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Yalta Confrence
Roosevelt discussed with Stalin the conditions under the soviet union would enter the war against japan and all three agreed that in exchange for potentially crucial soviet participation -
Creation of the United States
Established after WW2 was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating the American society -
Second Red Scare
occured immediatley after world war 2 was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating's the American society -
truman doctrine
Established that the United State would provided political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat -
Creation of NATO
Created by the United States, Canada and several westerns European nations to provide collective security against the soviet union -
berlin blockade
Joseph Stalin cut off all land and river transit between west berlin and west germany -
Cuban Revolution
Was a social and armed conflict led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista -
korean war
North Korea, supported by the soviet union invaded the south on the 15th of June, which was supported by the USA. led to the death of 3 million people -
Space Race
Began as an arms race between the respective military's of the untied states and the soviet union, became into the two country's seeing who could touch the moon first. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
An abortive invasion of Cuba in April by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union, The Soviet Union were secretly installing missiles in Cuba -
Vietnam war
North Vietnam wanted to reunited the country under communism, Its political and economic system. South fought to keep this from happening -
Chernobyl disaster
The fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chornobyl Ukraine went out of control during a test at low-power it exploded and released large amounts of radiation -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Five days after half a million people gathered in East Berin in a mass protest, The wall dividing East Germany and West Germany had crumbled -
Fall Of the Soviet Union
The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbacjev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union, This was planned by hard-lined communists. The coup diminished Gorbachev's power