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| Yalta Conference | 1945-FDR, Churchill and Stalin met in the Soviet Union. They agreed to divide up German and Stalin agreed to free elections in the Eastern European nations.,  |
| Berlin Airlift | Truman sent food and supplies to West Berlin to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. |
| Potsdam Conference | Harry Truman and Clement Atlee met Joseph Stalin to determine the fate of Easter Europe. Germany was divide into four zones. Stalin prevents free elections in Poland & Eastern Europe.,  |
| “Iron Curtain” | statement made by Winston Churchill describing the division of Europe between Communism and Democracy,  |
| Containment | taking measures to stop the spread of communism. US foreign policy |
| Mashall Plan | 1947--Sec. of State George Marshall proposed to give money to European who needed to rebuild after WWII, 13 billion in total. |
| Satellite nations | countries dominated by the Soviet Union.,  |
| Truman Doctrine | US gave 400 million to Greece and Turkey to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.,  |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization – 12 members pledged military support to prevent the spread of Soviet communism |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance between seven Eastern European nations. The Soviet Union was the primary member. |
| Berlin Blockade | June 1948 - Stalin closed all high way and rail routes into W. Berlin. It lasted 5 weeks. |
| August 1949 | Soviet Union detonates atom bomb |
| November 1, 1952 | US detonates first Hydrogen bomb,  |
| August 12, 1953 | Soviet Union detonates Hydrogen bomb,  |
| March 1, 1954 | US detonates Hydrogen bomb, |
| USSR | United Republic of the Soviet Union--Russian and it's satelite countries, .jpg) |
| Joseph Stalin | After Lenin, he was a brutal, totalitarian leader, named the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1922-1953). He ruled the former Soviet Union as as dictator after 1930, eliminating political opponents in a series of purges and causing nationwide famine with his collectivist agricultural policy.After World War II, he extended Soviet control over most of Eastern Europe.,  |
| Vladmir Lenin | Vladimir Lenin--Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later renamed the Communist Party), which seized power in the October phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. After the revolution, Lenin headed the new Soviet government that formed in Russia. He became the leader of the USSR upon its founding in 1922. Lenin held the highest post in the Soviet government until his death in 1924, when Joseph Stalin assumed power.,  |
| Karl Marx | German political philosopher and revolutionary, the most important of all socialist thinkers and the creator of a system of thought called Marxism. With political economist Friedrich Engels, he founded scientific socialism; the term that captures the Marxist philosophy is didatic materialism.,  |
| Sputnik | 1958--the Soviet Union was the first nation to send a satellite into space.,  |
| Manhattan Project | In 1942, a group of scientists headed by Robert Oppenheimer was created to develop the atom bomb which was instrumental in ending World War II; the project was begun at the University of Chicago and culminated in 1945 with a successful test at Los Alamos, New Mexico. |
| Operation Ajax | A CIA staged coup that removed Mohammed Mosaddeq, the democratically elected Iranian prime minister who Nationalized Iranian oil, in 1953 and replaced by the Shah (king). This coup was supported and funded by the British and U.S. governments. |
