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Yalta Conference
It was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman gathered to decide how to administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier on 8 May. The goals of the conference also included the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Hiroshima bombing
During the final stage of WW2, the US detonated a nuclear bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6 and 9, 1945, with the consent of the United Kingdom, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Again during the final stage of WW2, the United States detonated a nuclear weapon over the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 6 - 9, 1945, with consent from the UK. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of them were civilians. -
Molotov Plan
It 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. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats in Greece and Turkey. -
Brussels Treaty
It provided for the organisation of military, economic, social and cultural cooperation among the Western European Union, as well as a mutual defence clause. -
Marshall Plan
It was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the US gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of WW2. -
Berlin Blockade
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
It is a system of collective defence by which its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. -
Soviet Creation of Nuclear Weapons
It was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after WW2. -
Korean War
It was a war between North Korea with the support of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea with the support of the United Nations, with the leading support from the United States. -
Fidel Castro taking over
Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. From his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organization, "The Movement". -
Stalin's Death
He was the second leader of the Soviet Union and died on 5 March 1953 at the Kuntsevo Dacha aged 74 after suffering a stroke. After four days of national grief, Stalin was given a state funeral and then buried in Lenin's Mausoleum on 9 March. -
Warsaw pact
It was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
It was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China,and other communist allies. South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. -
Hungarian Revolution
It was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
NORAD
It is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America. -
Bay of Pigs
It was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military group, trained and funded by the Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
It was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
It was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Nuclear Arms Treaties
It is an 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. -
Afghanistan/Soviet War
It was a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the US, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war. -
Solidarity in Poland
It is a Polish labour union that was founded on 17 September 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. -
Berlin Wall falling
It began the evening of 9 November 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks, with people nicknamed Mauerspechte using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings. -
Czechoslovakia Revolution
It was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 29 December 1989. The result was the end of 41 years of one-party rule in Czechoslovakia, and the subsequent dismantling of the planned economy and conversion to a parliamentary republic. -
End of the Cold War
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With remarkable speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.