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Yalta Conference
Allied leaders, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, all meet up for a meeting and decided on division of Europe -
Berlin Blokade
Soviet Union blocked Allies' section to Berlin -
Marshall Plan
US's plan to aid Europe -
Berlin Airlift
Plan by Americans to airlift supplies and food to Berlin when Russia blocked Allies forces out of Berlin -
Arma Race
USA & USSR compete in building atomic bomb -
Russian Atomic Bomb
Russia tested its first atomic bomb -
Korean War
War between North Korea and Sounth Korea -
Hydrogen Bomb
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Died of stroke in Moscow -
East German riot
started with a strike by East Berlin construction workers and Within days, nearly a million East Germans joined the protests and began rioting across hundreds of East German cities and towns -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Sovient leader after Stalin's Death -
Open Skies
President Dwight D. Eisenhower presents his "Open Skies" plan at the 1955 Geneva summit meeting with representatives of France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. -
Space Race
The Space Race between USSR vs USA -
Soviets Develop Hydrogen Bomb
President Harry S. Truman shocked the world when he announced that the Soviet Union had conducted a successful test of an atomic weapon the month before. -
U2 spy plane Developed
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. -
Hungary leaves warsaw pact
The military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist States of Central and Eastern Europe. -
Vietnam War
A war between communist North Vietnam and US-backed South Vietnam. -
U-2 Incident
U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
president kennedy gave cuban exiles orders to invade cuba and lead revolt -
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall was bulit to keep east Germans from fleeing to West german, but it was destroyed and East Germany allowed West Germany migrate independently. -
Truman Docrine
USA provided military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism -
Cuban missile Crisis
closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union. -
soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
a war fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. -
USSR Breakup
the collapse of the Sovient Union signaled the end of the cold war. -
INF Treaty
the first nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, rather than establish ceilings that could not be exceeded. -
Tianamen Squuare Massacre
Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. -
The battle of Cuito cuanavate, Angola
this battle lead the movement of powerful Cuban armed force, into the west, towards the Namibian border. The fighting in the south western part of Angola led to the withdrawal of the South African, ANC and Cuban presence in Angola, and to the Independence of Namibia. -
Boris yeltsin electeted to presidency of Russia
Boris Yeltsin was elected President of Russia after the fall of the USSR -
German Unification
German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to power
became a Gerneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
3AD deactivated In Germany
The division was stationed in West Germany for much of the Cold War, and participated in the Persian Gulf War.
