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potsdam conference
*confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany
*would be divided into four Allied occupation zones
*the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.
*this happened July 17th, 1945 -
Yalta conference
*Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan
*all three agreed
*this happened from February 4, 1945 – February 11, 1945 -
Creation of the United Nations
*It was a international organization that had been found in 1945 after WWII.
*51 countries committed to maintaining peace and the security
.*this happened on October 24th of 1945 -
The second red scare
*The name red flag has refers as a common symbol of communism. The Second Red Scare occurred immediately after World War II.
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Truman Doctrine
- President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political *the military and the economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. *this happened on March 12th in 1947
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Creation of the iron curtain/Warsaw pact
*the iron curtain was formed in 1949
*It was made to divide Europe separate that way Europe was in two pieces
*Europe was separated into two since the end of world war II which would have been in 1945 during the cold war wich was in 1991 -
Creation of NATO
*April 4, 1949, Washington, D.C.
*In the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union.
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Berlin Blockade
*All of The Western Allies responded with a massive airlift to come to West Berlin's aid.
*the leader of the soviet's, Joseph Stalin, Imposed the Berlin Blockade from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949.
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Korean War
*five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula
*the Korean War began on June 25, 1950
*Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea
*this happened on June 25th of 1950 -
Cuban revolution
- a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba *1953 and 1959 *began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état *this happened July 26 of 1953
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Space Race
a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities. With that being said there is other such as Artificial Satellites, Unmanned Space Probes, and Human Spaceflight. -
Vietnam war
*Had its origins in the broader Indochina wars of the 1940s and '50s
*Nationalist groups such as Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, inspired by Chinese and Soviet communism, fought the colonial rule first of Japan and then of France.
*this happened on November 1st of 1955 -
Suez Crisis
*this was important because the consequences was for U.S. relations with both Middle Eastern countries and European allies.
*this event happened in from October 29, 1956 to November 7th, 1956. -
1960 U2 incident
- U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
- it began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union *this happened May 1st, 1960
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Bay of pigs invasion
- this event landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs. *April 17 1961 the Cuban-exile invasion force, also known as Brigade 2506, strafed the invaders, sank two escort ships, and destroyed half of the exile's air support. *April 17, 1961 – April 20, 1961
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Berlin crisis of 1961
- The east German military units and police had sealed off all the arteries that were leading all the way to the west of berlin
- People called the communists had then pulled up roads and train track, Barriers that were topped with barbed wire had completed the isolation in the western and preventing the eat Germans from escaping all the way to the west
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Cuban Missile Crisis
*an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union.
* these nuclear missile sites were built on the island of Cuba.
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Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
*August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops
*the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia,
*this happened on August 20, 1968 – August 21, 1968 -
Soviet Afghan War
- The war began after the Soviets, under the command of Leonid Brezhnev
- The local pro-Soviet government had been installed during Operation Storm-333. *this happened on December 24th, of 1979
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Chernobyl Disaster
- result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.
- resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core *this happened April 26 of 1986
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Fall Of The Berlin Wall
- Happened on November 9th, of 1989
- This all had starting at midnight on how the citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
- East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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Fall of the soviet union
*late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis
*several republics already departing the Union and the waning of centralized power
*more republics joined their declaration shortly thereafter.
*this happened on December 26th of 1991
