Cold War By WilliamHudson 1945 est. of U.S. and U.S.S.R. powers 1945 democratic government was est in west Germany and west Berlin 1945 us occupation of japan under MacArthur's admin. japan dominant economy in Asia 1945 United Nations 1945 Yalta conference and soviet control of eastern Europe 1946 Iron Curtain 1947 free enterprise system vs dictatorship and communism 1947 President Truman and Policy of Containment 1948 Marshall plan 1948 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1949 Nato est. 1949 jiang jieshi 1949 Mao zedong 1949 chinese civil war 1949 Chiang became leader of nationalist china 1949 Mao became leader of communist china 1950 Korean Conflict 1953 Nuclear weapons and theory of deterrence 1954 battle at dien bien phu 1954 ho chi minh became the leader of north vietnam 1955 Warsaw pact est. 1956 Vietnam war 1956 containment theory in vietnam 1961 Berlin wall was built 1962 Cuban Missile crisis 1966 Indira Ghandi developed closer relationship with soviets and nuclear program 1973 Paris peace accords 1974 indira gandhi 1975 Paris Peace accords ended fighting in vietnam 1975 North vietnam defeated south vietnam 1975 deng xiaoping reformed chinas economy 1979 margaret thatcher close relationship with u.s 1981 Deng Xiaoping 1985 fall of soviet union 1989 tearing down of berlin wall 1989 berlin wall down-east and west germany unified 1991 soviet economic collapse 1991 break up of soviet union 1991 Mikhail grobachev