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Beginning Of The Cold War
Began Shortly after world war two and ended in 1945. Although, the soviet union was an important member of the allied powers, there was a distinct mistrust between the soviet union and the rest of the allies. The cold war came to an end with the colapse of the soviet union in 1991. -
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The Cold War
worldwide struggle for power and influene, soviet communism and american capitialism or democracy. -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting (held on july 17 - August 2, 1945) of the principal of allies in world war 2 to clarify and implemented agreements previously reached at the yalta conference. The allies set up a new system of rule for germany aimed at outlawing national socialism and abolishhing Nazi ideology. -
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 a major clash of the cold war and foreshadowed the conflict that berlin was going to have. -
Berlin Wall
At the end of WW 2 the country of germany split intot wo sepereate countries.East Germany became a communist country under the control of the soviet union.At the same time west Germany was a democratic country and allied britan. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
On October 14, 1962 an American spy plane flying over Cuba captured pictures of long range Soviet missiles in Cuba. This was a crisis like never before. These missiles could reach any point of the United States with nuclear warheads causing mass distruction. -
Vietnam War
The war in Vietnam occurred during the Cold War, and is generally viewed as an indirect conflict between the United States and Soviet Union, with each nation and its allies supporting one side. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and in an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. -
Glasnot and Perestroika
The communist party wanted to create a semi-free market system that they belived would enhance the government and economy.However things like this take time, as they did not realize, and it soon failed leading to strikes. -
Fall of Communism
The reform movement that ended communism in east central Europe began in Poland. Solidarity, an anti-communist trade union and social movement, had forced Poland's communist government to recognize it in 1980 through a wave of strikes that gained international attention. In 1981, Poland's communist authorities, under pressure from Moscow.They arrested Solidarity's leaders, and banned the democratic trade union.
