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Events Of The Cold War

By nataliefike

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. This was to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    The Potsdam Conference was to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill/ Prime Minister Clement Attlee, and U.S. President Harry Truman all met in this conference.

  • Second Red Scare

    Second Red Scare
    the Second Red Scare happened right after World War II. There was heightened political repression against communists.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Truman Doctrine established that the US would provide political, military and economic help to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. This helped in the Cold War.

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    The Berlin Blockade cut off all land and river transit between the two. Western Allies has a massive airlift come to the West Berlin's help.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Korean War was between North Korea and South Korea. It started when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea. They did this because they were in years of tension.

  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution
    The Cuban Revolution was a social and armed conflict. This was led led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista. This made many people unhappy because the lack of justice.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    The Space Race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. They did this to achieve superior spaceflight capability

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War started because President Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. The USA was afraid communism would spread to South Vietnam and the rest of Asia.

  • 1960 U2 Incident

    1960 U2 Incident
    The 1960 U2 Incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It began by the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union.

  • Berlin Crisis of 1961

    Berlin Crisis of 1961
    The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was when East German police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to West Berlin. Communists completely isolating the Western sectors and preventing East Germans from escaping to the West.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union's governments. There were nuclear missiles that killed more than 200 million people.

  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War
    The Soviet–Afghan War was a long armed conflict. The Soviets wanted to prop up the country's communist government.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    The Fall of the Berlin Wall was a celebration for the Berliners. There were political changes that occurred and it was the first step to German reunification.

  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    The two main causes of the Fall of the Soviet Union was that the Soviet command economy began to slow. The Soviet Union also kept up its military commitments and tried to match the United States in the arms race.