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Yalta Conference
Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war. Talked about Partitioning of Germany, Fate of Poland, The United Nations, and German reparations -
Arms Race
a competition between the US and USSR for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons. -
Churchill Iron Curtain
Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “..an iron curtain has descended on Europe” -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman promised to help any country struggling with Communist taking over. -
Marshall Plan
Economic aid offered by the United States to any European country. The plan was rejected by Stalin. -
Berlin Blockade
Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK. those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by airplane drops -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea to try to expand communism.The United Nations came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
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Joseph Stalin dies
USSR leader Joseph Stalin dies of a stroke. -
First Dog in Space
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
President Richard Nixon sent US troops to go to Cambodia. -
Space Race
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space.
US launched first manned orbit of the Moon.
US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon. -
U-2 incident
The U-2 incident occurred during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft, flown by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, when it was shot down by the soviet union. Powers parachuted safely and was captured. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed attempt on a force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. -
First Cat in Space
French scientists launched the first cat into space on a Veronique AGI sounding rocket No. 47. The cat, named Félicette, was successfully retrieved after a parachute descent. -
JFK Death
JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder. -
Chernobyl Disaster
An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history. -
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to the ‘Space Race’ -
Carter Becomes President
Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan and war begins -
USSR Olympic Boycott
Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980. -
INF Treaty
The INF treaty is the abbreviated name of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, Signed in Washington, D.C. by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The INF Treaty eliminated all nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as their launchers. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was torn down and Germany is no longer split. -
U.S.S.R Breakup
Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
The Congress of People’s Deputies elects General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991. when the soviet union breaks up and becomes Russia -
German re-unification
The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany -
USA Olympic Boycott
A number of countries including the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
