Hasan's Cold War timeline

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  • Yalta Conference

    Date; Feb.4-11 1945
    Location: Russian resort town in the Crimea
    The Significance of this was the major leaders around the World including U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevely, Stalin, and Churchill gathered to discuss the war and post war.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Ends on Sept. 30, 1949.
    Location: Berlin
    The Significance of this evernt is that it showed the Soviet Union that the Western Allies would not abandon thier citizenz and would go to great lengths to keep thier independence.

  • NATO created

    Founded in Washington D.C. but the headquarters are in Brussels
    The Significance of this craated the first multilateral military alliance to span the North Atlantic Ocean in time of peace.
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    Korean War

  • The Geneva Accords

    Ended on July 24, 1954.
    Location: Geneva
    The Significance of this event was that it stated that Vietnam was to become an independent nation.

  • Launch of Sputnik

    Loacation: Soviet Union
    The Significance of this event was that is was the the world's first artificial satellite.

  • Warsaw Pact signed

    Location: Warsaw
    The Significance of this is that several countries were for a collective defense under a joint military command.
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    The Vietnam War

  • Berlin Crisis

    Ended on August 13, 1961
    Location: Berlin
    The significance if this was that is was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin.

  • U-2 Incident

    Location: Soviet Union
    The Significance of this was that the incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

  • Bay of Pigs

    Location: Cuba
    The significance if this was that invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro, bit it failed.
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    The Berlin Wall

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Ended on October 28,1962
    Location: Cuba
    The significance of this event is that it forced to great nations and super powers to reconsider a nuclear war and also determine that they have to coexist peacefully even though they were enemies.

  • Moscow-Washington Hotline Created

    Location: U.S. and Soviet Union
    John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to have a direct phone line to the Kremlin in Moscow.

  • John F. Kennedy Assassination

    Location: Dallas, Texas.
    it was significant becasue one of the most well known and said to be one of the best presidents was assissinated.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Location: Washington D.C.
    It was sifnificant becasue it was authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

  • The Tet Offensive

    Location: South Vietnam
    It was significant becasue some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.

  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Location: The Moon
    It was signicant becasue it was the first time humans went to the moon.

  • Richard Nixon Visits China

    Location: China
    It was significant becasue Richard Nixon took a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China.

  • SALT II Signed

    Location: Vienna
    It was signicant becasue it basically established numerical equality between the two nations in terms of nuclear weapons delivery systems. (United States and the Soviet Union)
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    Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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    Invasion of Grenada

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Location: Berlin
    It was significant becasue it symbolised the difference between the western democrats and the eastern communists and the way they thought Germany should be lead.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev Elected

    Location: Sovirt Union
    This was significant becasue he became the first president of the Soviet Union and Gorbachev promoted more peaceful international relations. He ordered Soviet troops to withdraw from Afghanistan.

  • The Soviet Union Collapses

    It was significant becasue the Soviet Union was no longer a country and it became part of Russia.