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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference led to the Cold War because it gave the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe. -
Communist sieze power in Poland
Poland was one of the first countries that the Soviet Union took into communist force. -
Truman Doctrine announced
The Truman Doctrine provided Turkey and Greece with military aid and economic aid after the Ottoman Empire collapsed during WWII. -
NATO established
NATO was a defensicve measure to protect the US and their Western allies from the Soviet Union -
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb
This was important because it was a realization that the war could become a nuclear war. -
U.S. and U.N. fight Korean War
The Korean War was the first armed war in the Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact was formed
The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Unions retaliation against NATO. -
Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba
Fidel Castro was the first communist leader in the Western hemisphere. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs incident sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
East Germany builds Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall divded Germany between Russia and America. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis proved the the Soviet Union was not affraid of making the Cold War into a nuclear war. -
South Vietnam falls to communist forces
North Vietnam, which was taken over by the USSR, overthrew South Vietnam and made it communist. -
Tiananmen Square protest
This was a student led protest agianst the communist leadership in china. The massacre took place on June 4, 1989. -
Berlin Wall demolished
The collapse of the Berlin Wall symbolized the collapse of communism in Europe during the time of the Cold War. -
Reunification of Germany
Germany represented the "home" of communism so when Germany was reunified it was clear that communism would be over. -
Soviet Union is abolished
The fall of the Soviet Union split the USSR into fifteen seperate countires. The fall of the USSR represented freedom and no more communism in Europe.
