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Yalta Conference
This was the start of the cold war. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
This was a turning point in post World War 2 Europe. -
NATO is formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed between Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, its goal was to stop communism from spreading. -
Korean War
This is when the conficlt became tense between the Soviet Union and US. -
Warsaw Pact
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Space race
This is where the US and Soviets had an intense rivalry about space and who can get the farthest first. -
U-2 Reconnaissance Plane
This is where the US's CIA had a plane trying to spy on the Soviets and the Soviets shot it down and this lead to an embarrassing conference between US and Soviets. (Embarrassing for the US) -
Bay of Pigs
This where the US tried to invade Cuba but failed miserably, this embarrassed the US. -
Reagan visits the Wall
This when Reagan visited the Berlin Wall, this showed continued commitment to the people of West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the the closest to the US and the Soviets actually fighting. This includes nuclear warfare also. -
JFK Assassination
JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder, but there was suspicions that there were communist or CIA complicity. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
This was one of the first steps to slow the arms race -
Vietnam war
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam, the victory of North Vietnam led the whole country to become communist. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The US and the Soviets each back a different side and this led to the US boycotting the 1980 Olympics. -
Govbachov leader of USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union -
Soviets retreat from Afghanistan
The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan -
Reunited Germany
This where East and west Germany reunited, East Germany was no longer Communist, and this was evidence that the War Saw Pact's days were ending. -
Velvet Revolution
Peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia to overthrow the communist government. -
Malta Summit
The meeting between Mikhail Gorbachov and George H W Bush. This is seen as the beginning of the end of the cold war. -
End of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries no longer existed. -
Gorbachev resigned
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The Soviet Union flag was lowered from the Kremlin. -
End of the Soviet Union
Russia formally recognized the end of the Soviet Union.