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The senate approved the UN charter on july 28, 1945, by a vote of 89 to 2 The United Nations came into existence on October 24, 1945 after 29 nations had ratified the charter. -
decide what would happen to Europe and Germany after countries freed from Nazi rule. -
Winston Churchill gave a speech declaring that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe, pointing to efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west -
to finalise a post-war settlement and put into action all the things agreed at Yalta. -
the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany. -
to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states. -
a 20th Century struggle between two nation-states, the Soviet Union and the United States -
fought between communist North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, supported by the United States. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front -
a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War -
The invasion triggered a brutal, nine-year-long Afghan civil war. -
marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain. -
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union