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The Cold war was a time of mistrust and hostility between the USSR and the USA
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At the end of ww2, the two superpowers stopped cooperating due to differences in opinion and so therefore starting the cold war. -
After WW2 all the eastern and western states wanted to make sure that Germany could never build up its military like Hitler had done so they divided up berlin into four quadrants.USA, USSR, Great Britain, and France.
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The Berlin airlift was the response of the USA to the USSR blockading the roads to West Germany and this caused a high tensity situation.
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Nato was formed so that the West and Western Europe could defend themselves and prevent the spread of communism. -
The Korean War was a series of conflicts in South and North Korea to help the South Koreans push out the communists which ended in a stalemate
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The soviet union wanted an alliance so that they could defend against Nato and the West so they made a pact with a few countries thus making the Warsaw pact.
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The USA reacted to the first H-bomb detonation in disbelief so at that moment kickstarted the nuclear arms race. -
Kruschev wanted to make a deal with the US to cease hostilities and make relations better. -
The hungarian revolt tried to ovewrthrow the communist government in hungary but the USSR came with infantry and tanks and brutally suppressed the revolt.
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The USSR and the USA setup a hotline so that they could both notify the other if about to do anything to minimilize the risk of nuclear war. -
This escalated the space race into higher tensions.
A famous quote is "We can either learn mathematics and science or Russian". -
The bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt at overthrowing Castro's communist regime and setting up a capitalist rule that was friendly towards the US
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The wall was put up to prevent the spread of capitalism into East Germany from West Germany. -
The Cuban missile crisis was when a spy plane found nuclear missiles in Cuba set up by the soviet union. The missile discovery almost escalated the cold war into World War 3
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This test ban treaty was the decline of the threat of nuclear war in the Cold War. -
This uprising marked the beginning of the collapse of the soviet union due to the oppressive regime Stalin had established
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War superpowers dealt with arms control in two rounds of talks and agreements.
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The Helsinki Final Act was an agreement signed by 35 nations that concluded the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Helsinki, Finland. The multifaceted Act addressed many big global issues and greatly affected the Cold War and U.S.-Soviet relations.
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The invasion of Afghanistan was an effort to build up the communist regime and suppress a revolt against the government.
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Solidarity, full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it was the first independent trade union in a soviet country to be recognized by the USSR. -
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. -
The opening of a border gate between Austria and Hungary at the Pan-European Picnic on 19 August 1989 then set in motion a chain reaction, at the end of which there was no longer a GDR and the Eastern Bloc had disintegrated.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the symbolic Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded. -
German reunification was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.