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Arm race
this was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three (Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill) met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
General George C. Marshall announces the Marshall Plan.
A plan was maid to aid European nations back -
Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement
Israel agrees to the release of a besieged Egyptian brigade in Faluja. -
Berlin Airlift
one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
North Korean forces invade South Korea
The Korean War was one of several military conflicts that occurred during the Cold War. It all happened when North Korea, a communist nation, invaded South Korea. -
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg executed.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union -
British and French planes bomb Egyptian airfields
British and French aircraft attacked Egyptian airfields in an attempt to neutralize the Egyptian Air Force. The Egyptians lost around 260 aircraft during 5 days of bombing . -
French settlers in Algeria riot in Algiers.
Angry crowds fought riot police with guns goaded by French rightist leaders to rise against President Charles de Gaulle -
The governments of the United States and the Soviet Union announce the end of the Cold War.
Gorbachev resigns as Soviet President and the post is abolished; the red Soviet flag is lowered from the Moscow Kremlin
