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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a World War II meeting of the chiefs of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss Germany's and Europe's postwar restructuring. The Yalta Conference, which took place on February 4, 1945, was held in a Russian resort town in Crimea. The purpose of the meeting was to establish a postwar peace that included not only a collective security system but also a strategy for granting self-determination to Europe's liberated peoples. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945 to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was a US-backed programme aimed at rehabilitating the economy of 17 western and southern European countries so that democratic institutions might continue after WWII. The Marshall Plan was implemented in West Germany on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan sparked a rebirth of European industrialization and ushered in a flood of capital into the region. It also benefited the economy of the United States by developing markets for American goods. -
NATO
NATO the North Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance made up of 30 member states, 28 of which are in Europe and two in North America. The United States, NAYO is made to keep peace. NATO's major goal since its inception has been to unite and strengthen the military responses of the Western Allies in the event of a Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies attacking western Europe -
Soviet creation of Nuclear Weapons
The Soviets started experimenting with nuclear technology in 1943, and first tested a nuclear weapon in August 1949. Many of the fission based devices left behind radioactive isotopes which have contaminated air, water and soil in the areas immediately surrounding, downwind and downstream of the blast site. -
Stalin's Death
Near the end of his life, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin had taken to spending almost all of his free time at his dacha in the Moscow suburb of Kuntsevo. Easily depressed when left on his own, he regularly summoned four members of his inner circle to join him there for a movie and a meal. -
Fidel Castro taking over
after Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic embargo, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. Warsaw was the first European capital conquered by Nazi Germany. -
Korean War
The Korean War, was conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (or Hungarian Uprising of 1956) was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Communist government of Hungary and its Soviet imposed policies, lasting from October 23 until November 10, 1956. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
NORAD
NORAD is a binational treaty-level defence agreement between Canada and the United States that was founded in 1958 to handle aerospace warning and control in North American defence. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was established on May 12, 1958 NORAD has relocated to Cheyenne Mountain near Colorado Springs' southwest corner. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is the cornerstone of Canada's defence alliance with the United States. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an abortive invasion of Cuba in April 1961 by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
creation of the Berlin wall
he Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a one-month, four-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Afghanistan Soviet War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist–Leninist–Maoist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) and the Soviet Army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan. -
Berlin Wall Falling
he fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, preceded by the Solidarity Movement in Poland. -
End of the the Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
The NPT is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.