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Most important diplomatic milestones of the Cold War.

  • Start of the Cold War

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  • Ceasefire agreement in Panbujan

    It is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.
  • Conference in Bandung

    Representatives from twenty-nine governments of Asian and African nations gathered in Bandung, Indonesia to discuss peace and the role of the Third World in the Cold War, economic development, and decolonization.
  • Solution of the Cuban Missle Crisis

    After the blockade, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent a letter to Kennedy. Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba if the United States promised not to invade Cuba and to eventually remove missiles from Turkey. Khrushchev openly removed missiles from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • SALT I

    It is intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.
  • Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control

    It was a two-day summit held on November 23 and 24, 1974 in Vladivostok for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States.
  • Helsinki Accords

    It was the document signed at the closing meeting of the third phase of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe.
  • SALT II

    It sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. It was a continuation of the SALT I talks and was led by representatives from both countries.
  • Boycott of the Summer Olimpics in Moscow

    USA and allies boycotted the Summer Olimpycs to protest the Invasion of Afganistan by the USSR
  • Summit in Malta

    Bush and Gorbachev anounced the end of the cold war