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Yalta Conference
It was a meeting between of the three allies of the WW2, President Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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Potsdam conference
Was another meeting between the U.S., Soviet Union, and Great Britain
This also gave us a hint to what would happen between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and how the cold war would happen -
Creation of the United Nations
The United Nations is global and was made to prevent major wars like WW1 and WW2
The leaders from U.S., Britain, and The Soviet Union and they decided to form this organization. -
Truman Doctrine
It as an American foreign policy that says that Americans support the deomocrate government
It also says that they are against the Soviet Union trying to expand democratic government. -
Berlin Blockade
This was an attempt by the Soviets to restrict the ability of the U.S.
Because of this about German civilians had no access to food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other basic good. -
Creation of NATO
It was established on April 4, 1949. it is The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ensures the security of its European member countries. Some of the countries include Albania, Bulgaria, Belgium, Croatia, Canada, Denmark, France, Greece, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and United States of America. -
Korean War
The Korean war began because 75,000 North Korean soldiers crossed over the boundary into the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
The war was bloody nearly 5 million people died and Korea lost around 10 percent of its civilization and around 40,000 Americans died in Korea -
Cuban Revolution
It was was an armed uprising revolution led by Fidel Castro overthrowing the horrible dictator Fulgencio Batista
Batista fled Cuba on January 1, 1959 -
Space Race
it was a race between the U.S. and the Soviets as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology.
And the first one to get to the moon was the U.S. -
Vietnam War
This war was between North Vietnam versus the South Vietnam and its major ally the U.S.
Many people of the U.S. were divided people wanted to withdraw from the war while others insisted to keep going. This occurred during the cold war so all the actions were intensified -
Suez crisis
This started when the Israeli soldiers that were armed forced their way into Egypt toward the Suez canal
the Israeli were accompanied by the French and British and because of this it damaged their relationship with the U.S. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 35 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, which escalated into an international crisis and escalate into nuclear threats
They reached an agreement with the Soviets putting their missiles away and taking them back to Russia the U.S. agreed to not invade Cuba. -
Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet Union decided to invade the Afghanistan, under the pretext of the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.
The Soviets decided to leave Afghanistan as they saw that their was no way they were going to win The last Soviet soldier crossed back across the border on February 15, 1989. -
Chernobyl Disaster
This was the worst nuclear disaster in the history of nuclear power generation
There was an explosion and with the wind the radioactive substance was put into the atmosphere and caused damage and was dangerous for the people and workers -
Fall of Soviet Union
This was when the representatives of the soviet republics decided to no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
President Gorbachev was disappointed to see his nation fall apart and resigned, the end of the Soviet Union was peaceful.
