-
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a conference about WWII. It was between The United States, The United Kingdom, And the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. -
Creation of The United Nations
Right when it was created, there were originally 51 countries that joined. The united nations was formed to stop another major war from happening. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was the first major international crisis of the Cold War. -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization were officially made on 4 April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty. The Washington Treaty or North Atlantic Treaty forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war fought between North Korea and South Korea. This war started in 1950 and it ended in 1953. Neither side won. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a race to get up into space(Specifically land on the moon) between many countries. It was mainly between the United States and The USSR. The United States wont the Space Race. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France -
1960 U2 incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States. It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 35 day confrontation between The United States and The Soviet Union. They were threatening each other with missiles. -
Fall of the Berlin 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. -
Fall of The Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union which resulted in the end of the country's and its federal government's existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991
