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Feb 4-11 -- Yalta Conference -- Genesis of Cold War
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the Allied war effort against Germany and Japan and to try and settle some nagging diplomatic issues. -
Joesph Stalin Speech
Stalin hostile speech - communism & capitalism were incompatible -
Brussels Pact
Organized to protect Europe from communism. -
NATO Creation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
March 17-June 4 Nuclear Arms Race atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site
Atomic test series of 11 explosions at Nevada Test Site
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Warsaw Treaty Organization
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963
In the early 1960s, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev each expressed deep concern about the strength of their respective nations’ nuclear arms forces. This concern led them to complete the first arms control agreement of the Cold War, the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963 -
Gulf of Tonkin
Two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. -
THE USS PUEBLO INCIDENT
USS Pueblo left its port in Sasebo, Japan to embark on a surveillance mission in the Sea of Japan. Although the U.S. Navy publicly termed the mission a research ship conducting oceanographic studies, the true undertaking of the naval vessel remained clandestine. Planning to monitor and collect North Korean and Soviet electronic communications, in addition to analyzing the naval activity surrounding several major North Korean ports, the crew of the Pueblo and the American government never suspect -
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty (SALT) I
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
The Helsinki Final Act
The Helsinki Final Act was an agreement signed by 35 nations that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland. The multifaceted Act addressed a range of prominent global issues and in so doing had a far-reaching effect on the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet relations. -
U.S. and China Establish Diplomatic Relations
In the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations dated January 1, 1979, the United States transferred diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika." -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends. Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries.
