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Amarican-Soviet Cooperation ends at end of WW2
The Cooperation between the Americans and the Soviet ended at the end od World War 2 -
U.S Announces Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. Giving money. -
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Berlin Airlift
The United States and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
U.S Announces “Containment”
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. -
Four Powers Divide Germany
For purposes of occupation, the Americans, British, French, and Soviets divided Germany into four zones. -
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Korean War
The conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives. -
U.S Develops H-bomb
The bombs were developed. -
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Creation of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam. -
Soviet Union Develops H-bomb
The Soviet Union also pursued the development of a hydrogen bomb. However this design limited the amount of thermonuclear fuel that could be used and therefore the bomb's explosive force. -
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Khrushchev calls for “Peaceful Co-existence"
The Soviet theory of peaceful coexistence asserted that the United States and USSR, and their respective political ideologies, could coexist rather than fighting one another, and Khrushchev tried to demonstrate his commitment to peaceful coexistence by attending international peace conferences. -
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Hungarian Revolt
The national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. -
Sputnik is Launched
Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
They invaded CubaThe invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Berlin Wall is Built
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Amarican-Soviet Hotline Established
John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow. The “hotline” was designed to facilitate communication between the president and Soviet premier. -
Partial Test Ban Treaty Signed
The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. -
Czech Uprizing
the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague -
U.S Votes to Admit Communist China into U.N
Albania's motion to recognize the People's Republic of China as sole legal China was passed as a General Assembly Resolution. -
SALT Treaty Signed
The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
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Helsinki Accords
The Helsinki Accords were primarily an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Polish Solidarity Uprising
Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. -
U.S Star Wars Research begins
President Ronald Reagan initiated the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an anti-ballistic missile program that was designed to shoot down nuclear missiles in space. Otherwise known as “Star Wars,” SDI sought to create a space-based shield that would render nuclear missiles obsolete. -
I.N.F Treaty Signed
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty required the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate and permanently forswear all of their nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. -
Iron Curtain Collapses
The events that demolished the Iron Curtain started with peaceful opposition in Poland and continued into Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. -
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Berlin Wall Torn Down
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history that marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe. -
Germany is Reunited
German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
START
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994. -
Soviet Union Ceased to Exist
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union, which began with growing unrest in its various constituent republics developing into an incessant political and legislative conflict between the republics and the central government.