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COLD WAR

By mk.starr

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    WW2 meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    Allowed the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations
    Was founded after Second World War by 51 countries. Committed to maintaining international peace and security while developing friendly relations among nations

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    An attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States

  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO
    Was founded as the aftermath of the Second War. It's purpose was to secure peace in Europe.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.

  • Creation of the Iron Curtain/Warsaw Pact

    Creation of the Iron Curtain/Warsaw Pact
    Described as the hard borders between Eastern Europe and the rest of the continent during the Cold War

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba :)

  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War
    Was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    Dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the USSR which resulted in the end of the country's

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Was a pivotal moment, escalating pressure from the people of eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border