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Yalta Conference
Meeting of the heads of government. -
Potsdam Conference
Churchill, Truman, and Stalin met for 15 days to decide what the post-war world would be like. -
Iron Curtain
Was a nickname used to refer to Communist nations of Europe. -
Turman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine provides aid to Greece anf Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The European Recovery Program was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II -
Berling Blockade
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
Planes carried and delivered fuel, food and many other essential goods to the people in West Berlin for an eleven month period of the Cold War -
Arms Race
Soviet Union and United States developed nuclear weapons. At this time both the United States and Soviet Union had nuclear weapons. -
NATO
Northen Atlantic Treaty Organization is mainly consisted of Collective defense. Where the members agree to mutual defense. Which is like a defence mechanism against an external nation. -
Korean War
War between north and south korea. -
Joseph stalin dies
Stalin dies after being gravely ill form long time. This ends his almost three decade reign of terror. Dispite the terrible acts he had committed, the people of the Soviet Union were still sad to hear of his death. -
KGB
The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus and Soviet Unions national security agency. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union fomed its own military alliance. -
Space Race
Cmpetition between USSR and US lunching artificial satellites -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. -
U-2 Incident
Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Started when group of Cuban refugees landed in Cuba and attempted to take down the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall (start and completiiion of)
Completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 days between Soviet Union and Cuban in one side and United State in other side. -
U.S troops were sent to Vietnam.
Their purpose was to keep the communist regime of North Vietnam from invading and gaining control of South Vietnam. -
Prague Spring
The brief period of time when the government of Czechoslovakia led by Alexander Dubček seemingly wanted to democratise the nation and lessen the stranglehold Moscow had on the nation’s affairs. -
Tet offensive
Military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Regular and irregular forces of the People's Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. -
Vietnam War
First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies -
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was the foreign policy in the United States, enacted by Ronald Reagan during his presidency, to help eliminate the communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were supported by the Soviet Union. -
Soviet war in Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to stop their protests and maintain the communist government. -
INF Treaty
Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
The height of the Cold War and he believed that the war was the product of mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
German Reunification
Reunited nation of germany states. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
Countries that had been part of the Soviet Union declared to be independant. This ended the Soviet Union, communism, and the Cold War. -
Dissolution of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union following the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
