LibGuides: United States History: Post WW2

Post-World War II

Nuremberg Trials
After World War II, the trials of the 24 chief Nazi war criminals November 1945-October 1946 by an international military tribunal consisting of four judges and four prosecutors...
Yalta Conference
The Yalta conferees confirmed the policy adopted at the Casablanca Conference of demanding Germany's unconditional surrender...
Foreign Aid
Economic, military, technical, and financial assistance given on an international, and usually intergovernmental level...
Potsdam Conference
Meeting (July 17–Aug. 2, 1945) of the principal Allies in World War II (the United States, the USSR, and Great Britain) to clarify and implement agreements previously reached at the Yalta Conference...
United Nations
Association of states for international peace, security, and cooperation, with its headquarters in New York City. The UN was established on 24 October 1945 by 51 states as a successor to the League of Nations...

The Cold War

Cold War
Ideological, political, and economic tensions from 1945 to 1989 between the USSR and Eastern Europe on the one hand and the USA and Western Europe on the other...
Communism
Fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common...
Espionage
The act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another...
Propaganda
Systematic manipulation of public opinion, generally by the use of symbols such as flags, monuments, oratory, and publications...
Socialism
General term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods.
Karl Marx
Marx was born in Trier, then part of Prussia, on 5 May 1818, and died in London on 14 March 1883...
Red Scare
Campaign against communists (called ‘reds’) in the USA during the 20th century, and associated atmosphere of suspicion and fear...

Cuba

Cuba
Officially Republic of Cuba, republic...
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government...
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 1962 when Soviet rockets were installed in Cuba and US president John F Kennedy compelled Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, by military threats and negotiation, to remove them...

Soviet Union

Soviet Union
(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) Former federal republic, successor to the Russian Empire and the world's first communist state...
Russian Revolution
Violent upheaval in Russia in 1917 that overthrew the czarist government...

Germany

Germany
Ger. Deutschland, officially Federal Republic of Germany, republi...
Berlin Airlift
Following the defeat of Germany, Berlin was administered jointly by Britain, the USA, France, and the USSR. In June 1948 the USSR withdrew from the combined board and blockaded the city...
Berlin Blockade
The closing of entry to Berlin from the west by Soviet Forces from June 1948 to May 1949. It was an attempt to prevent the other Allies (the USA, France, and the UK) unifying the western part of Germany...
Berlin Wall
On November 11, 1958, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev declared the 1944 London Protocol invalid...

Publisher Collection titles

The Longman Companion to America, Russia and the Cold War 1941-1998
Surveys East-West relations, in all their manifestations, from the Grand Alliance of the Second World War to the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Though centered on the international policies of the USA and the USSR, the book throws light on almost every aspect of postwar international history.

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