| 676086894 | Iron Curtain Speech | 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. | |
| 676086896 | Cairo Declaration | Agrees to issue the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam that will serve as a general guidance for Member States in the Field of human rights. | |
| 676086898 | Tehran Conference | The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. | |
| 676086900 | Yalta Conference | The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. To some extent, it has remained controversial. | |
| 676086902 | Potsdam | Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. | |
| 676086904 | Bretton Woods Agreement | The year was 1944. For the first time in modern history, an international agreement was reached to govern monetary policy among nations. | |
| 676086907 | Dumbarton Oaks Conference. | The Dumbarton Oaks Conference or, more formally, the Washington Conversations on International Peace and Security Organization was an international conference at which the United Nations was formulated and negotiated among international leaders. | |
| 676086909 | United Nations Charter | The Charter of the United Nations is the foundational treaty of the international organization called the United Nations. | |
| 676086911 | Universal Declaration Of Human Rights | (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. | |
| 676086913 | Berlin Blockade | The Berlin blockade (24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. | |
| 676086915 | Berlin Airlif | At the end of WWII, a defeated Germany was divided amongst the victors, the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany, the Western half was divided amongst the US, Great Britain, and France. | |
| 676086917 | Truman Doctrine | The Truman Doctrine, which President Harry S. Truman issued in March 1947, was the basis of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union until 1991. | |
| 676086920 | Marshall Plan | Marshall Plan or European Recovery Program, project instituted at the Paris Economic Conference to foster economic recovery in certain European. | |
| 676086922 | National Security Act | was an Act of Congress signed by President Truman on 26 July 1947, which realigned and reorganized the U.S. Armed Forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II. | |
| 676086924 | NATO | An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. | |
| 676086926 | Warsaw Pact | The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance. | |
| 676086927 | Soviet Atomic Bomb | was a clandestine research and development program begun during and post-World War II, in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the United States and British nuclear project. | |
| 676086928 | A-Bomb | The Cold War. The first Russian Atomic Bomb. The seeds of hostility between the United States and the USSR began near the end of World War. | |
| 676086929 | H-Bomb | The first thermonuclear ("hydrogen") bomb test released the same amount of energy as ..... During the Cold War. | |
| 676086930 | Sputnik | Sputnik, meaning "satellite" and roughly translated as "fellow traveler," was ... Union and helped propel the rapid acceleration of the Cold War nuclear arms race. | |
| 676086931 | Korean Conflict | Korean Conflict While not directly committing forces to the conflict, the Soviet Union provided material aid to both the North Korean and Chinese armies. | |
| 676086932 | Korean Armistice | The Korean Armistice Agreement is an agreement signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr., representing the United Nations Command and North Korean General Nam Il, representing the North Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. | |
| 676086933 | East German Uprising | Soviet forces however remained in East Germany throughout the Cold War, and in 1953 they helped the GDR police to suppress a popular uprising. | |
| 676086934 | Hungarian Revolution | was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. | |
| 676086935 | Second Berlin Crisis | May 1959, US has six months to get out of Berlin or there will be war. Eventually, Khruschev meets with Eisenhower and they agree to a summit conference. | |
| 676086936 | Cuban Revolution | (1958) A political revolution that removed the United States supported Fugencio Batista from power. The revolution was led by Fidel Castro who became the new leader of Cuba as a communist dictator. | |
| 676086937 | Operation PBSuccess | A covert operation organized by the United States Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala). Put Col. Carlos Enrique Castillo Armas into power. | |
| 676086938 | Bay Of Pigs | An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. | |
| 676086939 | Cuban Missile Crisis | The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba | |
| 676086940 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | |
| 676086941 | Nikita Khrushchev' | The leader of the Soviet Union following Stalin ruling from 1953-1964. He created the Cuban Missile Crisis, and favored a peaceful co-existence with the west. | |
| 676086942 | Harry Truman | President of the US after Roosevelt's death; approved the use of the atomic bomb against Japan. | |
| 676086943 | Dwight Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School. | |
| 676086944 | John F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 676086945 | Khrushchev's Visit to USA | His visit was during 1959. He visited for a two week tour and a meeting with the President of the United States who was President Eisenhower. | |
| 676086946 | Leonard Brezhnev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Khrushchev; tightens government control, Ussr leader in 1964. | |
| 676086947 | Operation Ajax | (1953) The British and the CIA reinstate the Shah of Iran in order to protect oil interests after the Iranians tried to nationalize their oil. | |
| 676086948 | Pahlavi Dynasty | The name of the dynasty that ruled Iran between 1921 and 1979. Reza Pahlavi (1921-41) the founder of the monarchy and the initiator of Iran's development during the twentieth century. Muhammad Pahlavi second ruler (1941-79). | |
| 676086949 | Espionage Act | fines and imprisonment for aiding the enemy or hindering U.S. military; forbade any form of criticism of the government and military. | |
