The Beginnings of the Cold War - personal.tcu.edu

The Beginnings of the Cold War Big Three Conferences

Potsdam, July-August 1945 1943 Teheran, Yalta,

November-December February 1945 Churchills Iron Curtain Speech,

Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended

across the Continent. Harry S. Truman The Truman Doctrine, 1947

Containment China falls to Communism, summer 1949

Peoples Republic of China Mao Zedong

Chiang Kai-shek Republic of China Josef Stalin

Berlin Blockade and Airlift, June 21, 1948-May 11, 1949 The Berlin Airlift

The Hiss-Chambers Case, August 1948-January 1950 Richard Nixon

Alger Hiss Whitaker Chambers Election of 1948

The Soviets successfully test an atomic bomb, August 29, 1949. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Convicted of giving U.S. atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union, March 29, 1951. Executed by electrocution, Sing Sing Prison, June 19, 1953.

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy The Venona Intercepts

So, how many Soviet spies were in the U.S. At least 349 government at that time?

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Berlin Blockade The Alger Hiss Case The Rosenberg Case The McCarthy Controversy The Korean War

The Korean War The Korean War January 12, 1950U.S. Secretary of State

Dean Acheson stated that Americas defense perimeter in the Pacific did not include Korea. The Korean War

Dean Acheson The Korean War January 12, 1950U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson stated that Americas

defense perimeter in the Pacific did not include Korea. March-April 1950North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung visited Moscow. June 25, 1950North Korea attacked

South Korea. The Korean War The Korean War

Inchon The Korean War

The Korean War The Korean War Communist Atrocities