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Yalta Conference
Allied plan to deal with borders after WW2. -
Arms Race
Competition for nuclear supremacy during the Cold War. -
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Testing
US testing nuclear weapons in Bikini Atoll to see the affects of nuclear weapons in air, land, and water. -
Start of the Cold War
The Cold War was an ideal war between world powers economically and a competition between achievements, such as the Space Race. -
Invention of the AK-47
The AK-47 was the first Kalashnikov rifle, which became the standard issue rifle for the Soviet Union and then Russian army since 1949. The creation awarded the inventor the Stalin Prize and the Order of the Red Star. -
Berlin Airlift
Time where Germany was divided between the Allied forces of WW2 -
Marshall Plan
Economic plan to send $13,000,000,000 to Western Europe to recover from the war. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet Union blocked Frances ability to visit their portion of Germany after WW2 -
Truman Doctrine
Foreign policy to contain Soviet Union geopolitical expansion -
Communism Spreads to China
Mao Zedong declares communism in China. -
North Dakota
North Dakota contained a large amount of nuclear warheads during the Cold War. -
Korean War
North Korea invades South Korea, the States help SK while China helps NK and the USSR helped NK as well. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
Stalin dies of a possible stroke or poisoning. -
Vietnam War
War between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist South Vietnam. -
Space Race
Competition between Soviet Union and United States to launch people and satellites into space. -
Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power
De-Stalinized the Soviet Union -
U-2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba by CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Tsar Bomba
Nuclear test of a hydrogen bomb made by the Soviet Union. Most powerful bomb ever made. Only 1 was every built. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13 day political and military stand-off between the US and USSR over the installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
Wall to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Germany. -
JFK Assassinated
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated in Texas. -
Richard Nixon
President of United States. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Mujahideen fought against the Afghani government and Soviet Union, Soviets Union withdraws in February 1989. -
INF Treaty
Treaty signed to eliminate medium and short-range missiles. -
German Reunification
Germany is reunified after the Cold War -
USSR Break-up
Occurred during a period where Soviet held countries break away and become their own country. -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power
The final leader of the Soviet Union comes to power. -
AEY
Arms dealing company hired by the US to send munitions to the Afghan during the civil war from Albania. Used Cold War era AK-47 ammunition made in China. The leaders of the company, Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, were eventaully arrested and have been released.
