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Yalta Conference
the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union -
United Nations
objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. -
Divison of Germany
As a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Germany was split between the two global blocs in the East and West, a period known as the division of Germany. Germany was stripped of its war gains and lost territories in the east to Poland and the Soviet Union. -
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Time of Cold War
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Iron curtain
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 -
Policy of Containment
Containment was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad -
Truman Doctorine
an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech -
Soviet occuptaion of Eastern Europe
The soviet took places over in europe after WWII and occupied them throughout the cold war -
Marshall plan
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 in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Blockade
During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control -
Council for mutual assistance
an economic organization under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world. -
Nato
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Berlin Airlift
carry supplies to the people in West Berlin, flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing up to 4700 tons of necessities daily, such as fuel and food, to the Berliners. -
Korean war
was a war between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Stalin Dies
He suffered from atherosclerosis from his heavy smoking. He suffered a mild stroke around the time of the Victory Parade, and a severe heart attack in October 1945. -
Cuban Revolution
the revolution on Cuba was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista -
Space race
competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Arms race
was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, -
Vietnam war
known by the Vietnamese as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
ICBM
were intercontinental bomb that both sides created during the arms race -
Nikita Khrushchev comes to power
Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. -
U-2 incident
a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
a failed military invasion of Cuba,Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. -
Berlin wall
a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.[ -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
He was the seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
INF Treaty
agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev -
German ReUnification
German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/West Germany) to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
acknowledging the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union, and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
