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The Beginning
The Yalta Conference occurs. Post-war status of Germnay. Allie of World War II (USA, USSR, Great Britain and France) divide Germany into four occupation zones. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); is founded by Belguim, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, netherlands, norway, portugal, the U.K, and the U.S in order to resist communist expansion. -
Soviet Union
Soviet Union sent troops to present communist rule in the East German. -
Hungarian Revolution
Revolted against the Soviet and dominated government, they are crushed by the soviet military, which reinstates a communist government. -
Himalayan War
On this date it was the end of the Himalayan War. China occupies a small strip of indian land. -
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy was shot and killed. Some speculate communist countries or even CIA were involved in assassination. -
U.S Navy
A U.S. Navy reconnaissance Plane with 31 men aboard was lost Tuesday (April 15, 1969) in the Far East and Communist North Korea claimed they shot it down "with a single shot at a high altitude." -
Troops in Vietnam
By the fall of 1972, however, troop strength in Vietnam was below 50,000 and the military draft, which had caused so much campus discontent, was all but dead. A cease-fire, negotiated for the United States by Nixon's national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, was signed in 1973. -
National Guard
The 1980s resulted in a massive defense buildup under President Ronald Reagan. The National Guard received increased funding, modern equipment, and improved annual training. By 1989, the National Guard's strength reached to a national peacetime high. -
Soviet Union
The civilian airliner Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was downed by Soviet fighter jets near Moneron Island. In November 1983, NATO conducted a military exercise known as "Able Archer 83". -
Europe
There was widespread unrest in eastern Europe. Gorbachev did not intervene as one eastern European country after another cut its ties with the Soviet Union. -
Economy
Even the stock market crash of October 1987 did little to undermine the confidence of middle-class and wealthy Americans in the president’s economic agenda. Many also overlooked the fact that Reagan’s policies created record budget deficits: In his eight years in office, the federal government accumulated more debt than it had in its entire history. -
Berlin War
Crews of German troops tore down the Berlin Wall. While many had taken axes and picks to the Wall upon the collapse of Communism in Germany in 1989, the official destruction of the Berlin Wall did not begin until June, 1990. -
Declared Independence
Nationalist leaders like Yeltsin were far more popular than he could hope to become. In December 1991, Ukraine, BYELORUSSIA, and RUSSIA itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved. -
The End
"The end of the Cold War is our common victory"
-Mickhail Gorbachev
