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postdam conference
On July 26, 1945, The British prime minister and the U.S president met in potsdam, Germany from July 27 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for end of world war 2 this happened because they wanted to make sure another world war would happen The deeply conflicting aims of the Western democracies on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other meant that Potsdam was to be the last Allied summit conference. -
the Korean war
On June 25, 1950, The north Korean communist army invaded non-communist south Korea because the Chinese army attacked U.S forces The boundary between North and South
Korea was set very close to the front line of June 1951. It extended from just south of the 38th parallel on the west to just north of the parallel on the east. -
NATO/Warsaw Pact
On May 14, 1955, The communist expansion prompted the united states and The deeply conflicting aims of the Western democracies on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other meant that Potsdam was to be the last Allied summit conference. 11 other western nations to form the north to form the north Atlantic treaty organization, The Soviet Union and its affiliated communist nations is eastern Europe founded a rival alliance -
viatnam
On November 1st, 1995 the Vietnamese started a war between the U.S when Vietcong planes hit marine ships in Pearl Harbor, killing hundreds of marines in the act. The Vietnamese did this because they felt that the U.S was going to attack them anyways, so they decided to throw the first strike. The U.S felt deeply threatened and the nation was in shock, but this didn't hold them back from launching an atomic bomb on Japan. -
suez crisis
On July 26, 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Nesser seized the suez canal from its french and british owners sparking an invasion by those Western nations and their ally Israel.this happened because the egyptian president tried to take the suez canal the suez crisis became a cold war confrontation and a test of the United nations. -
Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, The Soviet Union launched sputnik. Sputnik was launched into Sputnik to demonstrate their technological superiority to the U.S. Sputnik started on intense arms and space race between Russia and America. -
Cuban Revolution & Missile Crisis
In October 1962 an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba because the Soviet Union secretly placed nuclear tipped missiles on the communist led island of Cuba the soviets increased their investment in an arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the u.s from soviet territory. -
Glasnost/Perestroika
In 1980 the Soviet Union was engulfed by a multitude of problems. The economy, especially the agricultural sector, began to fall apart The country lacked technological advancements and used inefficient factories all while consumers were buying low-quality products and suffered from a shortage of social freedoms.the economy was in deterioration and social unrest was growing among the people. Glasnost and Perestroika eventually helped cause the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War