Cold War

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    Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

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    Potsdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine was putting the cold wa in effect officially. It stated that the U.S. needed to provide military/economic assistance to protect other nations from communist influence.

  • Marshall Plan

    The American initiative to aid Europe, in which the U.S. gave over $17 billion (currently valued at $120 billion), of economic support to help rebuild European economies from WW2 in exchange for supporting democracy.
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    Berlin Blockade/ Airlift

    Soviet Union blocked the Allies (Western Germany) access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. Throughout this time, British, U.S., and French cargo planes flew overhead to deliver provisions for those stuck in West Berlin.

  • Comecon Created

  • NATO Established

    Also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization created by the U.S., Canada, and several western European countries to provide collective security against the communists/ Soviet Union.

  • China Becomes Communist

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    Korean War

    Soldiers from North Korea passed the 38th parallel (boarder of the Koreas) and entered South Korea. The U.S. stepped in for democratic South Korea and pushed North Korea back into their section of the land. They pushed them so far back, the almost got to China. The communist Chinese government then decided to assist North Korea. An armistice was then signed, stopping the fighting but not creating peace.

  • KGB Established

  • Vietnam is Divided

  • Warsaw Pact Established

    The communist equivalent of NATO. A collective defense treaty amoung the 8 communist powers of Central and Eastern Europe.
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    Vietnam War

    Costly armed conflict against communist North Vietnam and US allied South Vietnam. In 1975, communist forces seized control of Saigon, ending the war.

  • Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

    First artificial earth satallite made byt he Soviet Union.

  • Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba

  • U2 Spy Plane Shot Down

  • First Man In Sapce (Yuri Gagarin)

    Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut; he was the first ever human to journey into outer space.

  • Bay Of Pigs

    CIA financed and trained Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack failed.

  • First American In Space (Alan Shepard)

  • Berlin Wall Built

    A barrier that divided Berlin from 1961- 1989 that completely cut off West Berlin from East Berlin.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Leaders of the US/USSR engaged in a 13 day political/ military stand off when the US discovered that the USSR installed nuclear armed missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles away from the US.

  • Golf of Tonkin Incident/Resolution

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    Six Day War

  • Tet Offesnsive

  • Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon`

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission occured 8 years after president John Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon.

  • Yom Kippur War

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    Iranian Hostage Crisis

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    Perestroika

    "Openness" and "reconstructng" profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs, and international relations. This revolutionary program swept communist powers throughout Eastern Europe and brought and end to the Cold War.

  • Glasnost

    "Openness" and "reconstructng" profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs, and international relations. This revolutionary program swept communist powers throughout Eastern Europe and brought and end to the Cold War.
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    Iranian Contra Affair

  • Communist Governements in Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria Fall

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Poland Becomes Independent

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Head of East German Communist party announced that the citezens of GDR could cross the boarder whenever they pleased. Some felt freely ro cross the wall, while others brought picks and hammers and began to chip away at the wall itself.

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes office

  • Germany reunites

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Warsaw Pact ends

  • Borris Yeltsin elected president of Russia

  • USSR disolved