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Paris Conference
The Paris Peace Conference was the meeting of the Allied victors following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918. It took place in Paris in 1919 and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries and nationalities. They met to discuss different treatys. -
Russia dissolves Comintern
In 1915 is when the comintern was made at the Zimmerwald Conference. Jospeh Stalin dissolved it becasue it was a anti communist organization and russia was a communist country. -
Hungarian Revolution ‘56
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies. It lasted from October 23 to November 10 1956. It was a major threat to the USSR because the last one they had was the Nazis at the end of WWII. -
USA forms NASA and launches Explorer 1 satellite
NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA passed on July 29, 1958, It became operational on October 1, 1958. Its anually budget is 17.8 billion dollars a year. It was made 54 years ago. -
Soviet Union sends first ever man-made satellite, Sputnik, into space
The launch of Sputnik caused great amounts of conflicts between the United States and USSR. Both countries didnt want to be outshown or outdated. They both wanted to be in the lead with the technology in space. It was launched on October 4 1959 by the USSR. -
U-2 spy plane incident (In USSR)
During the Cold War on May 1, 1960 a United States spy plane was shot down. The united states tried to hide it at first because they didnt want to start a war. The United States found it as a great embarresment because the Paris conference was 2 weeks away when this happened. -
Soviet Yuri Gagarin first man in space
Yuri Gagarin became a Soviet Union Hero. He was the first man in outer space. For that he recived lots of medals and awards. He started off as a backup person for a flight crew,but that ended up failing when they got in a bad crash. -
Kennedy sets up Apollo program
On May 25, 1961 President Kennedy announced to the nation he wanted to be the first country to send an American to land safetly on the moon. This mission was complete when Niel Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module on the Moon on July 20, 1969 -
Building of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier built by German Democratic Republic. The was completely cut off West Berlin from the surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls,and a wide area later know as the death strip. it was built during post WWII. -
Khrushchev & Kennedy indulge in brinkmanship
Kennedy wanted Kruschev to take out the nuclear weapongs he put in Cuba. But Krushchev wanted to have Kennedy take out the nuclear weapons the US had in Turkey. So the brinkmanship (which means to take from, restrict) was they wanted the nuclear weapons out of the countries that were close to them. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis occured in October 1962. Russia put nuclear weapons in Cuba, which is ony 90 miles away from The United States. At first they tried to make sure that they were really nuclear weapons, when a U2 spyplane got shot down in the procces. United States took this as a threat. -
Hotline established (between USSR & USA)
THis hotline was established so that it would be faster for the USSR and the USA to talk, it would be easier if there was an emergency then to write a letter or fly there to talk now they can just pick up the phone and if will call one another directlly. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
On August 5, 1963 The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britian signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The nuclear test ban treaty was a treaty that prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. The treaty was important for control of nuclear weapons. -
Brezhnev Doctrine
The Brezhnev Doctrine is a foreign Soviet Union policy. It was made for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring. -
Czechoslovakia Uprising ‘68
The Communist party in Czecholslovakia in 1968 replaced Novotny as Party Leader with Alexander Dubcek. They didn't want anything to do with socialism. Dubcek wanted to get along with all countries no matter what political views they had.
