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Meeting to decide what would happenen when the war ended.
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Victory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian army.
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Germany, Austria and Korea divided and Russin Polish border was determined.
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United States dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a consecuence Japenese surrended bringing WW2 to an end.
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Vietnam became independent.
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Churchill said the famous phrase "iron curtain has descended on Europe."
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Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover.
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The United Estates offered economic aid to European countries with the aim of defeating Stalin.
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The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West.
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Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift.
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Russia ended the blockade of Berlin.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
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The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea
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Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
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The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA.
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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.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.
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Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalised by the Egyptian leader Nasser. The attack was heavily criticised by World leaders, especially America because Russia had offered support to Egypt. The British and French were forced to withdraw and a UN peace keeping force was sent to establish order.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt failed.
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles.
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Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but there has always been speculation that he was not a lone killer and that there may have been communist or CIA complicity.
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Nikita Krushchev removed from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
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150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam.
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Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as ‘Prague Spring’ instigated by Alexander Dubcek. After this Dubcek was arrested.
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US launched Apollo 8 – first manned orbit of the Moon and then landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.
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President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia.
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The Paris peace accords ended American involvement in Vietnam
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Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to the ‘Space Race’
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The Khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia. Any supporters of the former regime, anyone with links or supposed links to foreign governments as well as many intellectuals and professionals were executed in a genocide, this was called ‘killing fields’.
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North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The capture of Saigon by the North led to the whole country becoming Communist
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Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States
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Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan
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A number of countries including the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980.
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Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union
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An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history
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Mikhail Gorbachev announced his intention to follow a policy of glasnost – freedom of speech; and perestroika – restructuring of government and economy. He also advocated free elections and ending the arms race.
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the last soviet trops left Afghanistan
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Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count is unknown.
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The Berlin wall was torn down
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The Velvet Revolution, also known as the Gentle Revolution, was a series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the Communist government.
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It was a meeting between Mikhail Gorbachow and George H W. Because they reserved provisions of the Yalta Conference in 1945.In the beggining of the Cold War
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East and West Germany were reunited as one country
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The warsaw pact wich allied Communist countries was ended
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The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered
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Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union
