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The Yalta Conference was a meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February, 1945. They agreed that Germany would surrender unconditionally and to set up the United Nations. Stalin agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan.
Plans were made for the post-war society. Most of the agreements were kept secret at first.
President Truman publicly announced his decision to support H-Bomb development.
American's ego had everything to do with H-Bomb development. They couldn't take that the Soviet Union were equal in knowledge with the U.S. on pretty much everything. Truman announced the race to build the world's first "superbomb".
Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit, as such beginning the space age. The launch put the Soviet Union on top as the first to launch a man-made object into space.
It's a pressurized sphere made of aluminum alloy and has five primary scientific objectives: Test the method of placing an artificial satellite into Earth's orbit, provide information on the density of the atmosphere, test radio and optical methods of orbital tracking, determine the effects of radio wave propagation, and check principles of pressurization used on the satellites.
Apollo 11 was the first space mission that landed humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969, at 20:56 UTC. Armstrong was the first person to step onto the surface of the moon and for that his name is possibly the most memorable. Moon rocks were collected to bring back to Earth while on the mission.
Perhaps the most memorable event of the mission is the famous quote from Armstrong:
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
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Today, the Cold War has left its mark. Paranoia and a deep rooted dislike for Communism is in America's very blood. The Sputnik victory over America has left the U.S. with a competative streak to prove that America is better overall. McCarthyism has left American's with a distrust of anyone who seems out of the ordinary, and the government actually has a right to spy on one should one possess questionable traits. A well known example is the constant debate whether or not one is being watched or monitered from their cell-phone. There is also a form of McCarthyism going on at this moment, with the hatred of Muslims from the ISIS attack on Paris, and the older but still fresh in the minds of American's 9-11 attack of the Chamber of Commerce. The government can look into you, and upon inferences based on your internet searches, your background, your friends, they can determine whether or not you may be a threat to government safety and they have full perssion to take you out of the picture. Some officials are even going undercover to attempt to find bombers (a very contraversial topic for many people). The development of H-bombs has left a giant nulear hatchet above every human's head, a very real threat to security everywhere, and the Iron Curtain speech has left a permanant divider between "Real Americans" and "Others" (others usually being Communists).
The Cold War has left American's paranoid, and at constant unease with the Soviet Union. One might even wonder if the Cold War even officially ended at all.
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The anti-communist view meant to wheedle out the spies from among the good U.S. citizens. The Loyalty Program was established, and FBI agents could investigate all federal employees, and the rest of America's population. No one was actually proven to be a Soviet spy, but there were roughly 500 people accused of having questionable loyalties.
It had people paranoid that there would be spies everywhere..
After WWII Germany was divided between the East and the West. The capital of Berlin that was deep in the Soviet-controlled East Germany was equally divided. On August 13, East Germany permanently closed the border between the East and West sides of Berlin. Barbed wire fencing and and armed guards were used at first, and weeks later the wire fencing was enforced with concrete, and then a second fence was built in June, 1962.
Anyone who attempted to escape the wall was shot on sight. There were only around 100 people who actually died in the attempt to flee, but around 5,000 people managed to make across bydriving through the death strip, leaping out of buildings along the walls, or tunneling through.
Churchill was invited to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri and gave his speech with President Harry S. Truman listening to him on the platform. He begins be praising the U.S., and then he warned against the policies of the Soviet Union. He made points that Eastern Europe and the United States were very different indeed.
His speech was well taken by President Truman and other U.S. officials, but was called racist by Joseph Stalin from his comment of the "English-Speaking world".
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The Berlin wall was the most important event of the Cold War. It physically drew the line between the "democratic" side and the "soviet" side, which really made Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech not be a metaphor. By building the wall, the Soviet Union physically set up the curtain between the two governments, and made their position clear on how they would react to the people whom disagreed with their government ideas. It was made clear that the Soviet Union would react hostily towards civilians who didn't completely fall into their government, as proven by the "shoot escapees on sight" orders, and the nearly impenetrable wall. Because of this hostility, America was no longer in doubt about how the Soviet Union would react to the spreading democratic government ideals, and thus gave the U.S. an actual chance to fight back against a government was was the Yin to democracy's Yang.
Basically, the "Iron Curtain" Churchill had come up with had become a Contrete Wall meant to separate the governents and keep the people under their control, and because of this physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain, America could now act (not outright, of course, but could intervene without being accused of oppression).
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