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Yalta conference
the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after the war. -
Potdam Conference
Potsdam was the final time that leaders of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union, who had maintained a tense alliance despite their differences during the war, would meet to discuss postwar cooperation -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Berlin Blockade
Cutting off all land and river transit between west berlin and west Germany. The western allies responded with massive airlift. -
Korean War
It was a proxy war for the cold war. The took 3 years to end with millions of causalities. -
Suez Crisis
in which the Egyptian Government seized control of the Suez Canal from the British and French owned company that managed it, had important consequences for U.S. relations with both Middle Eastern countries and European allies. -
bay of pigs invasion
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Crisis of 1961
Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A direct dangerous confrontation between the united states and the soviet union. Was the moment when two superpowers came closest to nuclear bomb. -
Soviet - Arghan War
The invasion sparked a bloody. Took nine years into civil war. -
Chernobyl disaster
The Soviet Ministry of Power and Electrification reports on an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Station in Ukraine. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
After 5 million people gathered in east berlin in a mass protest. That the berlin wall dividing communist east from west Germany crumbled. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Communist hardliners and military elites tried to over throw Gorbachev. To stop the failing reforms in a coup but failed. -
Vietnam War
a long costly and divisive conflict that pitted communist government of north Vietnam against south Vietnam. -
space race
Americans and soviets completed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to out a human into space.