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Yalta Conference
Meeting of world war 2 allies held in a Russian town -
Creation of the United Nations
An attempt to keep and maintain international peace and unite countries -
Truman Doctrine
It was basically saying the United States would provide help to all democratic nations under stress -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet efforts to move west -
Creation of NATO
This was a collection of countries to stay safe and secure from the soviet union -
Korean War
This was a war between North Korea and South Korea -
Cuban Revolution
This was a revolution from the Cuban people to overthrow the government -
Vietnam War
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia had a conflict that lead to a war -
Suez Crisis
International crisis in middle east -
U-2 incident
U-2 was a spy plane that was crashed -
Bay of pigs invasion
Attempt to overthrow the Cuban government that failed -
Berlin crisis
East Germany began to build a barrier between them and West Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was an upfront confrontation between both sides of the Cold War, this is the closest they came to nuclear conflict -
Soviet-Afghan War
War between the Soviets and Afghanistan fought in Afghanistan -
Chernobyl disaster
This was an explosion of a nuclear power plant, where there was an explosion which caused a lot of deaths and harmful radiation to be released