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Arms Race
A competition between nations for superiority in the accumulation of weapons between the United States and the former Soviet Union. -
Yalta Confrence
Meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
Potsdam
Truman demanded free elections -
George Kennan
Father of Containment -
Truman Doctrine
The US would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations. -
Division of Germany
Allied powers divided Germany into 4 zones. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany. -
Berlin Blockade
Attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States. -
Federal Republic of Germany
Is formally established as a separate and independent nation. -
Marshall Plan
Us plan to aid Western Europe, gave $13 billion dollars. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea -
Hydrogen Bomb
More destructive than 1st Atomic weapons -
Joseph Stalin dies
Joseph was a Georgia revolutionary, politician, and political theorist -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Politician who led the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty of friendship, military alliance of Communist Block nations. -
Vietnam War
War against America -
Cuban Revolutionary
Cuban dictator overthrown. -
Hungarian Revolution
anti-Soviet demonstrations in Hungary -
Space Race
A competition between the two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the US. -
U-2 incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Gary Powers
American U-2 pilot. -
Yuri Gagarin
First Man to travel in space -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
Guarded concrete barrier. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a thirteen-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
When the Mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and lasted over 9 years. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Former Soviet statesman. Eighth and final leader. -
INF Treaty
Treaty between United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
German re-unification
German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany -
U.S.S.R Breakup
It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н.
