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Yalta Conference
This is the day the Big Three, FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorgainization. This also mark the start of the Cold War. -
United Nations Created
This is a national organization to settle world problems and avoid armed conflicts. -
Arms Race
This is the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to create and superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons. This begins after the United States uses the atomic bomb. -
Marshall Plan
This was the American initiative to aid Western Europe. It gave approximately 13 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after World War 2 -
Berlin Blockade
This was the attempt made by the Soviet Union to limit France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to travel in sectors of Berlin. -
Council for Mutual Assistance
COMECON is the Soviet plan to aid in the rebuilding Soviet block nations. -
North Atlantic Treaty Orgainization
This is the organization providing mutal help if attacked. Its members consitsted of the USA, Britain, France, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Norway. -
Korean War Begins
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Korean War
North Korea communist arm invaded non-communist South Korea. North Korean and soviet tanks overran South Korea so the Us came to South Korea's aid. There was so definite winner, things went back to the way they were. -
Joseph Stalin
This day was relief to many because the reign was over. -
Korean War ends
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Warsaw Pact
This is a military alliance of Communist Block nations including the USSR, East Germany, Albania, Czech, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. -
Vietnam War Begins
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Vietnam War
The conflict pitted communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam against the South Vietnam government and its allies, the United States leading to the overall victory to the US. -
Space Race begins
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Space Race
This competition between the USSR and the Us for superiority in spaceflight capability. The USSR launched the first artificial satellite in 1957, but the US officially won when Buzz and Neil landed on the moon in 1969. -
Nikita Khrushchev gains power
This is the man who is responsible for the De-Salinization of USSR after the death of Stalin -
U-2 incident
An American spy plane was shot down by the Soviets on this day and the pilot was taken prisoner. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
This was the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles supported by the US government -
Berlin Wall
This wall divided Berlin from East Germany and West Germany. The goal of the wall was to keep East Germans in the city. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This was a 13 day confrontation between the US and the USSR concerning missiles in Cuba. This was the closest the Cold War came to becoming a Nuclear War. -
Space Race ends
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Vietnam War Ends
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan starts
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
This is the time period when the USSR tried to take Afghanistan and the US supplies the Afghan Rebels with weapons and supplies. -
INF treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty made the Us and the Soviet Union eliminate all nuclear and ground-launched missiles. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan ends
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German Unification
The day when the Federal Republic of Germany and the Democratic Republic of Germany united to create one federal Germany.
