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Yalta Conference
The Big Three met, The Yalta Conference which turned to be the beginning of the Cold War. -
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Cold War
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"Little Boy"
United States drops atomic bomb, "little boy" on Hiroshima. -
"Fatman"
United States drops atomic bomb, "Fatman" on Nagasaki. -
Japan Surrenders
Japanese surrender ending World War 2. -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill delivers Iron Curtain speech. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signs the Economic Recovery Act later known as Marshall Plan. This made the U.S. help with postwar damage in recovery for Europe economically. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union wanted Berlin so they closed all highways, railroads and canals from western Germany into western Berlin. -
Soviet Union first tests
Soviet Union tests first atomic bomb. -
Warsaw
Warsaw pact created, this putting Soviet Union in command of armed forces in a defence agreement with seven of its European satellites. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam war begins -
Sputnik
Soviet Union launches the world’s first artificial satellite. -
Bays of Pigs
Launched an invasion of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
A wall is built between east and west Berlin. -
Prague Spring
Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact members invaded Czechoslovakia to halt reforms. -
Extends to Cambodia
President Nixon extends Vietnam war to Cambodia. -
Defeat
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces. -
Fall of the wall
East German Communists announced their citizens could cross and they certainly did with the falling of the Berlin wall. -
Fall of Communist Government
Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania decline of the Soviet empire. -
Down with the Soviet Union
Fall of the Soviet Union and ending of the Cold War.
