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Clifford-Elsey Report
Truman is presented with the Clifford-Elsey Report, a document which listed Soviet violations of agreements with the United States. http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/coldwar/documents/sectioned.php?documentid=4-1&pagenumber=1&groupid=1 -
Truman Doctrine
This is President Trumans policy saying he will provide aid to any country resisting the Communists http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=81 -
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO Founded
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is founded by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in order to stop the communists. http://orientalreview.org/2013/05/06/nato-and-its-future-in-post-cold-war-scenario/ -
Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin dies, setting off a struggle about who will follow be the next leader. http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-stalin-9491723 -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is founded in Eastern Europe and includes East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It acts as the Communist counterpart to NATO. http://jdayhistory.weebly.com/nato-and-warsaw-pact.html -
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Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century (1955-1972) competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for who is the best space country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race -
USSR aids Afghanistan
USSR sent military aid to Afghanistan. They requested Soviet troops to provide security and to assist in the fight against the rebels. http://www.operationworld.org/country/afgh/owtext.html
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Bay of Pigs invasion
400 Cuban exiles failed at an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/cia-claims-release-of-its-history-of-the-bay-of-pigs-debacle-would-confuse-the-public/
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A crisis where the US and USSR were the closest to declaring a nuclear war. They came up with an agreement, that basically said that we can both destroy the world, so lets not. http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/50 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis -
Cut Back on Nuclear Weapons
US President Lyndon Johnson and Nikita Khrushchev in announce at the same time plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons. http://www.worldpolicy.org/blog/2013/03/19/less-more-reducing-american-nuclear-missile-defense-europe -
SALT l
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) agreement starts relations between the US and USSR
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Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes USSR Leader
Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union, the next year he declared glasnost ( a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.) and perestroika. ( a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s ) http://www.russianarts.org/rno/photos.cfm?Photos=Guest&Code=710 http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm -
Berlin Wall Demolished
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step to making Germany whole again. Overall it took about 300 days for the whole thing to be demolished. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/berlinwallrev2.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall#Demolition -
Cold War Ends
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. http://www.frccusa.org/Russian_American_Library.html
http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp
