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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union -
Harry S. Truman becomes president of the USA
Harry S. Truman becomes th 33rd president of the United States
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VE Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. -
Mao Zedong comes to power
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Potsdam Conference
he Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
VJ Day
President Truman named September 2 to be VJ Day.On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was held in Tokyo Bay aboard the USS Missouri. -
WInston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. The Iron Curtain wasnt an actual curtain. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin -
Berlin Airlift
British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones. Same date as the blockade. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Berlin Bockade ends
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Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. -
Ho Chi Minh Comes to power
Ho Chi Minh becomes the Chairmanof the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. -
Truman is no longer in office
Harry Truman can no longer be president because he was in office for 8 years -
Eisenhower becomes president
Dwight David Eisenhower becomes the 34th president of the US after Truman finishes his second term -
Josef Stalin dies
josef stalin dies in 1953 -
Cuban Rev.
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S.-backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista -
End of Korean War
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Khrushchev comes to power
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (NATO) was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Start of the Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Start of Arms Race
The Arms Race started when the soviet slaunched sputnik -
end of cuban rev
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U-2 Incident
U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Eisenhower finishes his second term
Eisenhower completes his second term as prestident -
Kennedy comes to power
John F. Kennedy succeeds eisenhower. kennedy is responsible for the bay of pigs invasion. -
Berlin Wall built
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin -
Kennedy gets killed
Kennedy gets assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Johnson takes over
Lyndin B. Johnson takes over the same day that JFK was assassinated. -
Khrushchevs reign ends
Nikita khrushchev's reign ends with his death in 1964 -
Johnson finishes kennedys terms
Lyndon johnson finishes kennedys terms and leaves office -
nixon comes to power
Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president of the usa. -
Ho Chi Minh's reign ends
H Chi Minh's position in power is abolished. -
Salt 1
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. -
End of Space Race
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Nixon is succeeded by Ford
Gerald forn takes over from Nixon to become the 38th president -
End of Vietnam War
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Mao Zedong's reign ends
Mao Zedong's reign as chairman ends -
Fidel Castro becomes the 17th president od Cuba
Castro preceeds Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado in cuba. Castro is responsible for the cuban Revolution -
Ford loses the Re Election
Prestident Ford loses the re-election to Jimmy Carter -
Brezhnev comes to power
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European -
Soviet Afghan War
lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. -
Jimmy Carter loses the Re Election
President Carter loses to Ronald Reagan in the 1981 re election. -
Brezhnev's reign ends
His reign ends because of his death in 1982 -
Reagan starts his second term
President Reagan becomes the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms. -
glasnost
(in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. -
Perestroika
political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform. -
George H.W. Bush becomes president
George H. W. Bush wins the 1989 election to become the 41st president -
Berlin Wall destroyed
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Gorbachev comes to power
Mikhain becomes the president of the soviet union -
Yeltsin becomes first president of the soviet union
Boris Yeltsin becomes the first ever president of the Soviet Union -
Gorbachev's reigns comes to an end
Gorbachev loses power on christmas day 1991, not a full year after he gets in office -
Open Skies
Open skies is an international policy concept that calls for the liberalization of the rules and regulations of the international aviation industry—especially commercial aviation. -
Bush's term ends
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Yeltsins reign ends
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Castro's reign ends
Fidel Castro's super long reign as president of cuba ends and his as Raul Castro takes over
