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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference resulted in divisions of Germany through reparations of each allied sides occupation zones and divisions of European countries between the US and the USSR. -
Yalta Conference
A meeting held to plan out the occupation of post war Germany. -
Truman Doctrine
It was a policy which stated that the US would give aid to any country threatened by communism. -
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 of Berlin which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
Creation of NATO
Creating the NATO showed significant development in Cold War. Military alliance with an aim of defending Western European countries threatened with communist -
Second Red Scare
USA characterized by heightened political repression against communists as well as a campaign spreading fear of their influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents. -
Korean War
A conflict between North Korea and South Korea in which the United States along with other UN countries. -
The Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was the maintain struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States. -
Suez Crisis
Israel attacks and holds the canal while Britain and France bomb Egypt. -
Space Race
Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy. Cold War rivalry between the two nations on attaining first in space exploration. -
Cuban Revolution
This was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement and its allies against the government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Invasion happens when a cia financed and and trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempts to end the communist government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to annoy and scare the United States. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The nuclear power plant in the Ukraine that suffered two large explosions which released massive amounts of radioactive materials -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Cut off from the global economy out of date. Removed from the global economy. Gap in inefficiency grew. Rise of nationalism in non Russian areas USSR was Russia.
