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Yalta Conference
Second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. -
Arms Race
A competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe. -
Truman doctrine
Truman appeared before a joint session of Congress to make his case. The world, he declared, faced a choice in the years to come. -
Marshall Plan
Known as European Recovery Program. -
Berlin Blockade
an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors. -
Berlin Airlift
Flying over the Berlin wall to airdrop necessities to Berlin -
Division of Germany
Allied powers divided Germany into 4 zones. Soviet Union controlled East Germany and allies controlled West Germany. -
Korean War
A war between north Korea and south Korea with the USA on south Korea's side. 5 million soldiers lost their lives. -
Hydrogen Bomb
The first full scale thermonuclear test was carried out by the United States in 1952; the concept has since been employed by most of the world's nuclear powers in the design of its weapons. -
President Eisenhower
Prior to his presidency, Eisenhower was a lifelong military man, commanding the D-Day invasion while serving as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II. -
Death of Joseph Stalin
Had a massive heart attack. he is remembered to this day as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi domination. -
Nikita Krushchev comes to power
Khrushchev became an absolutely loyal follower of the brutal dictator. This loyalty served him well, as he was one of the few old Bolsheviks who survived Stalin’s devastating political purges during the 1930s. -
Vietnam War
Long and costly armed conflict that pitted the communist of north Vietnam and Viet Cong against south Vietnam and the United States. -
Warsaw pact
a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance -
Hungarian Revolution
The defeat of the Hungarian revolution was one of the darkest moments of the Cold War. Rebels, often armed with nothing more than kitchen implements and gasoline, were disabling Soviet tanks and achieving other -- sometimes small but meaningful -- victories throughout the country. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the U.S. backed authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. -
U-2 incident
USSR shot down an american U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space. -
President JFK
He became the youngest person ever to be voted into the White House. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
space race
U.S. competition with the U.S.S.R for the technological dominace spurred the U.S. in to the first-ever landing on the moon. -
Bays of pigs invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion. -
Berlin Wall
A wall that is made out of concrete and barbed wire. The wall was built to keep the Western "fascists" from entering East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. -
Mikhail Gorbachev power
Gorbachev had worked hard to open up the political process in the Soviet Union, pushing through legislation that eliminated the Communist Party’s monopoly on power and establishing the Congress of People’s Deputies. -
INF Treaty
INF stand for Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces. An agreement between United States and the Soviet Union. -
German Unification
German Unification the uniting of East and West Germany -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
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.
