-
Yalta Conference
The big three(Stalin,Churchill, and Roosevelt. deided what
would happen when the war endded. There was a specific focus on Germany. -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin,Churchill, and Truman met in Berlin,Germany to discuss what to do when the war ended. They decided on splitting Germany into four occupation zones, hunting down nazi war criminals. and issuing an ultimatum to Japan. -
Iron Curtainn
Churchill described that an iron curtain had fallen seperating the free world from the communist and their bufferr zone -
Berlin Blockade
Soviets stopped all trade to Eastern Berlin in an attempt to claim the capital that lay within the Soviet occupied German state. -
Berlin Airlift
In an attempt to give supplies to blockaded west Berlin the U.N. organized a series of deliveries by plain. -
The Atomic Bomb
The soviets dropped their first atomic bomb on this day. Knowing that the USSR had nukes people starting building shelters to hide in in case of a fallout or that WWIII would have started. -
N.A.T.O.
Nato was formed by thr leaders of the free world. There goal was to stop Communism, but they were also doing itsstop Russia from launching all of its nukes. -
McCarthyism
Fueled on by the red scare senator McCarthy focused on finding
communist in the USA to get rid of them -
Korean War
In August of 1945 Korea split at the 38th parallel. On June 25tth, 1950 Communkist North Korea invaded Nationalist South Korea. The US sent in troops to aid the south and the Soviets sent help to the northern Koreans. On July 27th 1953 an armistice was signed and U.S. troops withdrew. However the divide was still split at the 38th parallel. -
Warsaw Pact
The soviets developed an alliance of communissh in order to counteract NATO -
The Eisenhower Doctor
Eisenhower proclaimed that the US would send militairy aid wherver it was needed in the middle east. -
Arms Race
The first Hydrogen Bomb is tested with the force of 100 atom bombs. This led to a race between the Soviets and the U.S.to build bigger and stronger weapons in mass quantities. -
Space Race
The space race begins when the USSR launches the first satellite into space. This satellite was Sputnik and it would start a 30 year soace race between the USA and the USSR. -
The U-2 incident
The US U2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR and the pilot was captured. This would cause the US to have to exchange spies with the USSR and to own up to spying on the USSR. This would greatly raise tensions between the US and the USSR. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S. trained Cuban fighters and sent them to Cuba to try and dispose Castro. The operation failed miserably and was seen as a major blunder of JFKs -
Creation of the Berlin wll
The Berlin Wall was formed to keep from WesternGermans from getting out and into East Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This event took place from October 14th through October 28th. In this event the USSR tried to send Nuclear weapons into Cuba. This would put a missile base within 90 miles of the US mainland. The US put up a blockade of Cuba and eventually the USSR backed down. -
Test Ban Treaty
The three nuclear powers USA, UK, and USSR signed this treaty banning the test of nuclear weapons and limiting the future production of nuclear arms. -
Vietnam War
The northern vietcong got supplies from china, however we gave supples to southern viernam -
The Brezhnev Doctrine
The brezhnev doctrine counteracted Eisenhower doctrine by proclaiming to send the middle east military aid. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon was the first president to go to a communist ciuntry and set up relations with them. -
The Fall of of the Berllin wall
The Democratic west Germans and communist
east Germans.Thie wall was officialy destroyed unswe Gorebachev. -
Dissolution of the U.S.S.R.
The Soviet Union aknowledged the independance of its satellite states on this date and premier Gobachev gave up his title. This became the aknowled end of the U.S.S.R. -
Potsdam Conference
The big three met and discussed what they were going to doonce the war was over.Unlike Yalta there was a lot of disagreement at Potsdam. -
Buffer Zone
The Soviet Union wanted protection because they were attacked constanly in the past. And then they could make a communist sphere of infuence
