United Nations October 1945 - On October 24th 1945, the united nations became the group they are known today. Representatives from 50 countries that are part of the united Nations met in Sa Fransisco at the United Nations conference. The conference was to structure the United Nations Charter.

"Iron Curtain" 1945 - The Iron Curtain was the "boundary" that had separated Europe into two separate areas that lasted until the end of the World War 2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The iron curtain had separated the Western Europe and Eastern Europe

The Marshall Plan - The European recovery program was an American program in 1948 to help Western Europe. The United States sent over $12 billion ($100 billion in todays money) to assist in rebuilding Western Europe economies after the end of WWII.

Berlin Airlift June 1948 - In rejoinder to the soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States started sending any supplies they could. For almost a year, supplies from American planes kept over 2 million people in West Berlin thriving.

Truman Doctrine July 1948 - With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Chinese Communism - The Communist Party of China (CPC). It is also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the peoples republic of China. They also control the largest armed forces army in the world, the peoples libertarian army.

Arms Race - Germany's attempt to surpass Britain fleet spilled over into World War I, while tensions after the war between the United States, Britain and Japan resulted in the first major arms limitation treaty at the Washington Conference. The winner of the race was the United States they where the first country out of the three to have the first nuclear weapon.

Military Alliances: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which took place in 1949 and the Warsaw Pact which took place in 1955. The NATO and Warsaw pact are known as the treaty of friendship because they brought countries together to create an alliance. NATO was a trade treaty between 29 European and American Countries. The warsaw pact included Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria.

Korean War - On June 25, 1950, the Korean War started when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army came across the 38th parallel. The line between the Soviet assisted Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military move of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s side.

Space Race - During the Cold War that began after World War II, the United States was bitterly engaged with the then Soviet Union in a battle that was not as much about fighting but about a conflict between political and economic ideologies. The United States, a capitalist power, and the Soviet Union, a communist power, were trying to prove the superiority of each respective system on the world stage. Both sides felt that the one who made the most advancement in the field of space exploration would gain a major advantage in the conflict.

Vietnam War – The Vietnam war was one of the longest wars of all time with the death toll coming to 3 million people with about 58 thousand of those being americans. The war was fought between North and South Korea with the united states on the south side. The war got worse during the cold war. In 1973 our former president nixon ended the war by removing our troops.

Berlin Wall- The Berlin wall was a barrier that divided Berlin,Germany into 2 parts east and west. The wall was made too block the refugees trying to escape east Berlin because they did not want to live under the powers of the soviet union. They started to move to the democratic west side when eventually the wall was taken down in 1989.