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World War II Ends in Europe
The end of WWII and the beginning of The Cold War were almost simultanious. -
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The Cold War
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Potsdam Conference
The United States President Harry Truman met with Winston Churchill of Britian, and Jospeh Stalin to negotiate terms and divide Europe. U.S. started suspicion of communist governments in Soviet. -
Communist Government in Albania
The first communist government was set up by the Soviet Union in Albania, and was the beginning of the Communist take over -
Communism and Capitalism Declared Incompatible
Stalin declared that communism and capitalism were incompatible in Moscow at a meeting of Voters of the Stalin Electoral District -
Attlee Speech
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee addressed the United Nations on the subject of Atomic Energy and if it should be banned or studied, etc. -
Greece and Turkey
The United States began to formulate an aid plan to help Greece and Turkey. The Russians were demanding military bases in Turkish Striats and the British assisstance to Turkey was about to end. -
Communist Seize Poland
Soviets seize power in Poland, and install a communist government. The Cold War and communist outbreak is growing. -
Truman Doctorine Announced
The Truman Doctorine was President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an aim to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food, fuel, and aid, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Ended May, 1949. -
NATO Established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe -
Warsaw Pact
During the Cold Warm,The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between 8 communist States of Central and Eastern Europe -
First Man-Made Satellite Launch
The Soviet Union was competing with the United States among other countries to launching the first satellite into outter space, and the Soviets succeeded in doing so. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba, and installs a communist government. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba also known in Hispanic America as Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Berlin Wall Built
The Berlin Wall was built in East Germany around the soviet contoled portion of berlin to stop the exedous of East Germans. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A big nuclear war scare!! After the US had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy, aimed at Moscow, and the failed US attempt to overthrow the Cuban regime, in May 1962 Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt. -
China Launches First Atomic Bomb
China exploded an atomic bomb, thereby successfully carrying out its first nuclear test. This is nuclear weapons for defence and for protecting the Chinese people from U.S. threats to launch a nuclear war -
South Vietnam
U.S. commits combat troops into South Vietnam starting the Vietnam War, that occured during the period of The Cold War -
Red Army Crushes Czech Republic
The Soviet Red Army crushes the Czech Republic and turning it to communist forces. -
Nixon Visits China
United States president Richard Nixon visits China to formalize the relations between China and the United States. -
Fall of Saigon
Soviet Red Army takes over South Vietnam and they fall into a communists government as well. -
Afghanistan Falls Under Red Army
Red Army invades Afghanistan and turns them communist -
China Reform
Led by university students, over one million Chinese in Tiananmen Square demand reforms by the Chinese Communist government. Beginning of the end of The Cold War. -
First Post-War Non-Communist Government Formed
Solidarity forms the first post war non communist government in Poland, leading more into the fall of the Soviet Union and Communist over take. -
Hungary Declares Non Communist
Hungary declared their government to be non communist. -
Berlin Wall Demolished
East Germany allowed for nonrestricted migration to West Germany, demolishing the Berlin Wall and starting the final steps to end the Cold War -
Bush and Gorbachev Agree to German Reunification
United States president George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to the reunification of Germany to be finalized in 1994. -
Soviet Union Abolished
The Soviet Union was abolished, and so was the communist overthrow in countries. The Cold War was decalred over, and Boris Yeltsin becomes president of Russia and the new Socialist government.
