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Soviet Creation of Nuclear weapons
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
yalta conference
what:meeting between US and USSR to reorganize germany
where: yalta
what did it do for the cold war:it started the battle for power
what did it do for freedom?: germany had no freedom -
potsdam conference
what: a meeting between US and to re-draw the borders of germany
where: potsdam Germany
what did it do for the cold war:started the power struggle and the spheres of influence.germany was split in half
what did it do for freedom? germany had no freedom, everyone east of germany was communist, west was capitalist. -
Hiroshima bombing
Rushay said that Hiroshima was one of four potential targets and that Truman left it up to the military to decide which city to strike. Hiroshima was chosen as a target because of its military importance. Nagasaki was bombed a few days later. -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. It was originally called the "Brother Plan" in the Soviet Union -
Truman Doctrine
what:
where: Truman Doctrine
what did it do for the cold war:
what did it do for freedom? -
Brussels Treaty
what:
where: Brussels Treaty
what did it do for the cold war: The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and by several other names, was a major conflict in the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. -
marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Block aid
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Nato
what:The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949
where: Nato
what did it do for the cold war: The Nur Otan Democratic People's Party, called simply Nur Otan, is the ruling political party in Kazakhstan with over 762,000 members. -
Fidel Castro taking over
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. -
warsaw pact
what:Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.78 million residents within a greater.
where: warsaw pact
what did it do for the cold war: The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union with its satellite states, and the United States with its allies after World War II. The historiography of the conflict began between 1946 and 1947. -
Bay of pigs
The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. Instead, it turned into a humiliating defeat which pushed Cuba firmly into the arms of the Soviet Union and has soured US-Cuban relations to this day. The Bay of Pigs is a large isolated inlet on Cuba's southern coast -
Creation of the Berlin wall
The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic, capitalist bloc. -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
Hungarian Revolution
Although Hungary remained a Communist country for many years after the Revolution, the bravery of the Hungarians inspired people in many other Communist nations to begin fighting for their freedom. This goal was achieved in Hungary in 1989, with the fall of the Communist government. -
Norad
what: The North American Aerospace Defense Command conducts aerospace warning, aerospace control and maritime warning in the defense of North America.at.
where: Norad
what did it do for the cold war: The NORAD commander-in-chief is always a United States Department of Defense four-star General or equivalent confirmed by the US Senate and is also in command of USNORTHCOM, while the Deputy Commander is always Canadian. -
Czechoslovakia revolution
The Velvet Revolution or Gentle Revolution was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia included students and older dissidents -
Afghanistan/soviet war
. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement