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Yalta Conference
The Big Three Churchill (Great Britain), President Roosevet (USA), & Stalin (Soviet) at the end of World War II agreed that Stalin would join the fight against Japan to end World War II along as the United States & Great Britain allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe after the War. The Soviet Union agreed to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. This would establish the division in Europe between the United States (Western Europe) & the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe) that would be -
Truman Doctrine
an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman on March 12, 1947 which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling under attack and domination by the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Aircraft
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post, World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Began June, 24 1948 and ended May, 12 1949 -
NATO Pact
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization agrees to mutal defense in response to attack by any external party. -
Korean War
The Korean war was a war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
Warshaw Pact
the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. -
Vietnam War
A Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The bay of pigs invasion was an unsucessful invasion of Cuba by the paramilitary group on April 17, 1961. A counter-revolutionary military trained and funded by the United States CIA. -
Berlin Wall
a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It was one of the major confrontations of the Cold War. -
The end of the Cold War
The cold war ended in the 1980's, one reason for this was that the economies of nations behind the iron curtain were in trouble.
