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German Unification
They were fighting over the Kingdom of austria back in the 1800s. one side of germany wanted to include Austria and the other side wanted to exclude it. Since German was together, Russia came in and wanted to divide them into west and east Europe. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a post-war meeting that was held in a place near Yalta in Crimea. It had President of United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime minister of United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and soviet union's president Josephy Stalin. They would meet to discuss things happening in Europe. -
Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies during the Cold War. The first nuclear weapon was created by U.S. during the second world war to use against the Axis powers. -
Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctorine was a speech that was given by the president of united states at the time who was Harry S. Truman. It was an international relations policy. It indicated that the US would help Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to keep them from joining the Soviet Union sphere. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan which was officially 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 in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was named after Secretary of State George Marshall. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first big crisis of the Cold War.The Soviet Union bblocked railways, roads,and canals to all the areas that were under allied forces. Soviet union tried to support Berlin with food supply, fuel, and aid so that they can try to take control of the entire city. Western allies responded to Soviet Union by organizing the Berlin Aircraft to get things to the people in western berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an event that followed the Berlin Blockade. As the germans were dividing up Berlin, the berlin airlift would help the hostages held in Berlin. In september 1947, the united states and great britain teamed up and combined their zones into one millitary providence called Bizonia. Their goal was to bring security back to the german people. Another zone was made up called Trizone and it was by France. -
Korean War
The Korean War started from June 25th 1950 and ended in July 27th 1953. It was a war between the Republic Of Korea who were supported by the United Nations and The Democratic People's Republic Of Korea who were at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. It all started with the division of Korea. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin was born Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 18, 1878. He became the dictator of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a race between the United States and Russia. It began on August 2 1955 when the soviet union responded to the united states by delcaring that they would also launch a satellite soon. The Soviet union won the first lap because of Sputnik 1 -
Nakita Krushchev
Nikita Kruschev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. He was responsible for the de-stalination of the Soviet Union. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960 when Dwight Eisenhower was the president and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. It all started when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. After that happened the united states tried to deny what the plane's intentions were but finally when they found Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the spy plane. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles would invade cuba and lead the revolt against Castro. The president at the time was J.F.Kennedy and he gave orders for the Bay of Pigs Accident to happen but the invasion failed. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that was constructed by the German Democratic Republic so that it cut off any interactions with West Germany. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, and other defenses. The east side of germany kept implying that the west germany wasn't completely de-nazified and they didn't want to associate with them. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis also known as the October Crisis was a thirteen day confrontation in october 1962 between Cuba and Soviet Union on side and the United States on the other. This crisis almost became a nuclear war . After the US had put nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy and had a failed attempt to overthrow the cuban government, Nikita Krushchavez was the one who got the idea to put missles in Cuba. Nikita and Fidel Castro had agreed on it and the construction had begun. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was formed after the Saur Revolution on April 27, 1978. They had close relations to the Soviet Union. The death of a united states ambassador in Afghan kind of threw off the relationsip the united states and afghanistan had. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War also known as The Second Indochina War was a war that occured in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia from December 1956 to April 30th 1975. It was the war that followed the First Indochina War. They fought a guerrila war against anti-communist forces. -
INF Treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. it was signed by the president at the time who was Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. It was ratified by the united states senate on May 27 1988. It is formerly titled as The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. -
MIkhail Gorbachev comes to power
Mikhail Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant family. He graduated from Moscow State University in 1955 with a degree in law. While he was stil in college he joined the communist party and became active in the party. In 1970 he was made First Party Secretary of the Stavropol Kraikom. He was the seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of openness and restructuing and meeting with president Ronald Reagan had helped end the Cold War. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
In December 1991, the Soviet Union seperated into 15 different countries and everybody celebrated the victory that had come. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. After that the Soviet flag was lowered down and replaced with the russian tricolor. The breaku of the state also marked an end to the Cold War.
