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Yalta Conferance
Big 3 meating -
Arms Race
Nuclear arms race between USSR and USA -
Truman Doctrine
US support of countries finatually so stay out of USSR sphere -
Marshal Plan
American initiavite to aid Euorpe -
Berlin Blockade
Soveit union block off berlin from the West -
Berlin Airlift
How the US got supplies to West Berlin after USSR shut down Allied transport. -
Period: to
Korean War
Conflict between the UN and North Korea. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
He dies of a heart attack -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
took power after Stalin died -
Space Race
Race to space between USSR and USA -
Period: to
Veitnam
War between US and Veticong -
U-2 Incident
US spy plan shot down by USSR -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
Invasion by cuban revolutionists to take back cuba from communists -
Berlin Wall
started on the 13th of August 1961
finished -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Thought USSR was sending nuclear weapons to Cuba -
TET Offensive
Surprise attack on major cities and US bases by the veit cong in the veitnam war over the tet holiday. There was supossed to be a sieze fire for the holiday -
Soviet invasion of afganistan
Soviets invade Afghanistan to fight rebels. -
USSR Breakup
USSR does back to its original boarders -
INF Treaty
The treaty stated that the elmination of ground fired nuclear and balistic missiles -
German Reunification
germany reunified after being broken apart in the cold war -
Mikhail Gorbachev come to power
last leader of soviet union
