Cold war

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    February 4-11: Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
    Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins May 8: VE Day - Victory in Europe. Germany surrenders to the Red Army in Berlin July: Potsdam Conference - Germany was officially partitioned into four zones of occupation. August 6: The United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima (20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000) August 8: Russia declares war on Japan August 9: The United States dr
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  • Stalin hostile speech

    communism & capitalism were incompatible

  • Iron Curtain Speech by Winston Churchill

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman declares active role in Greek Civil War

  • Marshall Plan

    setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition

  • Rio Pact

    U.S. meet 19 Latin American countries and created a security zone around the hemisphere

  • Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia

  • Truman's Loyalty Program

    created to catch Cold War spies

  • Brussels Pact

    organized to protect Europe from communism

  • Berlin Blockade

    lasting 11 months

  • NATO ratified

  • Berlin Blockade ends

  • Korean War begins

    Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons

  • warsaw pact

    Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe

  • Suez Crisis

    Israeli attack led by Moshe Dayan against Egyptian forces in the Sinai Egypt took control of Suez Canal

  • castro take over cuba

  • Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory

  • John F. Kennedy elected President of USA

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • berlin border is closed

  • Construction of Berlin Wall begins

  • cuban missile crisis

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defence Initiative

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union initiating a campaign of openness called "glasnost" and restructuring called "perestroika"

  • President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe

  • Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles

  • Poland becomes independent

  • Berlin Wall is demolished and East Germany allows unrestricted migration to West Germany

  • Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania

  • Lithuania becomes independent

  • Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia

  • Germany reunited

  • End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends