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Yalta Conference
Primary goal of the conference was to reach an agreement on what to do with postwar Eruope -
Potsdam
The three big leaders leaders of the U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain meet at the Potsdam conference. -
Nagasaki
The American plane Bockscar drops an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. -
Marchall Plan
George Marshall proposes the Marshall Plan, a $13 billion foreign aid package designed to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II. -
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Cold War
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NATO formed
10 Western European nations join the U.S. and Canada to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. an anti-Soviet military alliance that extends the deterrent threat of America's nuclear weapons to cover Western Europe -
Hydrogen Bomb
The United States explodes its first hydrogen bomb -
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. -
Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis.
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the istallation of the soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. -
The breakup of the Soviet Union.
Republic after republic declared independence; abd by the end of 1991, the soviet government had ceased to function.
