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Potsdam Conference
The postdam conference was soviet leader joseph stalin, winstin churchill and president truman to negoitate the end of WWII -
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech
Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech which contain the famous frase " an iron curtain has descended on Europe -
Truman Doctrine Established
The truman doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop soviet imperialism during the cold war -
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Cold war
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Berlin Blockade
This was one of the first crisis of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies railways and roads to berlin -
Marshall Plan
This was a programme of economic aid offered by the united states to any European country. -
NATO formed
nato is an intergovermental military allience based on the north atlantic treaty -
West Germany Formed
The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea -
Korean War Ended
The Korea war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while south Korea affiliated with the USA -
Geneva Accords
The set of documents ended the French War with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states -
Warsaw Pact Formed
The Warsaw pact was formed with member States East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the soviet union -
Suez Crisis
a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal -
Sputnik Launched
the soviet union launched sputnick into a low orbit -
Space Race
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space -
Paris East/West talks
Talks between Nikita Khrushehev and Dwight Eisenhower concernign the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 soy plane was shot down over Russian airspace -
Space Race
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space -
bay of pigs invasion
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist Government -
Berlin Wall
Berlin wall built and boarders sealed between East and West Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a US spy plane reported sightinng the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in cuba -
JFK Assaination
JF Kennedy was assinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the Murder -
USSR
Nikita Krushchev from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. -
Vietnam War
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam -
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw pact foeces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as 'Prague Spring' instigated by Alexander Dubcek. -
Space Race
US launched apollo 8 - first manned orbit of the moon -
Space race
US apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon -
Four power Agreement Berlin
The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britian and france reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to berlin -
SALT
strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between US and USSR -
Vietnam
The paris peave accords ended AMerican involvement in Vietnam -
Cambodia Killing fields
the khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia. Any supporters of the former regime were executed in a genocide that became known as the 'Killing Fields' -
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The Capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese led to the whole country becoming Communist -
Vietnam
North Vietnam invaded south Vietnam The Capture of Saigon by the north vietnamese led to the whole country becoming communist -
Iranian Hostage crisis
A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show thier support for the Iranian Revoloution -
Afghanistan
Soviet troops invaded Afghsnistan -
Olympic Boycott by USA
A number of coutnries including the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan -
Poland
Martial Law was declared to crush the Solidarity movement -
Olympic Boycott by Russia
Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the sumer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaltion for the US boycott of 1980 -
Gorbachev Lear of USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union -
Chernobyl Disaster
An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history -
glasnost and Perestroika
Gorbachev announced his intention to follow a policy of glasnot -
Afghanistan
The last soviet union troops left Afghanistan -
Tiananmen Square
Anti Communist protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count unkown -
Poland
Tadeusz Maziwiecki elected leader of the polish government -
Hungary
Hungary proclaimed itself a republic -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was torn down -
Velvet Revoultion Nov 17 1989- December 29th 1989
Series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the communist government -
Malta Summit
Meeting between Mikhail gorbachov and George W bush -
Romanian Revoloution
Riots broke out which culminated in the overthrow and execution of the leader Ceausescu and his Wife -
German reunification
East and West Germany were reunited as one country. -
End of Warsaw Pact
The warsaw pact which allied communist countries was ended -
START
The strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA -
Gorbachev resigned
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag the Kremlin was lowered -
End of Soviet Union
Russia formally reconised the end of the Soviet Union