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Yalta Conference
was the ww2 meeting of the heads of the government of the United States, UK, and the soviet union. -
Truman Doctrine
was an American foreign policy created to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war -
Marshal Plan
An act to promote world peace, united states gave western Europe over $13 billion to help rebuild western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
at the end of the second world war Us, British, and soviet military forces divided occupied germeny -
Korean War
Began when North Korea invaded South Korea, UN and United states came to aid South Korea. -
Joseph stalin dies
Joseph Stalin, a soviet dictator died of a stroke in Moscow, Russia. -
Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power
selected as one of five men named to the new office of secretariat of the communist party. -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defense treaty among the soviet union and 7 soviet satellite states in central and Eastern Europe. -
Space Race
Competition between United States and the Soviet Union for supremacy in space flight capability. -
Vietnam War
war lasted 19 years and 5 months, it occurred in Vietnam, united states were allies with Southern Vietnam, North Vietnam won war. -
Arms Race
A competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons, especially between the United States and the soviet Union. -
soviet Dog in space
laika was a soviet space dog who became the first animals in space and first animal to orbit the earth. -
U-2 Incident
Started when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Berlin Wall
Wall that divided berlin into two parts from 1961-1989 constructed by the German democratic Republic. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 day confrontation between united states and the soviet union concerning a American ballistic missile. -
JFK assasination
Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuba launched an invasion on The Bay Of Pigs on South Coast of Cuba. -
Moon Landing(1969)
Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two humans to step foot on the moon. -
Soviet Invasion of afghanistan
lasted over 9 years, insurgent groups known as the mujahedeen fought the soviet union, soviet union defeated. -
First american pizza in russia
in the late 1980s the first American food truck made its way to Russia where the first American fast food was available In Moscow. -
INF Treaty
Treaty signed between the United states and Union of soviet socialists on elimination on their intermediate and shorter range missiles. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
he was elected president of the soviet union -
German Reunification
process in which German democratic republic joined the federal republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany. -
U.S.S.R breakup
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as President of the soviet union, became an independent state -
Berlin Blockade
Attempt in 1948 by the soviet union to limit the ability of France. Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the western Allies withdrew.
