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Yalta Conference
This was a meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt (The Big Three world powers) discussing about WWII, United Nations, and what would happen to Poland. -
V-Day
Victory in Europe day. On this day it was the uncondotional surrender of the German Army to the Russians. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
This is the day that they United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and then two later dropped another bomb on the 8th in Nagasaki. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave his Iron Curtain spech that has the famous quote "...an iron curian has desecended on Europe". -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman said that he would help any country facing a communist takeover, which affected the way the Russians lived, and caused issues with them growing as a country. -
Berlin Blockade
With the formation of West Germany and Germany and also Splitting Belin into one side and the other. The Russains put a blockade around the West Berlin not allowing food to come into West Berlin. Since Berlin was not in West Germany there was not much West Germany could do at the time -
Korean War
The war between North and South Korea began when North Korea decided to invade the South Korea. -
Geneva Accord
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. -
Stalin's Death
Stalin died on this day and he was the one that led Russia since the 1920s with their power in communism. His heir to the throne was Malenkov. -
Space Race
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was a failed attempt the United States CIA that trained a force of exiles to try and overthrow Fidel Castro and his communist goverenment. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A United States spy plane reported seeing a Russian nuclear missle base in Cuba, which led Kennedy to create a Naval Blockade and demanded removal of missiles. -
Vietnam War
15,000 United States troops were sent to Vietnam to end communism in the area -
US and Other countries boycott Summer Olympics
The United States and other countries boycotted the the Summer Olympics in Moscow in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall around Berlin was finally down allowing families to see each other and no longer being block off from the rest of Berlin/Germany. -
GEermany as one
East and West Germany were no longer split apart, but became one country again. -
Gorbachev resigned/ End of Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag on the Kremlin was lowered. Then on the next day, it was the end of the Soviet Union Era.
