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amarican soviet coopertaion ends at end of WW2
the cooperation between America and soviets ended at the end of WW2 -
U.S anounces marshall plan
the marshall plan is known as the European recovery program made by the US after WW2 -
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berlin airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
U.S anounces containment
a policy made by the U.S government to prevent the spread of communism. -
four powers divide germany
the four main powers the U.S, Britain, France, and the soviet union split the country into four after WW2 -
NATO setup
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
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korean war
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. -
U.S develops H bomb
the U.S makes its first thermonuclear bomb called the H bomb -
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creation of the warsaw pact
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vietnam war
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
soviet union develops H bomb
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soviet union ceases to exist
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khruchaav calls for peacefull co exstiance
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hungarain revolution
a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian people's republic and it's soviet imposed policy -
sputnik is launched
the soviet union launched the worlds first satallight into space -
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bay of pigs invation
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
berlin wall was built
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
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cuban missle crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 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. -
partial test ban treaty signed
The PTBT was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on 5 August 1963 before it was opened for signature by other countries. -
american soviet hotline established
This hotline was established in 1963 and links the Pentagon with the Kremlin. -
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czech uprising (prague spring)
Czechs confronting Soviet troops in Prague, August 21, 1968. Soviet forces had invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the reform movement known as the Prague Spring. -
U.S votes to admit communist china into U.N
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helsinki accords
The Helsinki Final Act, also known as Helsinki Accords or Helsinki Declaration was the document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe. -
soviet invation of afghanistan
the soviet 40th army invaded Afghanistan to prop up the communist government of the people's democratic Afghanistan. -
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 Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
I.N.F treaty signed
The 1987 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 Iron Curtain largely ceased to exist in 1989–90 with the communists' abandonment of one-party rule in eastern Europe. -
berlin wall torn down
Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961. The name is derived from a key line in the middle of the speech: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -
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 was a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union on the reduction and the limitation of strategic offensive arms.