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Postdam Conference
From July 17 to August 2, 1945, Allied leaders gathered to demand the surrender of Japan and set up a framework for postwar Europe. leader was trying to get the strongest position and the most influence for his own country, but the countries fell into two camps. The Potsdam Conference set up a competition between capitalist Western powers (the United States and Great Britain) and the communist-controlled Soviet Union. This rivalry grew into the Cold War. -
NATO/Warsaw Pact
From April 4, 1949 Nato changed its membership and its goals following the breakup of the soviet union in 1991. Nato headquarters are in brussels, belgium. Many advocated greater military spending and planning to counter soviet strength. In November 1990 Warsaw Pact and NATO leaders declared that they were “no longer adversaries,” ending the Cold War. The pact’s military structure was disbanded on March 31, 1991, and the political arm, meeting in Prague, agreed to disband three months later. -
Korean War
June 1950 to Japan controlled Korea until the end of world war 2 1939-45. And the north Korean attacked southward across 38th parallel, Because the north koreans wanted to control south koreans and they start fighting for it. From then on, neither side gained or lost much ground. Peace talks began in July 1951. Finally on July 27, 1953, representatives of both sides signed an agreement. -
Vietnam War
1954, North Vietnam wanted to reunite the country under communism its political and economic system, They fought to keep this from happening. More than 1.3 million vietnamese soldiers and about 58,000 U.S troops were killed. "The United States continued to help South Vietnam" -
Suez Crisis
July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests. The Suez Crisis was provoked by an American and British decision not to finance Egypt’s construction of the Aswan High Dam, as they had promised, in response to Egypt’s growing ties with communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik/Space Race
October 4, 1957 soviet union put the first satellite union in space. The ( Soviet Union) launched the earth's first satellite, Sputnik-1. The launch of sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise cold war tensions, Both countries were engaged in developing satellites as part of a goal set by the international council of scientific unions -
Cuban Missile Crisis
On October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917, 63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, -
Glasnost/Perestroika
On 5 December 1965, launched glasnost following his introduction of perestroika, a program aimed at restructuring Soviet economic and political policy. It gave the media greater freedom to publish, and editorials complaining of depressed conditions and of the Soviet government’s Inability to correct them began to appear. Ultimately, fundamental changes to the political structure of the Soviet Union occurred: the power of the Communist Party was reduced.