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NATO forms
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was forned on April 4, 1949. The United States, Canada, and Western European nations formed this treaty to provide secutiry against the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation that brought food and other supplies to West Berlin by air. This started afer East Germany cut off its ssupplies. The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe. -
Korean War starts
The Korean War began when 75,000 soldiers from North Korea crossed over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
There was containment in the Korean war to stop the spread of communism. -
US H-bomb
The United States tested out their first H-bomb, giving it a short-lived advantange in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. A Hydrogen Bomb is a new weapon that is 1,000 times for powerful than conventional nuclear devices. -
Warsaw Pact
A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countires. -
Sovierts launch Sputnik
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I on October 4, 1957. Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be launched into space. It was only the size of a beach ball and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built between East and West Berlin. Its purpose was to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany.
During this time, the Cold War was going on. The Cold War was a state of political hostility between countries by threats, propaganda, and open warfare. The Berlin Wall is the most powerful an denduring symbol of the Cold War -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The United States and Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff over the intallation of nuclear-armed Soviet missles in Cuba -
SALT I agreement is signed
Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet president, and Richard Nixon, United Staes president, met in Moscow to sign the SALT I agreement, The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks was the most far-reaching attempt to control nuclear weapons. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
After the deaths of his competition, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to becone the new leader of the Soviet Union.
Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party. This was associated with Mikhail Gorbachev with his glasnost policy reform. -
Major arms control agreement is reached
The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was written in 1987 and and signed into law in 1988. This was an agreement between the United States and Soviet union to eliminate nuclear and conventional bound mussles between the two countries.
During this time, detente was reached, which means the easing of hositilty on strained relations -
Iron Curtain begins to crumble in Europe
The Iron Curtain was finally lifted on June 27, 1989 after Winstons Churchills speech
The Iron Curtain is a barrier separating the Communist nations of Eatern Europe and the noncommnist nations. -
Soviet Union collapses
The Soviet Union collapsed due to the great number of radical reforms that Mikhail Gorbachev had implemnted. He resigned his on Christmas Day -
European Union established
The Maastricht Treaty was signed on February 7, 1992, to intergrate Europe -
Al Qaeda attacked the United States
The terrorists attack on 9/11 was the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in the United States History. Al Queda was an international organization of those affiliated cells that carry out attacks and bombings. -
United States invaded Iraq
The Iraq War was a military conflict tgat began with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq for 24 years.
