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Creation of the United Nations
Roosevelt wanted to convince the public that an international organization was the best means to prevent wars which lead to the creation of the United Nations(U.N). This included 51 countries committed to maintain peace -
Truman Doctrine
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
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The Cold War
political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945. -
Creation of NATO
on April 4th 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty was signed. this Treaty formed the basis for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – or NATO. -
Korean War
Communist Side Soviet Union, China and North Korea wanted the Korean peninsula for Communisms spread. Fortunately With 3 years of fighting with the Help of USA they wouldn't capture South Korea and remains separated to this day. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's regime by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in 1959.
It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed by the Soviet Union to counter NATO. They made this to try and keep communism going without being in fear of NATO Signed May 14th 1955 -
The Space Race
American and Soviets competed to proved technological superiority by putting the first human into space. By the USA successfully landing on the moon its safe to say they proved their superiority. -
Vietnam War
similarly to most wars happening in this era the spread of communism had much to blame for the war. while the north had support of communist Soviets and China, the south had support of the US. Ultimately The south was conquered. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. By November Egypt emerged victorious and opposing governments withdrew their troops. -
1960 U2 Incident
an American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over Soviet air space. On the first day of the Paris summit, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev stormed out after delivering a condemnation of U.S. spy activities. -
Berlin Crisis of 1961
East German police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to West Berlin. The communists pulled up train tracks and roads, erected barriers topped with barbed wire, completely isolating the Western sectors and preventing East Germans from escaping to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. But on October 28, Khrushchev issued a public statement that Soviet missiles would be dismantled and removed from Cuba. -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. They wanted to stop liberalization reforms and strengthen The Communist party. -
Soviet-Afghan War
Soviet-Afghan War began after soviets launched an invasion to support local pro soviet government. fortunately for Afghanistan soviets failed and soviets signed an accord with USA, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and agreed to withdraw its troops. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. To this day the radiation levels are unbearable for human spanning 30km(18.64miles) known as the exclusion zone -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The berlin wall separated west berlin from east berlin and Germany. with tensions declining and relations changing at midnight 11/9/1989 the wall was removed and allowed citizens of the GDR to cross the border -
the end of the cold war
In 1989, Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan, and the revolutionary wave in East Europe replaced communist-backed governments and Soviet allies. At the Malta summit in December 1989, Gorbachev and US President George H.W. Bush declared the end of the Cold War. But many people wouldn't agree it ended till the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of Germany in 1990 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.