Cold War

By mloube
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    Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

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    Potsdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

  • "Iron Curtain" Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Marshall Plan

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    Berlin Blockade/ Airlift

  • Comecon Created

  • NATO Established

  • China Becomes Communist

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    Korean War

  • Vietnam is Divided

  • KGB Established

  • DOmino Theory

  • Warsaw Pact Established

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    Vietnam War

  • Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

  • First Man in Space (Yuri Gagarin)

  • Bay of Pigs

  • First American in Space (Alan Shepard)

  • Berlin Wall Built

  • Cuban Missile crisis

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    Gulf of Tonkin Incident/ Resolution

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    Six Day War

  • Tet Offensive

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

  • Yom Kippur War

  • Nicaraguan Revolution

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Glasnost

  • Perestroika

  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • Poland Becomes Independent

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • Communist Governments in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria Fall

  • Germany Reunites

  • Boris Yeltsin Elected President of Russia

  • Warsaw Pact Ends

  • USSR Dissolved