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Yalta Conference
World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Geneva Accords
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. -
Arm Race
Arm Race was about the Nuclear and was competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
Vietnam Independence
Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam an independent republic. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts. -
Marshal plan
American Banker. United States gave over $13 billion to Europe -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin, the German capital city, was located deep in the Soviet zone, but it was also divided into four sections. -
Berlin Blockade
Was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
NATO
United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) during cold war -
Korean War
it began when 75,000 North Korean army cross the the boundary 38th parallel. it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Georgian-Soviet revolutionary, politician and political theorist. governed the Soviet Union from the mid 1920 until his death in 1953 -
Nakita Khrushchev
politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. -
Domino Theory
n Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam, and ultimately its increasing involvement in the long-running Vietnam War -
Vietnam war
Known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America. -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, USSR and USA -
Sputnik
first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
U-2 incident
U-2 incident was when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Leonid Brezhnev
He was (1960–64) chairman of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet, or titular head of state. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed Military invasion of Cuba. Was down in 2 days. -
Berlin Wall (start and completion of)
Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Cuban Missiles Crisis
Also known as the October crisis. 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union . -
Four Power Agreement Berlin
The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin. -
Carter President
Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States -
Soviet invasion Afghanistan
Insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
START
During a summit in Geneva Reagan proposed Strategic Arms Reduction Talks -
Olympic boycott by Russia
Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980. -
INF Treaty
name of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. -
German Unification
"blood and iron" and skillful understanding of realpolitik. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Former Soviet statesman. Eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, when the party was dissolved.
