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My name is Stephen Thompson, I am the curator of this museum. My specialties are years 1945-1960 of the Cold War. I am a sophomore at Clear Springs

Highschool, and in Mr. Collins 5th period.

Stephen Thompson

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http://www.history.com/photos/world-war-ii-political-leaders/photo4

The Yalta Conference occurs, deciding the post-war status of

Germany. The Allies of World War II (the USA, the USSR, Great

Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. The

Allied nations agree that free elections are to be held in all countries occupied by Nazi

Germany. The League of Nations was also created.

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Yalta Conference

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In occupied Germany, leaders from the Soviet Union, the United

Kingdom and the United States gathered to decide how to

administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier The goals of the

conference also included the establishment of post-war order,

peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of the war.

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Potsdam Conference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChineseCivilWarCollage.PNG

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between forces

loyal to the government of the Republic of China and forces of the

Communist Party of China. The war represented an ideological split between the Communist CPC, and

the KMT's brand of Nationalism. The two parties formed a Second

United Front to counter a Japanese invasion. China's full-scale civil war

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Chinese Civil War

On March 5, Winston Churchill warns of the descent of an Iron Curtain across Europe. The Iron Curtain

symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into

two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of

the Cold War in 1991. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were the countries

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Iron Curtain

http://www.coldwarstudies.com/2013/04/09/the-truman-doctrine-and-the-marshall-plan-a-podcast/

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program) was the

American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic

support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and

make Europe prosperous again.

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Marshall Plan

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President Harry S. Truman declared it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was

threatened by communism. His initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which

Congress approved. The Truman Doctrine was followed by the Marshall Plan later that year. Historians often

consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to

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Truman Doctrine

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Berlin was divided into four parts. The Berlin Airlift was when western countries delivered much needed

food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. They blocked all rail and road traffic to Berlin, the only option the western countries had

was to try and fly in all the supplies. Most of which was coal. It lasted 10

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Berlin Airlift

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In 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded by

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the

Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United

States, in order to resist Communist expansion. The members agreed that an armed attack against any one of them in Europe or North America

would be considered an attack against them all.

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NATO

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In 1949, With the spread of communism in Eastern Europe and China as well as the Korean War,

people were scared that communism could infiltrate the United States. The second Red

Scare occurred after World War II, People were scared of anyone who may side with the communists and

help the Soviets get secret information about the United

States.

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Red Scare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1

In August 29, 1949 The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. It

became known as Joe 1. The Soviet project to develop an atomic

bomb was a top secret research and development program begun

during World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian

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Soviet’s Atomic Bomb Testing

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/truman-signs-mutual-security-act

President Harry S. Truman signs the Mutual Security Act, announcing to the

world, and its communist powers in particular, that the U.S. was prepared to

provide military aid to "free peoples.“President Harry S. Truman,

which authorized nearly $7.5 billion, for foreign military, economic, and technical

foreign aid to American allies; the aid was aimed primarily at shoring up Western Europe, as the Cold War

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Mutual Security Act

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On January 21, 1954, The United States launches the world's first

nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus. The nuclear submarine would become the

ultimate nuclear deterrent. USS Nautilus was the world's first operational nuclear-powered

submarine. The vessel was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit to the North Pole on 3 August

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Nuclear Submarine

http://blogs.fas.org/security/2009/10/germany/

On May 14, 1955, The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It acts as the Communist military counterpart to NATO. The Warsaw Pact was primarily motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Warsaw Pact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

The Korean War was fought between South Korea and communist North

Korea. It was the first major conflict of the Cold War as the Soviet Union

supported North Korea and the United States supported South Korea. The war ended with little resolution. The countries are still divided today and North Korea is

still ruled by a communist regime. Supporting North Korea was the Soviet

Union and the People's Republic of China. Supporting South Korea was the

United States, Great Britain, and the United Nations.

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Korean War

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/229068/Geneva-Summit

Geneva Summit was held on July 18, 1955 and was a meeting of "The Big Four": President of the United States, Prime Minister of Britain, Premier of

the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister of France. The purpose was to bring

together world leaders to begin discussions on peace. The talks were

influenced by the common goal for increased global security. The stated mission of the 1955 summit was to

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Geneva Summit

http://pages.ramapo.edu/~theed/Cold_War/c_Khrushchev_era/b_Destalinaztion/bb_Suez_Crisis.html

The Suez Canal is an important man-made waterway in Egypt. It connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. In 1954

Gamal Abdel Nasser took control of Egypt. Nasser seized the canal and was going to charge for passage in order to pay for the Aswan Dam. The British, the French, and the Israelis decided to use the canal as a

reason to attack Egypt. They secretly planned that Israel would attack and seize the canal. Then the French and the British

would enter as peacekeepers taking control of the canal.

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Suez Crisis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik

On October 4, 1957, Sputnik satellite launched, it was the first

artificial Earth satellite to be launched. The Soviet Union

launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. The surprise success

triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. The launch ushered in new political, military,

technological, and scientific developments.

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Sputnik 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution

The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. The revolution began in July 1953, and finally

ousted Batista on 1 January 1959. Castro replaced his government

with a revolutionary socialist state. The Movement organization later

reformed, becoming the Communist Party in 1965.

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Cuban Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency

The Malayan Emergency was a guerrilla war, a form of warfare in which armed civilians use military tactics to fight a larger, traditional

military, fought between Commonwealth armed forces and the

Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the military arm of the

Malayan Communist Party (MCP) The Communists were defeated in 1960. Return to

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Malayan Emergency

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