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The Nuclear Arms Race
A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. Both counties stockpiled nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union's first nuclear test was on August 29, 1949 -
The Yalta Conference
A meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
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The Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others). It started in 1947 and lasted through 1991, the months and days of the start and end date are unknown -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. The blockade was the first major clash of the Cold War and foreshadowed future conflict over the city of Berlin. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was created by George Marshall. It was used to help rebuild Europe after World War 2. -
The Berlin Aiflift
U.S. and British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin, because Soviets blocked entrances to Berlin. -
The Division of Germany
In 1946, with Eastern Europe under Soviet control and influence, Europe was divided into a West (western democracies and the United States) bloc and East (Soviet Union and Soviet occupied territory) bloc. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April 4, 1949, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. Its original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. -
The Federal Republic of Germany
Creation of a democratic state, know as the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany. -
The German Democratic Republic
East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic, was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period. Communists controlled this half of Germany -
USSR and Chine Pact of Mutual Defense
The treaty’s terms called for the Soviets to provide a $300 million credit to the PRC. It also mandated that the Soviet Union return to the Chinese the control of a major railroad and the cities of Port Arthur and Dairen in Manchuria, all of which had been seized by Russian forces near the end of World War II. The mutual defense section of the agreement primarily concerned any future aggression by Japan and “any other state directly or indirectly associated” with Japan. -
The Korean War
The Korean War started when the North Korean Army crossed the border and started conquering South Korea. -
The Test of the Thermonuclear Bomb
Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first test of a full-scale thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion. Due to its physical size and fusion fuel type (cryogenic liquid deuterium), the Mike device was not suitable for use as a deliverable weapon; it was intended as an extremely conservative proof of concept experiment to validate the concepts used for multi-megaton detonations. -
Death of Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin died from intracerebral hemorrhage. -
Nikita Khrushchev Comes to Power
Nikita was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
The USS Nautilus
USS Nautilus was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine. President Eisenhower ordered the U.S. Navy to attempt a submarine transit of the North Pole to gain credibility for the soon-to-come SLBM weapons system. -
The Baghdad Pact
The Baghdad Pact is founded by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. It is committed to resisting Communist expansion in the Middle East. -
The Space Race
The Space Race began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites. The US and the Soviet Union had a race to see who could reach the moon first. -
The Vietnam War
The USSR was supporting Ho Chi Minh's communist regime in Northern Vietnam and the USA did not want communism to spread farther than the USSR itself and so they fought against them on the side of Southern Vietnam. -
The U-2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. The soviet Union shot down the plane to get access to the plane's technology. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. The US trained Cubans to go into Cuba and start a revolution against Castro. -
The Start of the Berlin Wall
East Germany built the Berlin wall to divide East and West berlin, to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin. -
Cuban MIssile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis 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. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle. The Americans beat the Russians to the moon. -
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Afghanistan War was fought between Afghanistan rebels called the Mujahideen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government. The United States supported the Afghanistan rebels in order to try and overthrow the communist government and to prevent the spread of communism. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
An agreement between America and the Soviet Union to eliminate their intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles on each other. -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes To Power
Mikhail was elected president for the Soviet Union. -
German re-unification
The German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
The U.S.S.R. Breakup
It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.[1] The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do it at all.
