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Part of the Cold War The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939-45), between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, led by the United States. Although the primary participants' military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed

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Cold War The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939-45), between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, led by the United States. Although the primary participants' military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed
Participants NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ); French: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique Nord (OTAN)), also called "the (North) Atlantic Alliance", is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of · Non-Aligned Movement The Non-Aligned Movement is an international organisation of states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The movement is largely the brainchild of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, former president of Egypt Gamal Abdul Nasser and Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It was founded in April 19 · SEATO The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization , was an international organization for collective defense created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty or the Manila Pact, which was signed on September 8, 1954. The formal institution of SEATO was established at a meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok in February 1955. It was primarily created to · Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was a group of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was the military equivalent of CoMEcon (the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance). The Warsaw pact was signed on May 14, 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. The pact was created so that if any country in the pact were to be the victim of aggression, the other countries in the
1940s Yalta Conference The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, · Operation Unthinkable Operation Unthinkable was a British plan to attack the Soviet Union. The creation of the plan was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and developed by the British Armed Forces' Joint Planning Staff at the end of World War II · Potsdam Conference The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 16 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston · Gouzenko Affair Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945 with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West · Iran crisis of 1946 The Iran crisis in 1946 stemmed from a Soviet refusal to relinquish Iranian territories occupied by the Red Army since 25 August 1941. The Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was known to harbor pro-German sympathies[citation needed], so, after the German invasion of the USSR in June 1941, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union occupied Iran as a · Chinese Civil War · Greek Civil War The Greek Civil War was fought from 1946 to 1949 between the Greek governmental army, backed by Britain and the USA, and the Democratic Army of Greece (DSE), the military branch of the Greek Communist Party (KKE). It was the result of a highly polarized struggle between leftists and rightists which started from 1943 and targeted the power vacuum · Restatement of Policy on Germany "Restatement of Policy on Germany" is a famous speech by James F. Byrnes, then United States Secretary of State, held in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946 · First Indochina War The First Indochina War was fought in French Indochina from December 19, 1946, until August 1, 1954, between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps, led by France and supported by Bảo Đại’s Vietnamese National Army against the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp. Most of the fighting took place in · Truman Doctrine The Truman Doctrine is a set of principles of U.S. inland policy created on March 12, 1947 by President Harry S Truman. In his speech to Congress, Truman declared that the United States, as "leader of the free world", must support capitalism worldwide and fight against communism. The approach was conceived with the help of George · Marshall Plan · Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 · Tito–Stalin split · Berlin Blockade The Berlin Blockade, also known as the "German hold-up"[citation needed] was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first cold war international crisis that resulted in a casualty. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road · Western betrayal Western betrayal or Yalta betrayal are terms often used in many Eastern and Central European countries but especially in Poland and the Czech Republic which refers to the foreign policy of several Western countries, which violated allied pacts and agreements during the period from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 through World War II and to the · Iron Curtain The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological 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 either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances: · Eastern Bloc The terms Eastern Bloc, Communist Bloc or Soviet Bloc were used to refer to the former Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, including the countries of the Warsaw Pact, along with Yugoslavia and Albania, which were not aligned with the Soviet Union after 1948 and 1960 respectively
1950s Korean War The term Korean War refers to the warfare between North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea, ROK), which began on 25 June 1950 and paused with an armistice signed 27 July 1953 · 1953 Iranian coup d'état · Uprising of 1953 in East Germany The Uprising of 1953 in East Germany took place in June 1953. A strike by East Berlin construction workers on June 16 turned into a widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government the next day. The uprising in Berlin was violently suppressed by tanks of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany and the Volkspolizei. In · 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état · Partition of Vietnam The Partition of Vietnam was the establishment of the 17th parallel as the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone in 1954, splitting Vietnam into halves after the First Indochina War · First Taiwan Strait Crisis The First Taiwan Strait Crisis was a short armed conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments. PRC seized the Yijiangshan Islands, forcing ROC to abandon the Tachen Islands. The United States and ROC Navies joined forces to evacuate ROC military personnel and civilians from the · Geneva Summit (1955) The Geneva Summit was first held on July 18th, 1955 in Geneva, Switzerland. This was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of the United Kingdom, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. They were accompanied by the · Poznań 1956 protests The Poznań 1956 protests (also known as Poznań 1956 uprising or Poznań June ) were the first of several massive protests of the Polish people against the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland. Demonstrations by workers demanding better conditions began on June 28, 1956, at Poznań's Cegielski Factories and were met with · Hungarian Revolution of 1956 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Stalinist government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956 · Suez Crisis The Suez Canal was opened in 1869, having been financed by the French and Egyptian governments. Technically, the area surrounding the canal proper was sovereign Egyptian territory, and the operating company, the Universal Company of the Suez Maritime Canal was an Egyptian-chartered company · Sputnik crisis The Sputnik crisis was a turning point of the Cold War that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 1 satellite. The United States had believed itself to be the world leader in space technology and thus the leader in missile development. The surprise of the Sputnik launch and the failure of the first two U.S. launch · Second Taiwan Strait Crisis The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC shelled the islands of Matsu and Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait in an attempt to seize them from the Republic of China · Cuban Revolution · Kitchen Debate · Asian-African Conference · Bricker Amendment · McCarthyism · Operation Gladio · Hallstein Doctrine
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