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Fidel Castro taking over
The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organization. -
Yalta conference
The Allied forces could see
that the Second World War would soon
end and the “Big Three” (Soviet Union,
Britain, Soviet Union) met at Yalta (on the
Black Sea) to plan their remaining wartime
actions and the future for postwar Europe. -
Potsdam conference
US pres. Harry Truman and SU’s
Stalin met with Britain’s Churchill and his
successor Clement Attlee in Potsdam,
Germany.
These leaders agreed on such things as
reparations to be made and the restructuring of
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Hiroshima bombing
US wished to prevent any possibility that the Soviet Union would occupy Japan whilst the US troops were still far away and so consolidate Soviet influence. So the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
US dropped nuclear bomb on Nagasaki because it was a blatantly wanton act. ... World War II reached its savage end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki only to spawn the dawn of a dangerous nuclear age.
Us dropped two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. -
Molotov plan
It was created to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Brussels Treaty
The treaty provided for the organization of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation among member states, as well as a mutual defense clause. -
Marshall plan
It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. The brainchild of U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall, for whom it was named, it was crafted as a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure heavily damaged during the war and to remove trade barriers between European neighbors – as well as foster commerce between those countries and the United States. -
Berlin Block aid
This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
It was created between Canada and US to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons
That was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.After Stalin learned of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the program was pursued aggressively and accelerated through effective intelligence gathering. -
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Korean war
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. ... Afraid that the US was interested in taking North Korea as a base for operations against Manchuria. -
Stalin's death
the second leader of the Soviet Union, died on 5 March 1953 at the aged of 74 after suffering a stroke. After four days of national mourning, Stalin was given a state funeral and then buried in Lenin's Mausoleum on 9 March. -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
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Vietnam war
The Vietnam War revolve around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. Neither the Soviet Union nor the United States could risk an all-out war against each other, such was the nuclear military might of both. -
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Hungarian Revolution
Khrushchev's policy of 'de-Stalinisation' caused problems in many Eastern European Communist countries, where people hated the hard-line Stalinist regimes that Russia had put in place. -
NORAD
The North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America. -
Bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Creation of the Berlin wall
It was build to to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. -
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End of the Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty. -
Nuclear Arms treaties
An international treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. The treaty has three main pillars: nonproliferation, disarmament, and the right to peacefully use nuclear technology. -
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Afghanistan / soviet war
In the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against a growing insurgency. -
Solidarity in Poland
Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members.It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. -
Berlin wall falling
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
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Czechoslovakia revolution
With the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy at the end of World War I, the independent country of Czechoslovakia was formed as a result of the critical intervention of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, among others. -
End of the Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies.The Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.