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Yalta Conference
During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world -
United Nation
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. -
Potsdam
Truman demanded free election in eastern europe -
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Arm Race
The U.S. and USSR competing with each other who would make better weapon -
Iron Curtain
Nickname used to refer to communists nations of Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Truman’s address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. -
The Marshall plan
The Marshall plan is when U.S. gave money Western Europe in economic support -
Berlin Airlift
West Berlin surrounded by east Germany, is cut-off and can not last longer. until May 12, 1949 -
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Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. Eventually, the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin. -
COMECON
An economic organization under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Military alliance providing mutual help if attacked USA, UK, France etc, -
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Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Joseph Stalin dies
He died from a massive heart attack -
Nikita Khrushchev Comes To Power
Khrushchev denounced many of Stalin practice pursued a course of reform -
Warsaw pact
Military alliance of communist block nations USSR, East German etc. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Sputnik
1st satellite to orbit earth sent radio signals back to earth -
U-2 Incident
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. -
Yuri Gagarin
was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth -
Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade. -
Berlin wall
This was built to keep east Germans in East Germany and west Berliners out of it. until Nov 9, 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
he Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. -
JFK Assassination
Johnson would take his place as president -
1st man on the moon
Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon. -
Space Race
Space Race is when United State and USSR became superior in spaceflight and outer space travel -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
is when 30k soviet a weakened Afghanistan and overthrow their government -
Gorbachev come to power
Mikhail Gorbachev is selected as the new general secretary and leader of the Soviet Union, following the death of Konstantin Chernenko the day before. Gorbachev oversaw a radical transformation of Soviet society and foreign policy during the next six years. -
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. -
German ReUnification
Is when East and West came together to make German a whole nation again. -
U.S.S.R Breakup
The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. And few days the 11 representatives cities said that they are no longer be apart of Soviet Union
