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Potsdam conference (End of WW2)
This day marked the end of world war 2 where Joseph Stalin,Winston Churchill and president of the united states harry Truman met to negotiate terms of Germany surrender. -
The Iron curtain is created
The iron curtain was a boundary that separated the NATO countries from the Warsaw pact the soviet union felt the need to isolate the countries it controlled after WW2 to have a stronger communist influence over them. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was created after WW2 by the united states its monetary goal was to help rebuild the European countries that where left in ruins by the war by aiding billions of dollars to make Europe a prosperous nation again it also helped fight off communist influence in Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift
The soviet union attempted to starve the allied sector of Berlin to gain supremacy by creating a blockade but the alliance responded by sending airplanes into Berlin day and night to drop off supplies of food and resources. -
Nato
The united states saw the expansion of communism as a threat to Europe in order to stop the influence of communism the US created NATO which was the North Atlantic Organization it prompted 11 other nations. -
The Warsaw Pact
The soviet union and communist nations founded the Warsaw pact which was a rival alliance to NATO -
The Sputnik Crisis
The sputnik was an artificial earth satellite that was launched by the soviet union to orbit the earth this showed united states that the soviet union was more technological advanced and it soon became a race of arms. -
The U2 incident
The cold war was a battle of information and technology in the 1960s a huge incident broke out known as the U2 incident where the soviet union shot down a spy plane on soviet territory and caught its pilot the united states denied any connection to the incident but was forced to reveal the mission in order to obtain the pilot back. -
The Berlin Wall
On the night of august 13 1961 soviets created a a wall that would keep east Germans isolated from going to the west. -
The Cuba Missile Crisis
The Cuba missile crisis was the firs time we had ever gotten so close into an actual nuclear war the united states had discovered that the soviets had installed nuclear missiles in Cuba when confronted by the US to remove the missiles or military force would be used it ended in a 13 day feud but luckily got solved in a agreement that the US would not attack Cuba and would remove its missiles from turkey. -
The Fall of the USSR
The Soviet Union was finally coming to an end when major reforms where taking place. One major one was the acknowledgment of the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union
