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yalta confrence
was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
arms race
An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces. -
us bombs hiroshima
The United States detonates the world's first atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
iron curtain
"Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. -
truman doctrine
Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. -
Hollywood Blacklist
1947 HUAC began to summon entertainment professionals on suspicion their work was communist-inspired. Some became known as the "Hollywood Ten." They declined to tell HUAC whether or not they were members of the Communist Party, -
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, -
berlin airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
marshall plan
was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion -
nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
korean war
the war of 1950–53 between North and South Korea. -
joseph stalins death
joseph stalin dies by a heart attack -
nakita khrushchev comes to power
he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
forming of warsaw pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. -
Vietnam war
a war between communist North Vietnam and US-backed South Vietnam. -
space race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States -
KGB Formed
The KGB where an intelligent agent for the USSR from 1954 to the end of the Cold War. -
cuba taken over
CastroNow that Cuba had been taken over by Fidel Castro, America would not be able to relax knowing that Cuba is situated only 90 miles away. If Castro decides to team up with China or Russia, America would have to be very cautious knowing that missile launches could happen. -
u-2
happened during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. -
bay of pigs invasion
the bay of pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba -
berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. to keep them in -
cuban missle crisis
was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent -
Czechoslovakia Uprising
new Czechoslovakian Party Leader Alexander Dubcek pushed reforms that would put “a human face” on socialism. Would guarantee freedom of religion, press, assembly, speech, and travel. Dubcek also pushed to improve relations with every nation in the world, regardless of social and political affiliations. -
North Vietnam Defeats South Vietnam
The Vietnam War, the first televised war, pitted South Vietnam and the United States against Communist North Vietnam. -
soviet invasion of afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Between 562,000–2 million civilians were killed -
inf treaty
agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev -
Berlin Wall Taken Down
Berlin Wall Demolished 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. -
U.S.S.R. break up
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day -
mikhail gorbachev comes to power
Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power -
german re-unification
the german reunification was when the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany
