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Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was a controversial meeting. -
The End off World War II
This was the surender of japan and all other axis countries. The U.S and allies defeated the axis powers. -
The NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty organization. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are located in Haren, Brussels, -
Warsaw pact
Politcal and Millitary Alliance between the Soviet Union and several European countries. -
Soviet Union launch Satellite
The Soviets launched a satellite into space. This caused fear in the U.S. It made people in the states think they had no privacy and the Soviet Union was stealing our information. -
Castro takes control over Cuba
Fidel Castro takes over Cube and creates a communistic government. Castro now made ties with the Soviet Union. -
bay of pigs invasion
A fail miltary invasion of cuba. The failure was very huge as the U.S. didnt complete the objectives. -
Cuban Missle crisis began
The most notable event in the cold war, pitted the U.S and the USSR in a stand off on the brinl of WW3 and a nuclear war. The USSR had long range Nuclear weapons pointed at the U.S. -
Cuban Missle Crisis ends
JFK and the Soviet Union came to an agreement where the U.S would take their missle out of Turkey and Italy ,and Soviet Union would take their missle out of Cuba. -
China explodes its first atomic bomb.
This hould what weapons China had and ws great damage and horrors it could bring. -
Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising.
Soviet Union shows its power by destroing the Czech. This brought fear to the U.S. seeing such a power. -
South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.
South Vietnam surenders to the communist North. Thus ending the U.S. involvement in Vietnam War. -
U.S. and China establish diplomatic relations
The U.S government changed its diplomatic recognition of Chinese government from Taipei to Beijing. Understandably so, the Taiwanese people were angered by the “betrayal” of the US Government. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of Soviet Union
As leader of the USSr Mikhail Gorbachev, declared glasnost and perestroika. Perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the Communist Party. Glasnost was the name for the social and political reforms to bestow more rights and freedoms upon the Soviet people. -
Hammer and Sickle lowered for the last time
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the USSR. This was the end of the USSR and there threat to the U.S.
