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Yalta: The Beginning of the End
The Yalta Conference was held towards the end of World War II. Many decisions were made at this conference which led to many fronts of the Cold War, most notably, Germany. -
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The Cold War
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First Atomic Bomb
The U.S. used atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By doing this they started a costly invasion of Japan. -
Berlin
The city of Berlin became a centerpiece of the Cold War, playing a particularly significant role in Europe. East met West in this divided city where the Berlin wall was a tangible symbol of the "Iron Curtain." -
Mao Zedong
A Communist takes over China. He converted China into a single-party socialist state. Until his death he governed China as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. -
The Korean War
On June 25th, 1950, the powder keg exploded. North Korea, with the backing of the Soviet Union, attacked South Korea. The United States quickly moved to get United Nations condemnation of the attack. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik which was the first satellite launched into space. -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro takes ovver Cuba. He who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was an American invasion of Cuba that only lasted 3 days. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall begins
The city of Berlin became a centerpiece of the Cold War, playing a particularly significant role in Europe. East met West in this divided city where the Berlin wall was a tangible symbol of the "Iron Curtain." After World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones administered by four nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 14 dyas confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. This was the closest incident where the Cold War came to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
First Man to Walk on the Moon
Apollo 11 carried an American man who was the first man that officially landed on the moon. -
All Missels were removed from Europe
All intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe under the agreement of Reagan and Gorbachev. -
Reagan and Gorbachev
The two men agreed to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing a treaty. -
Berlin Wall Falls
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990. -
Warsaw Pact Ends
The military alliance between the Soviet Union and the surrounding eastern European satellites comes to an end. -
End of the Soviet Union
The fall of the Soviet Union began to happen when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. At a Central Committee meeting in April of 1985, Gorbachev and his allies called for "revolutionary changes". In a July of '86 speech the new leader said of the term perestroika, "I would equate it with the word 'revolution.'"
