cold war

  • Yalta confrence

    Yalta confrence

    discussion of Europeans postwar recolonization
  • Nikita Khrushchev comes to power

    Nikita Khrushchev comes to power

    first secretary of the communist party
  • us dropped bomb

    us dropped bomb

    they dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and the Japaneses quit fighting
  • end of ww2

    end of ww2

  • potsdam confrence

    potsdam confrence

    2/3 of big 3 being replaced stalin replaced the 2 people
  • Truman doctrine

    Truman doctrine

    Truman provided an political and military assistance
  • marshal plan

    marshal plan

    american initiative to aid western europe
  • berlin airlift

    berlin airlift

    forces decided and ocuppied germany
  • berlin blockade

    berlin blockade

    limit ability of ailed forces to get to sector of Britain
  • arms race

    arms race

    us vr ussr on how much power they had
  • space race

    space race

    supreme spaceflight capability against us and ussr
  • Korean war

    Korean war

    war between north and south korea
  • Joseph Stalin dies

    Joseph Stalin dies

    USSR leader, political from mid 20's tell death
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war

    resistance war against us
  • sputmik

    sputmik

    first artificial satellite
  • u-2 incident

    u-2 incident

  • bay of pigs invasion

    bay of pigs invasion

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis

  • berlin wall

    berlin wall

  • president Kennedy was assasinated

    president Kennedy was assasinated

    assassinated in Dallas
  • the percentages deal

    the percentages deal

    GB and ussr leaders decide Europe
  • apolo 11 landed on the moon

    apolo 11 landed on the moon

    Neil Armstrong as the commander and this was a big part of keeping up with the space race
  • iron curtain

    iron curtain

    Churchill talks about separation of eastern and western countries
  • soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    soviets took over Afghanistan
  • INF treaty

  • German re-unification

  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

  • USSR falls in cold war

    USSR falls in cold war

  • ussr breakup

    ussr breakup

    the breakup into states people stepped down from legal positions
  • us spy plane shot down in ussr

    us spy plane shot down in ussr

    shot down in ussr airspace president Eisenhower didn't want it to happen