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The Yalta Conference(Cold War Begins)
Yalta Conference- The Yalta conference is where the main allied leaders Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. Nicknamed the "Big Three". They agreed on what would happen to Berlin and how it would be shared between the countries. They decided to split Germany into four occupied zones. -
Berlin Airlist
An operation by British and American aircraft to airlift food and supplies to Berlin in 1948-9, while Russian forces blockaded the city to isolate it from the West and terminate the joint Allied military government of the city. -
Korean War
A war fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Korean War Ends
Korean War Ends- This marked the stop of large-scale open warfare between the Allies and the communist side until the Vietnam war. This is where the tension starts to build with both sides waiting for the other to strike. -
KGB Formed
KGB formed- The KGB where an intelligent agent for the USSR from 1954 to the end of the Cold War. The Russians didn't trust everyone in the USSR so the KGB were always making arrests on suspects who they believed to be spy's/traitors. This allowed the Russians to have a better knowledge of what was happening in there empire but a lot of the time, it was corrupt. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955–1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Bay of Pigs
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. -
Cuban Missle crises
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
Berlin War Taken Down
This represented the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Once the wall was broken, people from East Germany were celbrating because they were finally free. -
The Cold War Ends
Once the Soviet Union crumbled officially, this marked the end of the Cold War as there was no one to fight. It would have been a great relief for for the countries in NATO as there wasn't a nuclear threat looming.
