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Postdam Conference
From July 17 to August 2 an allied conference of World War II was held in potsdam. Leaders met there to discuss peace settlements for Europe, discuss the occupation of Africa, and the Soviet Union’s role in Eastern Europe. There they wanted to discuss the issues surrounding them. This meeting was to plan the plans they already had. Due to this, many people were killed from Atomic bombs and no other conference was held. -
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Korean War
From June 1950 to July 1953 the invasion of South Korea began. Soon after the U.S called for a withdrawal of North Korea from South Korea. This caused the Soviet Union to split into a communist sphere and a Democratic sphere. This created the 38th parallel. The result of this ended up taking 1,300,000 lives of south koreans, 1,000,000 chinese, 500,000 North Koreans and 37,000 Americans. This was a deadly war. -
Nato/Warsaw Pact:
The treaty was signed on May 14, 1955 and a couple years later Albania withdrew in 1968. The Warsaw treaty was formed which was a political and military alliance between the soviet union and several eastern europe countries. In 1949 communist expansion prompted the US and 11 other western nations to form the north Atlantic treaty. The Soviet Union and its affiliated communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a new alliance. One of the two opposing camps formalized the European context. -
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Vietnam War:
Between 1945 and 1954, the Vietnamese waged an anti-colonial war against France, that received 2.6 billion dollars in financial support from the United States. This defeat was followed by a peace conference in Geneva. As a result Laos,Cambodia, and Vietnam received their independence, and Vietnam was temporarily divided between an anti-Communist South and a Communist North division. By 1958, Communist-led guerrillas,Viet Cong, began to battle the South Vietnamese government. -
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Suez Crisis
This precipitated on July 26, 1956. This occurred when the Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal. A fight over who controlled the canal. This was provoked by an American and British decision not to finance Egypt’s construction of a high dam as promised. This ended in Israel not winning their freedom to use the canal. They regained shipping rights while Britain and France lost their influence in the Middle East. -
Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, THe Soviet Union launched Sputnik. Sputnik was the first satellite launched into space. The Soviets launched Sputnik to demonstrate the technological superiority to the United states. Sputnik started on intense arms and space between Russia and America. -
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Cuban Revolution/Missile Crisis:
Cuban Revolution/Missile Crisis: In October 1962, Cuba had nuclear missiles away from US shores. This was a 13-day political and military standoff happened of the Soviet missiles in Cuba aimed for the US. The Soviet Union was threatened by the US’s number of arms and weren’t able to attack from both sides. This ended up leaving the Americans and the Soviet Union exchanged letters/deals of withdrawing the missiles. On October 28, the crisis was over. -
Glasnost/Perestroika
This was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his policy reform, Glasnost.