Cw

cold war

By masen anders

  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations
    The senate approved the UN charter on july 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2 The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945 after 29 nations had ratified the charter.

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    decide what would happen to Europe and Germany after countries freed from Nazi rule.

  • Creation of the iron curtain

    Creation of the iron curtain
    Winston Churchill gave a speech declaring that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe, pointing to efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    to finalise a post-war settlement and put into action all the things agreed at Yalta.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.

  • Creation of Nato

    Creation of Nato
    to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    a 20th Century struggle between two nation-states, the Soviet Union and the United States

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    fought between communist North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, supported by the United States.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War
    The invasion triggered a brutal, nine-year-long Afghan civil war.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain.

  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union