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Yalta Confrenece
The meeting of the big three -
security council
The Security Council. Under the Charter, the Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security -
postdam confrence
was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II -
Arms Race
A competition to see who has the best armed forces. -
truman
US will provide all assistanc to all democratics in need. -
Marshall Plan
Money that the Us used to aid Eroupe -
Berlin Blockade
Attempt by the Soviet Union to block out other countries -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet forces divided and occupied Germany -
NATO
An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty -
korean war
Started when noth Korea ivaded South Korea -
Hydrogen bomb
A hydrogen bomb is different than a regular atomic bomb, like the ones the US dropped on Japan near the end of World War II -
joseph stalin dies
the beguinning of the end of he soviet union -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
He was named one of 5 men to be the new office. -
KGB
The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti was the main security agency for the Soviet Union -
vietnam war
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iron curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II -
Space Race
A competition to the first spaceflight. -
U-2 Incident
when a US spy plane was shot down. -
Mural Deterrence
The maintenance of peace between opposing sides by each having a sufficient strike capacity to deter the other from initiating armed conflict; also in extended use -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed ivasion of cuba. -
Berlin wall
German barrier -
Cubin Missile Crisis
Closest the cold war eve come to becoming a nuclear war -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Lasted over 9 years. -
IFN treaty
Eliminated all nuclear armed ground -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
he was elected president of the soviet union. -
German re-unification
Germany Joined the federal republic nation -
U.S.S.R Breakup
dissolved the soviet union into dependent republic -
Warsaw Pact
traty ws signed I warsaw -
super powers
When the war ended, the two super powers had very different ideas of how Europe should be restructured and they were the United States and the USSR
