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UKUSA agreement
The establishment of an alliance between 5-english speaking countries(America, Canada, new Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom) -
The Truman Doctrine
A doctrine designed to help countries financially who were threatened by communism. -
Soviet Blockade of the Berlin wall
Response of communism in Western Germany -
Atomic Bomb
soviots test first atomic bomb -
Korean war
The Korean war was a cause of the cold war -
The warsaw pact
- treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. Treaty of friendship between these countries
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Sputnik
sputnik is launched. -
Vietnam war
It was supported by anti communist nations -
U-2 plane shut down over the USSR
Soviet Union shot down plane. The pilot was safely ejected from the plane. -
The Bay of Pigs
US attempt to invade Cuba – US wanted to overthrow Fidel Castro, but they failed -
Period: to
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest that the world ever came to entering a nuclear war.- Nuclear missiles were installed and US troops were ready for anything -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was launched -
President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative
Ronald raegan created this system to help protect America from NBM(Nuclearer Ballistic Missles) during the cold war -
INF(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces)
The U.S and the sovit union sighned a treaty to ban all short range nuclearer missles. -
Ronald Reagan Speech
Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Soviet Union supporting Marxinest in Afghanistan -
Fall of Communism
Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania. -
Tiananmen Square protests
Protesets in china because of the death of Hu Yoabang resulting in many deaths -
Germany Reunites
The GDR and FRG start a treaty to reunit germany and berlin. -
Boris Yelstin
First elected president of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic -
Cold War Ends
Russia and the US end the cold war
