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World war 2 ends the cold war begins
germany is split between the soviet union , united states,france and the united kingdom where west germany belonged to the western nations while east germany belonged to the soviet union -
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Cold war
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Containment begins
The truman doctrine is issued to stop communism from spreading with 400 milllion dollars spent on containing communism -
the u.s national security is created
The u.s signs the national security act which created the department of defense , the cia, and the national security concil -
Creation of NATO
The u.s and eight other countrys formed the North Atlantic Treaty organization to which their goals were to prevent anmd stop wars -
Berlin Blockade
Stalin issued that east germany have a blockade to prevent travel by building the berlin wall the goal of this was to keep the u.s out of europe and germany -
China civil war
Mao zedongs communist backed army defeated the united states backed Chiang Kai-shek's army and pushed them into the island of taiwan where the united states made treatys with many countrys to make military bases to work on containing Asia and Africa -
Korean war
North Korea backed by Stalin invaded south korea in 1950 in response NATO backed south korea and formed a military force made up of all of NATOs countrys defended south korea -
Joseph Stalin death
Joseph stalin died in moscow from cerebral hemmorage after he killed over 2 million people -
End of the korean war
the stice was signed in 1953 which officially ended the war after Stalins death though this war gained NATO its military structure -
the warsaw pact
The Soviet Union formed the warsaw pact that had 8 members along with the soviet union to counter NATO the western allience -
Vietnam
North vietnam backed by the soviet union invaded south vietnam backed by the u.s the war was fought with many american soldiers vs the viet cong -
Khrushchev
The new soviet leader after stalins death Khrushchev constantly threatened nucler annilation but his new goal was to keep coexisting peace -
Cuban Revolution
Fidel Catsro leader of the revelution overthrew the cuban government and resorted the country to communism the president decided not to talk to Castro and Castro decided to start arming themselves by buying arms from the east -
Berlin crisis
The soviet union built the full berlin wall to make the west leave but the u.s did not ands they sent military vehicles in =to east germqany and the tanks of the soviets had a standoff with the u.s ones and eventually the soviets backed off to lower the tensions -
Cuban missle crisis
The soviet union learned of plans to have Fidel Castro eliminated ansd in response put nucler missles in cuba which america responded with a navel blockade with the americans and the soviet union on the brink of nucler war the soviet union backed off took out there missles and the americans took out their missles in certain spots in Europe -
The u.s leave and the end of the war
The u.s extracted their forces from vietnam after the effort to win but the war kept them losing money and economy the north defeated south vietnam after the americans left and the country turned to communism -
Soviet war in afganistan
the soviet union soldiers backed the afgan government against the NATO backed insurgents known as the Peshawar Seven who recieved weapons money and supplies from NATO the soviet union did most of the fighting -
End of the war in afganistan
The soviet union was not gaining any power in the war and they were just losing so they decided to withdraw their troops and they fully left afganistan in 1988 this is often known as the soviets vietnam -
end of the berlin wall
Finally the soviet union decided to lower its iron curtain after many years of confinement the civillians tore down the wall once and for all joining West and east germany once again -
End of the soviet union
The end of the soviet union was struggling with the ecionomy and soviet allies started to fall from communism into capitalism and eventuallly ukraine belarus and russia decided on independence and eventually the soviet flag was lowered for the last time in december 1991 -
End of the cold war
With the soviet union gone the great war between the two countrys has finally ended Russia cut military costs and rebuilt trust with the united states and over 100,000 americans died in the cold war this event will be remembered in history forever
