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The Cold War

By kkuberski

  • Yalta Conference- Cold War Beging

    The "Big Three" (FDR, Churchill, Stalin) meet at conference. Soviet gains control over East Europe.
  • End of World War II

    End of World War II

    Japan surrenders after U.S drops two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Churchill Iron Curtain Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Berlin Blockade Begins

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    NATO Ratified

    Berlin Blockade ends and People's Republic of China forms.

  • Korean War Begins

    Stalin supports North Korea and equips North Korea with Soviet weapons.
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    Nuclear Arms Race

  • Korean War Ends

  • KGB Established

  • Warsaw Pact Forms

  • Sputnik launched

    Sputnik launched

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    Explorer Launched

    Khrushchev demands withdraw of troops from Berlin.
  • Period: to

    Castro Takes Over Cuba

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    Kennedy Elected/ Soviet Cuba

    John F. Kennedy is elected as U.S President. Cuba officially announces its alignment with the Soviet Union.
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    Bay of Pigs/ Berlin Wall Built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • President Kennedy Assaissinated

    President Kennedy Assaissinated

  • Gorbachev Announced as Leader of Soviet Union

    Announces campaigns, "glasnost" and "perestroika".
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    Decline of Soviet Union

    Berlin Wall is demolished and Communist government falls.

  • Boris Yeltsin Elected as President of Russia

  • End of Cold War

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