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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was of February 1945 and took place at Crimea. This conference is where , Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin issued the Yalta Agreement. The conference was mainly tryto deal with the fate of postwar Europe, their decision also make it to the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall plan was a economic program of the United States for helping rebuild and create a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe after war. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. This was the first crisis of Cold War. -
NATO
Britain, France, the United States, Canada and eight other western European countries signed the Treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, It's role during the Cold War was to provide security for it's member states against the potential threat posed by Soviet Union. -
Korean War
The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II, which United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North. This war form the global tensions of the Cold War . -
DE-STALINIZATION
Nikita Khrushchev is the leder of Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, he was also the one who begin the de-stalinization process, which by gaving a long speech that criticized Stalin for arresting and deporting opponents. -
Berlin Crisis
It was the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States ,they were concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. And this lead to the construction of the Berlin Wall . -
Sino-Soviet split
Sino-Soviet was the worsening of political relations between Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War. China and the Soviet Union were the two largest communist states in the world and the relations between the two communist powers had completely collapsed. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was begins when a CIA-financed and -some group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and try to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. However, this attack was an utter failure. This also cause to the later cuban missile crisis . -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis is one of a very important moment in Cold War, It happened when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962 to protect Cuba from attacks by the United States. John F. Kennedy revealing Soviet nuclear missile on the island, and he ended twelve days later on October 28, 1962, when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that the installations would be dismantled. -
Sino-American rapprochement
As a result of the Sino-Soviet split, tensions between Chinese and Soviet border come to their their peak , President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance of power towards the West in the Cold War. Nixon announced a rapprochement with Mao's China by traveling to Beijing. And the tensions were start to ease. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks( SALT)
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) involving the United States and the Soviet Unionon of the issue of armament control, and this involve two round of talks and agreements . -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet War in Afghanistan was part of the cold war and was the key in destroying one of the Cold War world's two superpowers. It was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups. At early 1989, the Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan. -
strategic defense initiative (Star Wars )
President Ronald Reagan proposed his plan for Star Wars, the plan was aimed to development some of advanced missile defense technologies. The plan had very important impact on the U.S.-Soviet relations and played a successful role in the events that led to the end of the cold war . -
Berlin Wall Torn Down
The Berlin Wall was torn down because of the political changes in Europe,Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev lost his control by 1990, and the Soviet Union fell apart. The Berlin wall torn down means that the East Germans could now be free to travel west and be free. -
Soviet dissolution
Soviet union become weaken becuase of the economice and military problem and was eventually collapsed at 1991. Representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. However, it was a peaceful end to a long cold war.
