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A Freezing War of Politics

  • Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference was a conference between the US, represented by Harry Truman, Britain, Winston Churchill, and The Soviet Union,Joseph Stalin. The conference was a discussion to figure out post-war Europe and the division of Germany.
  • US refuses to show nuclear secrets to the Soviets

    The US had already dropped 2 nucler bombs on Japan. Now the Soviets were asking them how to develop the nuclear weaponary, but the US refused to give it to them because they feared the Soviets would use it on them and the secrets would fall into the wrong hands.
  • Berlin Airlfit

    The Berlin Airlift was a plan by the US to aid Berlin who was isolated form the rest of the world to drop care packages on the Westen Berlin to give them food and supplies.
  • Korean War

    The Korean War was fought bewtween North ans Siuth Korea over Capitalism and Communism. The war began at the 38th parallel and after Us and Chinese help it ended up right back at the 38th parallel.
  • Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was started in early 1945 when North Vietnam and South Vietnam fought over Communism and Capitalism. North-Communism, South-Captalism. We helped South Vietnam throughout the long lasting war and spent tons of money just to loose the war.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviets had missiles in cuba aimed at the united states and we obviously did not appreciate that so we put missiles in turkey and greece to counter it. In the end we both took our missiles out of the countries.
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    As the United States expanded their Capitalist influence further into the middle east the Soviets thought they needed to do something about it, so they pushed out the iran westernized ruler and invaded afghanistan.
  • US Olympic Victory

    The US hockey team beat the Soviet hockey team in a game that will be remembered forever. The US hokcey team did the unthinkable and beat team Russia giving the United States hope that was lost during the cold war.
  • Fall of communism

    As the cold war ended and the soviet union turned into russia the united states won. Communism fell and has never returned in russia.
  • Gulf War

    The Gulf War was a breif war fought between NATO and Iraq due to Iraq's leader Saddan Hussein blaming the United Emerates for disrupting oil trade in the world.