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Tehran Conference
the main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the Western Allies' commitment to open a second front against Nazi Germany. -
Yalta Conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. -
Postdam Conference
At this conference Truman informed Stalin that the United States possessed a powerful new weapon. A week later US bombed Hiroshima. -
Surrender Of Japan
On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Late in the evening of August 8, 1945, in accordance with the Yalta agreements, but in violation of the Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and soon after midnight on August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union invaded the Imperial Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. Later that same day, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb, this time on the Japanese city of Naga -
Cold War begins...
The Cold War was a non violent war, almost as a race to greatness, against the United States and the Solviet Union. It was also a political and militaristic state of tension between the two. -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold Wa -
Marshall Plan
this helped rebuild western europe with the aid of the united states, to combat the economic instability. -
NATO established
Britain, France, the United States, Canada and eight other western European countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty of April 1949, establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
Hungary Rev.
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 occurred shortly after Khrushchev arranged the removal of Hungary's Stalinist leader Mátyás Rákosi -
USSR launches first ballistic missile
In August 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) -
Sputnik is launched into space.
The launch of Sputnik inaugurated the Space Race -
Berlin wall built
East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded through construction into the Berlin Wall. keeping non industrialized peoploe from the west from coming into the better east side. -
Cuban missile crisis
this was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba -
Brezhnev Doctrine
brezhnev outlined the Brezhnev Doctrine, in which he claimed the right to violate the sovereignty of any country attempting to replace Marxism–Leninism with capitalism. -
Fall of the berlin wall
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Cold War ends.
glasnost weakened the bonds that held the Soviet Union together and by February 1990, with the dissolution of the USSR looming, the Communist Party was forced to surrender its 73-year-old monopoly on state power. this fall eased much of tension which brings the cold war to an end.
