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Yalta Conference
At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and etc. -
Potsdam Conference
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Creation of The United Nations
The United Nations was established to maintain international peace and security and to achieve cooperation among nations on economic, social, and humanitarian problems. -
Truman Doctrine
Is an American foreign policy that established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Blockade
Was an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
The Korean Was a conflict between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by the UN with the U.S. as principal participant. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states. -
Space Race
The space race was a 20th Century struggle between two nation-states, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US). -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962 the Soviet Union began to secretly install missiles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S. cities. -
Soviet-Afghan War
Was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall - November 9, 1989
After half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The coup diminished Gorbachev's power and propelled Yeltsin and the democratic forces to the forefront of Soviet and Russian politics.