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Yalta Conference
A conference between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin where they agreed to demand the surrender of Germany and started plans for the post-war world. -
WWII Ends in Europe
It is known as VE Day. Nazi Germany Surrenders. -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting between the U.S, Soviet Union, and Great Britain where issues were settled, but tension between U.S and Soviet Union grew. -
U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
The first atomic bombing that helped bring an end to World War II. -
Truman Doctrine announced
Truman asks for assistance in preventing communist domination. -
Communist seize power in Poland
The new comunist government in Warsaw solidified its political power. -
Berlin Airlift begins
In response to Soviet blockade, U.S begins an airlift of living necessities such as medicine and food in Wet Berlin. -
NATO established
it was the first mutual military alliance in American history. People were imprisoned and forced to join the Soviet Military, and other countries feared that the Soviets would try to take over other countries so the National Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed. -
USSR explodes its first atomic bomb
First Lightning is detonated by the USSR as a test -
Communists win Chinese Civil War
The civil war was fought between forces of the Republic of China and of the Communist Party of China. The communist won the war. -
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Korean War
A war on communism fought between North and South Korea. U.S joins on behalf of South Korea. The war ends in 1953 and the peninsula is still divided modern day. -
Warsaw Pact formed
A treaty of military alliance between communist nations in Eastern Europe. -
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba and establishes communism
After overthrowing the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, Fidel Castro ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades. -
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
A group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government and failed. -
East Germany Berlin Wall
After sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall to permanently close off access to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. The U.S felt threatened, so JFK chose to enact a naval blockade n order to let it be known that whenever it was necessary, the U.S. was ready to use military forces. At this point the world feared that we were on the brink of Nuclear War, until Soviet leader Khrushchev and JFK came to an agreement that the missiles would be removed and U.S wouldn’t invade Cuba. -
U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent 3,500 U.S. Marines to Da Nang in South Vietnam. -
South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
Communist forces move into Saigon. The South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese. North Vietnamese had launched a major attack against the lightly defended province of Phuoc Long, located due north of Saigon along the Cambodian border, overrunning the provincial capital at Phuoc Binh on January 6, 1975. Despite previous presidential prom -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev is selected as the new general secretary and leader of the Soviet Union, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko the day before. -
Berlin Wall is demolished
East Germans found out that the border guards were letting people cross. The Berlin Wall was inundated with people from both sides. Some began chipping at the Berlin Wall with hammers and chisels. The Berlin Wall was eventually chipped away. -
The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
The Soviet Union is abolished and Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
