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Gouzenko Affair
He was a Soviet Spy ring and he was working in Canada. He was trying to steal nuclear secrets. He was the beginnging of the Cold war for public opinion. -
Yalta Conference
This was sometimes also called, Crimea Conference. And was World War II meeting of heads goverment.Yalta became the subject of intense controversy. -
NATO
The picture that goes with this is the flag of NATO. NATO's headquarters are in Brussel, Belgium. NATO also stands for North Atlantic treaty organization. -
COmmunist takeover Czechoslovakia
This was an expectation in Soviet Conquered Central and Eastern europe. Thid was not formially in the soviet orbit. American officials were concerned. -
WWII Ends
Germany and Japan were defeated. Japan defeated because of atomic bombs by the U.S. This war lasted from 1939- 1945, It involved great powers. -
United Nations
They met in San Francisco. It is an international organization. The united nation was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace League of Nations, to stop wars between countries. -
Grace Hopper
Invented the first computer bug.She was also an American computer scientist. She was one of the first complier for a computer programming language. -
United States first used atomic bomb in war
The first atomic bomb here changed the world. The Pacific war would receive full attention from the United states department. And uncondition surrender. -
Russia enters war against Japan
This began with the Soviet Invasion of the Japenese. The soviet union would enter the war against Japan. Also once Nazi Germany was defeated. -
Containment and Iorn Curtain
There was a lot of supsicion between West and USSR. after the war West had felt threatened. Communist seized power in Eastern Europe with the Red Army supporting them. -
Truman Plan
Was a policy set my the U.S president. And it would also support Greece and Turkey. He told the congress "to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." -
Marshall Plan
This was the American program aid to Europe. It gave support to Europe to rebuild economies after World War II. It is also to said as a rescue program. -
Berlin Airlift
This began after World War II. Berlin was occupied by the Soviet Zone. It carries supplies to West Berlin. -
Berlin Blackade
Was a major crisis of the Cold war. During this Germany and the Soviet Union blocked Western Allies railway, road, and canal access. -
Red Scare
The first Red Scare was about a worker. This was focused on national and foreign communist. This was a nation-wide anti radical hysteria provoked by mounting fear -
Apartheid
It was a system of th racial segergation. Came under British rule and was also and offical policy introduced following the general election of 1948. -
Tiananmen Square
Third largest City Square in the world. It is also in the center of Beijing China and located in the North. This is the best known recent memory at the focal point of the tiananmen square protests of 1989. -
Korean War
There was 75,000 North Korean soliders -
Vietnam War
More than 3 million people were killed in this war. This war followed the first Indochina war and fought between North Vietnam. -
Suez Crisis
Something that belonged to Britain and France. This attacked followed the president of egpyt Gamal Adbel Nassar's decision of July 26 1956. -
Hungarian Revolution
They were fighting against the Soviet Lots of hungarians went to and his lasted from october 23rd until November 1956. -
N.O.R.A.D
Most people though it was an Nuclear attack from Russia. This stood for North Amerian Aerospace Defense comand. This provides defense for two countries. -
Great Leap Forward
The plan started from Mao. From 1953 to 1963. -
U 2 Spy Plane Incident
At first the United States denied this, but then was forced to admit it -
OPEC
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. This was organized by the Baghdad conference. -
Bays of Pigs
An unsuccessful invasion in Cuba. This was also undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Between Soivet and Cuba. Was also known as the October crisis in Cuba and carribbean crisis. It was one of the major confrontations of the cold war. -
Ayatollah Khomenini
He had made spme speeches, and Ayatollah has also been arrested a couple times. He became politically active. -
Test Offensive
This was a military campign during the Vietnam War. This was launched January 30th 1968 by the forces of Vieet cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam. -
Watergate
Occured in the United States. Five men were arrested. The scandal resulted in indictment, trial, conviction, and incaration of forty three people. -
1972 Olympics
It was the second summer olympics to be held in Germany. This was also known as the games of XXX olympiad and was a international multi sport. -
Camp David Accords
This was signed by an Egyptian President, and it began after Jimmy Carter was president. -
Election of Rondald Reagan
When he was elected Jan 1st, there was arguments between Soviets and America, alot of tension. -
Afghanistan
The soviet invaded Afghanistan. -
Mulroney Government
Was the prime minister of Canada. -
Perestroika and Glasnast
This introduced changes in economic practice. The soviet union was engulfed by mulitple problems during this. In the 1980's. -
Berlin Wall
Surrounded East Germany. This was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that had started in August of 1961. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This stood until november 9th 1989. When they said anyone could cross the border when they want to. so i got knocked down. -
End of Soviet Union
Was dissolved in december. Declare office extinct. The success of the United States against the Soviet Union's forces in the was of afghanastan led to a general feeling off discontent. -
Massacre
An incident where one group of people are killed by another. There is no clear-cut definition for when killings are referred to as. Happened as a choice to someone.
