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Events of the Cold War

By Cathie

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    This event imediately helped achieve world peace.Before the Cold War that is.

  • PotsDam Conference

    PotsDam Conference
    The Three Big Leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman negotiate the end of WW2 in Potsdam Germany.

  • Creation of the United Nations

    Creation of the United Nations
    since the end of WW2, the world just wanted peace and was tired of war. Thus, the United Nations was born.

  • Creation Of the Iron Curtain

    Creation Of the Iron Curtain
    Winston Churchill gave a speech that said Europe was creating an iron curtain in order to avoid reception from satelites,

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Most likely by Truman himself, a doctrine was wrote in support of the democratic countries to support them under foreign threats.

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    This was meant to make the U.S.A, U.K, and France to abandon their posts. This failed because The Western Allies flew supplies to their parts of Berlin.

  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    This was meant to stop U.S, U.K, and France from getting into Berlin. This however, failed because the Western Allies were able to fly supplies to their spots in Berlin.

  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO
    That stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was organized to safegaurd the countries fighting against the Soviet Union.

  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis
    The Egyptian government took control of the Suez canal that the British was in control of.

  • Cuban Revelution

    Cuban Revelution
    this was an armed uprising that overthrew it's government.

  • 1960 U.S incident

    1960 U.S incident
    A U.S spyplane was shot down for going to far in Soviet territory.

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion
    the U.S was defeated by Cuba and put into Cuban prisons.

  • soviet invasion of czechoslovakia

    soviet invasion of czechoslovakia
    lets just say it was a terrible event where he Soviets decided to prevent protests by removing the protestors.

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    This was the origin of satelite technology and basically why we have the internet today.

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    The east and west Berliners came together making the fist step to German reunification

  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    A man named Gorbachev decided to let a little bit of Democrocy into the Comunist-based Soviet Union apperently leading to it's downfall.