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american soviet cooperation ends at end ww2
The usa did not like when ww2 ended that the ussr occupied a few european countries including germany but ussr did not want to give it back they wanted to punish the ones responsible. It all developed into mistrust between usa and ussr and that started the cold war. -
Four powers divide Germany
When germany surrendered germany was divided into four section between the superpower. -
Berlin air lift
Soviet forces blocked off all railroads and road leading into west berlin so they could not get supplies in or let peaple move in or out so they started the airlift were us brought in planes for supplies. -
NATO set up
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. -
korean war
After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic -
Soviet Union develops H-Bomb
RDS-6. RDS-6, the first Soviet test of a hydrogen bomb, took place on August 12, 1953, and was nicknamed Joe 4 by the Americans. It used a layer-cake design of fission and fusion fuels (uranium 235 and lithium-6 deuteride) and produced a yield of 400 kilotons. -
creation of Warsaw pact
It was a soviet version of nato -
Khrushchev calls for “peaceful co-existence
The Soviet theory of peaceful coexistence asserted that the United States and USSR, and their respective political ideologies, could coexist rather than fighting one another, and Khrushchev tried to demonstrate his commitment to peaceful coexistence by attending international peace conferences -
Hungarian Revolt
The uprsing lasted 12 days until soviet tanks and troops came and killed thousands and nearly a quater million fled the country in that time -
Sputnik is launched
It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January 1958. -
bay of pigs invasion
The cia sent a team to cuba to take doen fidel castro but they underestimated there milotary power -
Berlin wall is built
Soviet union biult the wall over night to separate the east and west berlin so no one can switch sides when they want the soviets want to punish those in berlin becasue they believe them to be responsible -
Cuban missile crisis
It was the closest the cold war became to a full nuclear war -
american soviet hotline established
Usa and ussr established the hotline to aviod future wars by miscalculation becasue they both had powerful weapons and did not want to use them by accident. -
Partial Test Ban Treaty signed
The PTBT requires parties to abstain from carrying out nuclear explosions in any environment where such explosions cause radioactive debris outside the limits of the State that conducts an explosion. -
Czech uprising(spring)
The prague spring was a time of freedom for the czechoslavakians -
SALT treaty signed
After a period of negotiations, the first treaty, known as SALT I, was signed on May 26, 1972. By signing SALT I, the US and the USSR agreed to a limited number of ballistic missiles, as well as a limited number of missile deployment sites. -
Helsinki Accords
It was a meeting of all the european country to sign a document for human rights -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Polish “Solidarity” uprisings
In the 1980s, Solidarity was a broad anti-authoritarian social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. The Government attempted in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repressions. -
I.N.F. Treaty signed
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation). US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty -
Berlin wall torn down
East and west berliners came together break down the wall -
Iron Curtain collapses
It fell in 1989 following a major revolution in Poland and the declining influence of the Soviet Union globally. Following an attempted coup in the Soviet Union in 1991, most countries behind the Iron Curtain declared their independence, bringing an end to the symbolic barrier. -
Germany is reunited
East and west germany was officially reunited as one in 1990 -
Soviet Union ceases to exist
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.