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Yalta conference
The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, held from 4 to 11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the united. The sides involved were Great Britain, the USSR, and the United States, between Stalin, FDR, and Churchill. Its main goal was to discuss Europe's postwar, in the end it demanded Germany's surrender. Gaspire event= political -
V.E.Day
V.E.Day was known as the victory in Europe day when Europe celebrated the Nazi surrender. It marked the ending of WW2 in Europe. Sides involved were France, Europe, Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Gaspire event= social -
Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. Resulted in an Allie victory. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. Gaspire event= Social -
Marshall's plan
Marshall's plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in 2016 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. Gaspire event= Geographic -
Berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 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. Gaspire event= political -
Korean war
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. Gaspire= political -
Death of Stalin
This event was when Joseph Stalin, the leader of the USSR passed away from cerebral hemorrhage. It scared the USSR and sparked an outbreak. Gaspire= intellectual -
Warsaw pact
The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) , a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements. Gaspire= artistic -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. Gaspire= religious -
Space race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for dominance in spaceflight capability. Gaspire= political -
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. Gaspire= geography -
Berlin wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. ... Between 1961 and 1989 the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. Gaspire= economic -
Fall of Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. Gaspire= artistic -
End of USSR
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state. Gaspire= religious
