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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, where Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. The Soviet Union did not sign the document because it had yet to declare war on Japan.The threat was no bluff. As Truman famously revealed to Stalin during the deliberations at Potsdam, and the United States had just detonated the world's first atom bomb. The effect of it was the sphere of influence. -
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Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
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Warsaw pact
It was the Communist counteraction to NATO. The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism. The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe. -
Hiroshima Bombing
In 1945 during WWII, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. The atomic bomb could have been the cause to Cold War, not because it provoked Stalin to seek confrontation but because it encouraged Truman seek confrontation. He dropped the Bomb on Hiroshima to get the Japanese to surrender quickly, before Stalin enter the war in the Pacific. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the US, at Nagasaki resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. The release of two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945 helped end World War II but set stage for the Cold War. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan created in 1947, was the system created by the Soviet Union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. The Molotov plan kept the cold war going. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948. The result of the Truman Doctrine was that by sending military aid to 'friendly' nations it set a precedent for the principle of 'collective security' building up a network of allies and friendly states to which the US gave military aid free of charge. -
Brussels Treaty
The Brussels treaty was an agreement signed by Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, creating a collective defense alliance. It led to the formation of NATO and the Western European Union. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was introduced on April,03,1948, was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies. The impact it had on the cold war was that it reduced the influence and power of Communist parties in Western Europe. -
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and US to travel to their sectors of Berlin. It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post WWII Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railways, roads and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. As a result people of West Berlin were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. During cold war NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons
The Soviet atomic bomb project was authorized by Stalin for Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons. On August 29,1949 the Soviet exploded its first atomic bomb. First America tested the first Hydrogen bomb beating the Russians in the creation of the "Super Bomb". This event really affected the cold war because then the nuclear arms race started which was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for nuclear weapons superiority lasting throughout the Cold War. -
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Korean War
The Korean War 1950-1953 began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea.This was at the Korean Peninsula. By supporting South Korea, America was able to fight Communism without directly attacking Russia. The effect was when they started into actual fight when the North Koreans invaded South Korea, but the main role for Korea in the Cold War was as a setting for a conflict between the communists and the West. -
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Fidel Castro taking over
The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organisation, "The Movement". After the Cuban Revolution Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid becoming an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Stalin's Death
Joseph Stalin died of a stroke in 1953 in Moscow, Russia. Things started taking turns after his death. Everyone started ruling and do whatever they wanted. -
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Vietnam War
Vietnam War, 1954–75, a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the US. It was fought in south,north Vietnam. The North was supported by Soviet Union and other communist allies and the South was supported by the US, South Korea, and other anti-communist allies. It effected the cold war because it angered the states that the Soviets were helping their enemy. -
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Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. It was at the Hungarian People's Republic.The Hungarian Revolution greatly influenced the Cold War with new beginnings and brought hope to a dark period of time. Therefore the Hungarian revolution symbolizes the first part in the process that leads to the the Soviet Union's loss of authority over Eastern Europe in 1989. -
NORAD
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is a United States and Canada bi-national organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. Aerospace control includes ensuring air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States. There are many countries involved like Africa, Asia middle east and it was used for protection during the war. -
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Bay of pigs
On April 17,1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. This was a failed attempt of US in invading Cuba. -
Creation of the Berlin wall
In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall on August 13 to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic capitalist bloc. -
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End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This was a turning point of the war. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
On August 5, 1963, representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. It was signed by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. It created competition during the cold war. -
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Afghanistan/soviet war
Insurgent groups known as the mujaheddin fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the country's rural countryside. About two million Afghan civilians were killed. The war started when the Soviet Union sent its 40th Army to fight in Afghanistan. It was a proxy war between US and the Soviets. -
Solidarity in Poland
Solidarity was founded in Poland in September 1980, was forcibly suppressed by the Polish government in December 1981, and reemerged in 1989 to become the first opposition movement to participate in free elections in a Soviet-bloc nation since the 1940. Solidarity was in response to the actions of the Communist government in raising prices for basic goods. It shrunk the Soviet Union sphere. -
Berlin Wall Falling
It was build in an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin. Then on Nov 9th, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. The fall of Berlin wall bought cold war to an end. -
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Czechoslovakia Revolution
The Velvet Revolution 1989, was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia. It marked the 50th Anniversary of a violently suppressed demonstration against Nazi occupation. Czechs and Slovaks were involved in the revolution. Replacement of Novelty with Alexander Dubcek due to their political, economic and social problems effected the war because Dubcek pushed practical reforms across the board, not only for Czechoslovakia but for the Warsaw Pact. -
End of the Cold war
The cold war ended in 1991, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics.