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Potspam Conference
Final wartime meeting dealing with the future of Jermaney and the Soviet Union and the war aganst Japain
Churchhill was replaced with clement attlee and France wasn't represented
U.S issued a serender ultiman to Japain on July 26th, Japain would be alloud access to raw materials if they serender -
Beginning of Cold War
Winston Churchill Speech
Iron curtain decended across europe
Germany divided into 4 parts (owned by allies)
Germany layed in the soviet
Civil War fought in greece
Marshall plan, 13 billion, rebuild western europe -
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Berlin/ Blockadde Airlift
At the end of WW2 a four power military commission called the komandatura had been set up to adminiser Berlin
blockade began on June 24th when Joseph Stalin restricted access to enough supplies for 36 days
Curtis E Lee led the airlift operation
Allies Formed a counter blockade which liifted Stalin's blockade on May 122th 1949 -
Sputnik 1
First artificial earth sateilite
U.s belived russia could spy on them
Fear of esponage and bombing
Sputnik increased tension
New beginning
22.8 inches, weighed 184.9lb -
U-2 Incident
a U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet airspace
Aircraft was flown by CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) pilot Francis Gray Powers and he was performing aerial reconnaissance when his plane was hit
Crashed in Sverdlovsk and Francis was captured
The incident was a great embrassment to the U.S. -
Berlin War
A physical barrier seperating West Berlin from East Berlin/ the rest of East Germany (13 feet)
People trying to escape were "traitors"
More than 23,400 East Germans tried to flee to the west side but hunderds died doing so -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviet plan to install nuclear missles on the islands nation of Cuba.
U.S. forces transported about 1500 cuban dissidents to the island
Soviet Union began the transport of nuclear ballistic missiles in October 1962 -
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Vietnam War
Caused massive disruption in Southeast Asia/ U.S.
Ended in complete commmunist take over of Vietnam
Jan. 27th 1963 the Paris Peace accord was signed,which officaly ended the U.S. involvement in the war
Also known as the second Indochina War
North Vietnam (supported by Soviet Union/ China)
South Vietnam (supported by Phillippines/ U.S) -
Glasnot / Perestroika
Soviet union, falling apart economically
Policies perestroika and glasnot to reconstruct and political and economic system
Glasnot mears openness and for the social and political returns for the people
Policies in affect from 1985 till 1991
Boris Yeltsin elected president formed common wealth of independent states
Social freedoms premitted
These policies helped cause the fall of the soviet union and end the cold war -
Fall Communism/ Soviet Union
There were 11 republics the bacame independent at that time
The Russian Red Army defeted the counterrevolutionary force in the cluding many non- Russian ethnic nationalities
The cost of the Cold War combined with non- Russian ethnic centrugal forces inherent within the Soviet Union eventually brought about its downfall
