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German unifiction
Otto Von Bismarck pushed German unification though blood and iron -
War
Seven week war -
leaders
9 accepted Prussian leadersip -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Politician who led the soviet union during the cold war -
Yalta conference
World war II meeting of the head of government -
arm race
competition between the U.S and the U.N -
Ho chi
Ho chi min declare Vietnam independent -
Geroge marshall
Marshall became secretary of state -
Geroge Marshall
Became secretary of state -
Truman doctrine
president harry Truman established that one U.S would provide political, military assistance -
Marshall plan
an initiative to aid western Europe -
Berlin blockade
soviet union tried to limit the ability of France -
Berlin airlift
The airlift carried over 2 tons of supplies to berlin -
Prisident Tunnel
He came to Wiesbaden to take over the operation -
Korean war
north Korea invaded south Korea -
joseph stalin dies
on march 5, 1953 Stalin passes from a stroke -
Aid
U.S begin aid in south Vietnam -
Vietnam war
a war between north and south Vietnam also with their ally the U.S -
Soviet union
S.U launches sputnik 2 with the 1st living passenger -
Space race
Competition between two cold war rivals -
The U.S.S.R
USSR launches luna 1 which misses the moon but is the 1st object to leave earth orbit -
u-2 incident
U.S.A u-2 spy plane was shot down while in soviet airspace -
Bay of pigs invasion
failed military invasion -
Cuban missile crisis
leaders of the U.S and soviet union engaged in a tense 13 day stand off -
Troops
1st U.S combat troops arrive in Vietnam -
Communist state
North and South Vietnam came together as a communist state -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Insargent groups known as the musahideen -
mikhail gorbachev comes to power
he was the 1st president of the soviet union -
INF treaty
treaty between the U.S and the union of soviet socialist -
U.S.S.R breakup
result of the declaration
