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cold war begins
Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three' Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. -
world war 2 ends
the japenese surrendered because on august 9th the us drooped the atomic bomb"fat boy" n it killed 70,000 -
wiston churchhill speech in fulton
the "iron curtain" descended across the contient of europe. behind that line all capitals of acient states of central europe all famous cities around them lie in the soviet sphere and ar subject to not onlly some soviet influence but also increasing control from mascow. -
policy of containment
the policyis used to keep communism within its existing boundaries and prevent further soviet aggressive moves containment became U.S. policy -
Rio pact
U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere -
berlin blockage
berlin blockade lasted 11 months it came to a end when lifts it bllockade against berlin it was broken by massive U.S. british airlift of vitl supplies to berlins 2 million citizens -
NATO was formed
the "NATO" the north atlantic treaty organization was formed in April 1949 when belgium, Luxenburg,Netherlands,great britain, Italy ,Denmark, ,Noorway, Portugal and Iceland all signed a treeaty with us and canada an it said they must ll provide mutual help if any one of them was attacked. -
korean war ends
U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. -
korean war begin
Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons -
launch of the sputnik
the sputnik was the worlds first artificial satelite -
north vietnam defeats south
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces -
withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanastan
The total withdrawal of all Soviet soldiers from Afghanistan was completed on 15 February 1989, in compliance with the terms of the Geneva Accords signed 10 months earlier. -
the cold war ends
when the soviet union was finaly ended it finally ended the cold war The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. -
The U.S. drops atomic bomb on hiroshima
the two kiloton atomic bomb was named the "little boy" it killed 80,000 people -
soviet union shot down us plane
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory