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Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons
Who: Joseph Stalin.
What Happened: Nukes were built by Soviets to help deter other countries from war.
Where: Kazakhstan. -
Yalta conference
Who: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin.
What Happened: It was a conference amongst world leaders to decide what would happen to Germany after the war. It was decided that Yalta was divided into 4 zones.
Where: Yalta -
Potsdam conference
Who: Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Clemente Attlee.
What Happened: They negotiated terms for the end of WWII. Leaders agreed on reparations to be made for restructuring Germany and warned Japan to surrender.
Where: Potsdam -
Hiroshima bombing
Who: Harry Truman.
What Happened: Truman decided to bomb Japanese Cities to achieve a more rapid victory and prevent the death of americans.
Where: Hiroshima. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Who: Harry Truman.
What Happened: Truman decided to bomb Japanese Cities to achieve a more rapid victory and prevent the death of americans.
Where: Nagasaki. -
Truman Doctrine
Who: Harry Truman, Greece, Turkey.
What Happened: Truman created alliances with other countries to help stop the spread of communism in their countries.
Where: announced in speech in America, signed in Turkey. -
Molotov plan
Who: Joseph Stalin.
What Happened: Soviet countries provided aid to rebuild eastern european countries.
Where: Russia -
Period: to
Marshall Plan
Who: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and western Germany.
What Happened: North American countries provided aid to rebuild Western European countries.
Where: America -
Brussels Treaty
Who: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
What happened: An agreement signed to create a defensive alliance between countries -
Period: to
Berlin Blockade
Who: Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain and France.
What Happened: An attempt to limit the ability of travel in Berlin for The U.S and U.K by the Soviets. This forced Allies out of Britain.
Where: Berlin -
NATO
Who: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
What Happened: It was an effort between countries to collectively help provide security against the soviet union -
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Korean War
Who: North Korea and South Korea.
What happened: South Korea was preventing communist spread by North Korea.
Where: Korea. -
Stalin's Death
Who: Stalin.
What happened: Stalin suffered from a stroke.
Where: Moscow -
Fidel Castro taking over
Who: Fidel Castro.
What Happened: Castro accused to Cuban government of tyranny and corruption, and later launched a revolution against the government.
Where: Cuba -
Warsaw pact
Who: The Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
What Happened: It was a pact made to keep the communist ideology alive and retain soviet power. -
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Vietnam War
Who: North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
What happened: South Vietnam was at war to try and prevent the spread of Communist ideologies.
Where: Vietnam. -
NORAD
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Period: to
Hungarian Revolution
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Bay of Pigs
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Creation of the Berlin wall
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End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Czechoslovakia Revolution
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Nuclear Arms Treaties
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Period: to
Afghanistan/soviet war
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Solidarity in Poland
not on booklet -
Berlin Wall falling
not on booklet -
End of the Cold War