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Yalta Conference
Start of Cold War. Big Three met to discuss German surrender & Stalin promised free elections -
Truman Doctrine
USA would provide military & economic aid to countries threatened by Communism -
Marshall Plan
US economic recovery for war-torn Europe proposed by George Marshall including $13 billion in US loans -
Berlin Blockade
Soviets block entrances to Berlin & cut off Aliied supplies to West Berlin -
Berlin Airlift
US & British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin -
Arms race
Compete in building Nuclear Weaspons -
Korean War
UN sent forces to stop Communist spread and aggresstion -
Stalins Death
The death of Joseph Stalin -
Vietnam War
Vietnma divided into a Northern Communist state and a Southern Republic state -
Space race
battle for Supremacy in spaceflight ability -
U-2 Incident
U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles lead revolt again Castro ordered by President Kennedy -
Berlin Wall
Built for keeping East Germans from fleeing to West Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
USSR 10 year war against Afghan rebels -
INF Treaty
First nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms, rather than establish ceilings that could not be exceeded. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to Power
President who help put end to cold war -
German Unification
Germany unified as one
