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THE BEGINNING
United States of America and the Soviet Union, two important powers. Each had a groups of countries that supported them since the 50´s. -
BERLIN CRISIS
One of the most tense period of international relationships during the Cold War. This situation was caused by the division of Berlin between the victorious powers of World War II (1945) and the subsequent formation of a West Berlin and East Berlin -
U.S. LOSE NUCLEAR MONOPOLY
In 1945 the United States had a monopoly on nuclear weapons. lost some of the advantage in 1949, when the USSR experienced its first bomb in Siberia. In 1952, Britain experienced its first atomic bomb, and in 1960 he succeeded France. Four years later, China conducted the tests and then accumulated a large arsenal -
KOREAN WAR
Was a war between South Korea, supported by the U.S. and UN against North Korea, supported by the Republic of China, with the help of the Soviet Union. -
DEATH OF STALIN ADN COMES TO POWER EISENGOHER
Stalin dies and is replaced by Malenkov and Bulganin.
Truman ended as president of the United States of America and starts with the power Eisenhower. -
CONSTRUCTION OF THE BERLIN WALL
The Eastern bloc dominated by the Soviets officially claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements. -
THE MISSILE CRISIS IN CUBA
In 1959 Fidel Castro, was consolidated in power .In 1961, came from a group of Cuban exiles, an attempted landing at the Bay of Pigs, supported by the CIA. That prompted the USSR nuclear missiles installing it on the island, pointing to the United States. President Kennedy ordered the blockade of the island to prevent an attack. After several days,Khrushchev ordered the return of the boats and Kennedy lifted the blockade. Cuba became a communist country allied to the USSR. -
VIETNAM WAR
Also called War of Indochina.Was a war that pitted South Vietnam, supported by the United States against North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, in the general context of the Cold War. After the end of the conflict in 1975, the Vietnam War was marked in history as the first military defeat of the United States. -
RONALD REAGAN AS PRESIDENT
Reagan's second term was marked primarily by foreign affairs, the most important was the end of the Cold War -
GORBACHOV IN THE POWER OF THE USSR
The process that led to the fall of the Wall, was initiated in the mid-1980s by the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Corbachov. This process involved a gradual elimination of strategic military conflict with the Western bloc, ie the scheduled termination of the Cold War. -
DISSOLVE THE SOCIALIST BLOC
The reform of the Soviet system had not imagined development by its initiators. In a few years, the communist regime collapsed, the Soviet Union imploded, and virtually disappeared as a world power -
FALL OF BERLIN WALL
The opening of the Wall, known in Germany under the name of die Wende, was a result of the need for freedom of movement in the former GDR and the constant escapades to the embassies of countries capital Prague and Warsaw Pact and the border between Hungary and Austria.
