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Yalta conference
Ending of WWII. Was hold in Yalta on February 4th - 11. The big three Frankin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill (Great Britain) and Josef Stalin (Soviet Union). Wanted to divide germany into parts.
The formation of the united nations was made. German war reparations and The entry of Soviet forces into the far-Eastern front. The future of poland. -
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Beginning and ends of cold war
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United States first use of the atomic bomb
United States dropped Little boy (atomic bomb) on Hiroshima august 6th. Then Fat Man over Nagasaki on August 9th. United States wanted a surrender of Japan and that how they got one. The effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki -
Japanese surrender End of World War II
After the millions lost of the atomic bomb Japan surrendered.Ending WWII. -
Berlin Blockade
The United States, French, British, and Soviet Union controlled Germany after the war. The Soviet Union was in the east and the United States had a little land in there. The Soviet Union didn't want to share the land with the United States so they shout down the roads and tried to kick the United States out of there. The United States had choices to run away or attack but there was a third option. For airplanes to drop of supplies above and stay in east Germany. -
Nato
After World War II the countries of Western Europe found themselves too weak politically and militarily to prevent the spread of the communist. NATO was officially established on April 4, 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. After the fall of communism the need for a military alliances diminished and NATO was transformed from a military force to a political force. -
Mao Zedong, a Communist, takes control of China
Marxist military and political leader, who led China's communist revolution after decades of foreign occupation and civil war in the 20th century. This freaked out the United States because China is one of t he biggest nations. -
Soviets explode first atomic bomb
America's monopoly on atomic weapons ended when President Truman announced, on September 23, that the Soviets had successfully detonated an atomic bomb. As a result, the nuclear arms race. -
Federal Civil Defense Administration established
In United States maney feared a nuclear strike from the Soviet Union. IN an attempt to prtect the people in such a scenario, the civl defense cmapaign emphasizing the use of the fallout shelters commenced. -
KGB
The KGB was the security agency of the Soviet Union. Which was involved in nearly all aspects of life in the Soviet Union. The goals and tasks were intelligence in other nations, counterintelligence and the secret police, KGB military corps and the Border Guards. Also suppression of internal resistance and eldectronic espionage. They did a lot more work like assistance in governing the soviet Union and secret operations. -
Warsaw Pact formed
It was a treaty of friendship cooperation and mutual assistance. The treaty was a mutual defense to by eight communist states in eastern Europe. It was a response to integration of nato pact. -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro made Cuba communist. Which freaked out the United States having a communist -
U.S. spy plane was shot down
The U-2 flight was soon after the plane was detected. Lieutenant General of the Air Force Yevgeniy Savitskiy ordered the air-unit to attack the violator by all alert flights located in the area of foreign plane's course. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The CIA has a mission to invade Cuba. They failed. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The city of berlin became a centerpiece of the Cold war. East met West in this divided city where the Berlin wall was a tangible symbol of the iron curtain. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet goverment began to surreptitiously build bases in Cuba for a number of nuclear missiles. Cuba had the ability to strike most of the continental United States. So the United States and Soaviet union aggred to remove unclear missiles from italy, turkey and Cuba. That was the end of the crisis. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of tonkin. The destroyer USS Maddox, while performin a destoto patrol, was engaged by three north vietnamese Navy torpedo squadron. over shells which invilved the strafing from four usn f 8 crusader jer fighter bombers. one us aircraft was damaged. -
Cease Fire in vietnam
Intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War, ended direct U.S. military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between north and south. -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
United states and the USSR signed a declaration on international guarantees, stating they would both refrain from any from of intference and intervention if Afghanistan. Over 50,183 foreigh troops had with drawn another 50,100 left between 15 august 1988 and february 1989. The total withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan was completed on 15 February 1989. -
Berlin Wall falls
The Fall of the Berlin Wall, which will always be used as a symbol for the end of the Cold War. Communist system but they failed. -
Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
Yeltsintransformed Russia's socialist command economy into a free market economy.
