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Yalta Conference
The United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France had a big meeting. They all agreed to split Germany into four zones of occupation after war. -
Second Red Scare
This happened right after the World War 2, people thought that national or foreign communists were infiltrating American society and government. Having the perception that there were people infiltrating your government had people ready to call the Red scare card. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet leader cut off all land and river transit from West Berlin and West Germany. The Western responded with a big airlift to come to West Berlin's aid. -
Creation of NATO
NATO was formed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was to provide security against the Soviet Union by United States, Canada, and other Western European nations. -
Korean War
The war was between North Korea and South Korea. The North invaded South Korea with a coordinated attack and decided the country would stay divided as a end to the war. -
Cuban Revolution
An conflict that was social and armed led by Fidel Castro as to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista. Castro then brought the dictator down and he was then replaced by Castro. -
Vietnam War
There were many reason why this war started one was from communism. Hos took power in the north and made conflict between the Southern and the Northern. -
Suez Crisis
Egyptian government took control of the Suez canal from British and French that managed the company. Britain and France and Israel then invaded Egypt to take back Suez Canal. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Pigs invasion was to over throw Castro and establish of non-communist government. Its called the pigs invasion because of the location that it took place as "Bahia de Cochinos". -
Berlin Crisis of 1961
German police and military sealing off all ways leading to West Berlin. Communists pull up train track and put many road block plus erected barriers to keep East Germans from escaping to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
American spy spotted a plane and secretly took a picture of it as a nuclear missile in Cuba. US decided to invade Cuba and was close to having a nuclear war but Soviet Union announced a withdraw when US said to invade Cuba. -
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union had Warsaw Pact troops into an invasion of Czechoslovakia to go down on reformist trends in Prague. About 137 Czechs and Slovaks were killed, and hundreds wounded by this invasion. -
Chernobyl Disaster
The disaster was an sudden urge of power during a reactor test destroying Unit 4 of nuclear power station. Killed 31 people due to radiation poisoning during the cleanup. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This was a political change in Eastern Europe and Germany. The reason was to loosen up on East German government to lift some of the regulations on traveling to West of Germany. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet union was gone by the declaration N-0 142-H. Their was a destabilized of communist and that cause Soviet Union to fall as Gorbachev decides to allow elections with multi-party.