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Yalta Conference
Big three met to decide what to do with Germany -
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Arms Race
It was a race between the Soviets and The United States to see who could build the best nuclear weapons and the fastest. -
Marshall Plan
Plan t aid Western Europe, gave $13 billion, to help rebuild Western European economies. -
Berlin Airlift
Allies flew over Berlin Blockade and into West Berlin to give supplies to them. -
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Berlin Blockade
Try to cut off West Berlin so it would fall and that East Germany would get all of Berlin. -
Establishing NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is established -
First Soviet Atomic Bomb test
Shocked America because they were not expecting the USSR to catch up with them weapon wise -
Start of Korean War
Started when 75,000 North Korean soldiers crossed into South Korea. -
Joseph Stalin Death
Died from Heart Attack -
End of Korean War
About 778,000 casualties from South Korea and 1.1-1.5 million casualties from North Korea -
Begin of Viernam War
Long costly war, started over the spread of communist -
Launch of Spudnik 1
Soviets launched Sputnik into Space -
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Space Race
Race to get the most equipment into space and first to send a man to space. -
U-2 incident
Spy plain, flown by Gary Powers, was shot down in Russia. Ended up trading a Russian spy for Powers. -
Bay of Pigs
USA trained Cuban Exiles to start a revolution in Cuba but failed. -
Berlin Wall, Start of wall
Built to keep the Eastern Berliners in East Berlin and out of West Berlin. Build by the communists. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviets tried sending nuclear missiles to Cuba but stopped by The USA. -
INF treaty
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Deconstruction of Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall was torn down by berlin citizens when the East German Communist Party said the citizens could cross the border freely. -
German Unification
German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany