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Potsdam Conference
President Harry S Truman wanted to make a compromise on having peace. Joseph Stalin did not agree so the compromise was not made and the cold war began. -
Attempts at Arms Control
Relations between the east and west were largely hostile throughout the Cold War. Both sides worked to limit the spread of nuclear weapons and avoid the threat of nuclear war. -
Crisis in Berlin
The Soviets blocked off all the land, rail, and water routes into West Berlin. they were not able to import anything, The soviets hoped that the west would leave Berlin but they refused. West Berlin tried something else like supplying by air and it ended up working successfully and the soviets called off the blockade of Berlin in may 1949. -
The Korean War
North Korea wanted to invade South Korea but south Korea had some help and fought back which south Korea started invading north Korea and so the war settled and they both lay were they been before. Both sides agreed to an armistice. -
The postwar
North America was undergoing rapid social change. By 1960 the total value of all U.S. goods and services was two and a half times greater than it had been in 1940. Economic growth was driven by consumer spending. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik
Sputnik was history's first artificial satellite. The U.S. government established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA in 1958, this would forefront space research. -
Crisis in Cuba
A soviet cargo ship was transporting missiles to Cuba and President John F. Kennedy discovered that the launching island was 90 miles away from American territory. If the missile was launched it can hit targets in the eastern United states, so President Kennedy decided to remove the missiles. -
A soviet Military Parade
The Soviet Military Parade travels through Moscow's Red Square in celebration of the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. The Cold War strategy relied upon the threat of nuclear war. -
The fall of Berlin Wall
Eastern Europe showed the dramatic crumbling of soviet power. The Soviet Union itself was starting to fall apart. -
The Soviet Union Collapses
Twelve of the republics eventually united in a loose confederation known as the common wealth of independent states. The mighty Soviet Union, once one of the two most powerful countries on the globe no longer existed.
