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Yalta Coference
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/yalta-confthe yalta conference took place in crimea U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. its significance was that it decided the fate of how europe would be shaped -
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The Cold War
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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" speech.
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe. this is sugnificant becouse it is considered to be the opening volleys annoucing the cold war. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
Under pressure from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, President Eduard Benes allows a communist-dominated government to be organized. this was significant becouse it took place during the height of Communism in the world. -
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” this is significant becouse the US did not expect the USSR to have the bomb so early. this changed the dynamics of politics in the international system. -
Federal Civil Defense Administration established
sense of American vulnerability, citizens began to think that they, too, could be attacked by the weapon that they deployed only years earlier. thsi was significant beocuse it led to increase fear within the US, increasing pressure on the hostility. -
KGB established
he KGB was the world’s largest spy and state-security machine, involved in all aspects of life of everyday people in the Soviet Union. this was important becouse it brought the spy game into international relations, which led to many different involvements of with small nations. -
Warsaw Pact formed.
was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. this was significant becouse it was the direct opposite of NATO. -
Soviets launch first man-made satellite.
Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators. this was significant becouse it lead to the space race within the cold war.increasing the pace of technological advancements. -
The construction of Berlin Wall begins.
“in order to put a stop to the hostile activity of West Germany’s and West Berlin’s revanchist and militaristic forces, border controls of the kind generally found in every sovereign state will be set up at the border of the German Democratic Republic, including the border to the western sectors of Greater Berlin. this was significant becouse it led to the diplomatic and civil rights tensions in eaurope. -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam, South Vietnam falls to Communist forces.
North Vietnamese tanks CRASHED through the gates of the Presidential Palace and the war came to an end. North Vietnamese Col. Bui Tin accepted the surrender from Gen. Duong Van Minh, who had taken over after Tran Van Huong spent only one day in power.this was significant becouse it gave more territory to the communist party -
Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles from Europe by signing treaty.
a treaty designed to eliminate U.S. and Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. this was significant becouse it tead to the elimination of U.S. and Soviet INF in Europe to U.S. termination of its development of the Strategic Defense Initiative -
Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania. Decline of the Soviet Empire.
this event was the beginning of the fall of the soviet empire leading to many independent countries coming to the international system. -
End of Soviet Union, and Cold War ends
Gorbachev's domestic reforms had run into serious trouble, and the economy went into a tailspin. The centrifugal forces in the "outer empire" stimulated and accelerated those in the "inner empire", as the Soviet republics sought sovereignty and then independence. As the center disintegrated. this was significant becouse it ended the long technological and relations war. with very little amount of casuelties.
