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Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan otherwise known as the European Recovery Program, was an American initiative passed in 1948 to help out Western Europe in an economically unstable time, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, was also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named the Argonaut Conference was a meeting in WWII that consisted of the leaders of the US, the UK and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar situation -
Potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. The conference was made up of the US, UK, and the Soviet's. The conference was to decide to how go about dealing with Germany. -
Hiroshima bombing(little boy)
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, In order for the US to proceed with the bombings they needed consent from the UK in the Quebec Agreement -
Nagasaki bombing(fat man)
fat man was the nickname for the Nagasaki bomb and little boy was the name for the Hiroshima bomb -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 to get aid to the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union and suffered from the war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Brussels treaty
DescriptionThe Treaty of Brussels, also referred to as the Brussels Pact, was the founding treaty of the Western Union between 1948 and 1954, at which it point it was amended as the Modified Brussels Treaty and served as the founding treaty of the Western European Union until its termination in 2010. -
NATO
DescriptionThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Soviet creation of nuclear weapons
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Stalins death
Stalins death was a big part of the Cold War as his leadership was the main influence of Communism besides Karl Marx, after his death the heat of the Cold War cooled down -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Hungarian revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command, known until March 1981 as the North American Air Defense Command, is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America. -
Fidel Castro taking over
Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution. Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. ... In July 1953, they launched a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, during which many militants were killed and Castro was arrested. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (known as Berliner Mauer in German) was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. Its purpose was to keep disaffected East Germans from fleeing to the West. -
Bay of pigs
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligenice Agency -
End of Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a potential world ending political activity. The Cuban Missile crisis came to an end as a mem ever of the US government and a member from the Soviets met behind to scenes to come to a consensus that the Soviets will take their missiles away if the US take their ships away -
Nuclear arms treaties
The treaty defines nuclear-weapon states as those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device before 1 January 1967; these are the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China. ... Critics argue that the NPT cannot stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons or the motivation to acquire them. -
Afgan war
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. -
Solidarity in Poland
The history of Solidarity, a Polish non-governmental trade union, began on August 14, 1980, at the Lenin Shipyards at its founding by Lech Wałęsa and others. In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. -
Czech revolution(Velvet Revolution)
The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
· The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
End of Cold War
The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major roles in ending the Cold War.