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Period: to
Cold War Events
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World war II Ends
End of American-Soviet Cooperation -
Berlin Blockade
Used by Soviets to block western alies from trandsporting goods, forcing them to airlift resources in. -
Marshall Plan
Contain communist expansion -
Creation of NATO
North American Treaty Agreemant -
Korean War
Begins after USSR fails to show up for a vetoin the UN, starting the first proxy war. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty Between 8 Comunist countries. -
Peacefull co-existance
Khrushchev callls for peaceful co-existance -
Hungarian Uprising
This liberation movement is crushed by warsaw pact -
Berlin Wall built
Used to block expansionism of democracy into eastern Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Feud between Soviets and America where the threat of use of nuclear weapons was high. -
The Prague Spring
Ends when Soviet Union invades -
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
Signed -
Helsinki Accords
Provide a degree of detente during cold war -
Vietnam War end
Failure of containment and the domino theory -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Increases hostilities -
Solidaruity Trade Union
Organizes pro-democracy movement in poland -
Berlin wall taken down
Eat Soviet Germans were allowed to cross to West American controlled Germany -
Warsaw pact sissolves
Some members seek NATO -
START Signed
Reduce numbers of nuclear weapons being created as a form of deterance -
Soviet Union ceases to exist
End of cold war
