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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States -
Arms Race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Unified Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order -
Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. 1947-1991 -
Marshall Plan
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. -
Berlin Aircraft
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Joseph stalin dies
Joseph Stalin dies -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
March 5th Stalin Dies, He came to power -
KGB
Secret Police of the Soviet Union. -
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Vietnam War
Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -
De-Stalinization
the policy of eradicating the memory or influence of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism, especially after 1956. -
space race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States. -
European Economic Community
The European Economic Community was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses -
U-2 Incident
U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
John F Kennedy became President
John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when it was destroyed. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war -
Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan
The War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
2 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees -
INF Treaty
To get rid of the short range missiles -
German re-unification
Berlin unified into one city -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power
The Congress of People’s Deputies elects General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. While the election was a sucsess for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991 -
U.S.S.R Breakup
On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor
