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Cold War
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potsdam conference
the prime minister winston churchill resigned as minister -
the beginning of the cold war
germany was divided into four occupation zones with great britian. Stalin responded by building a blockade. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Berlin airlift was a transfer of essential supplies. Stalin restricted access to Berlin by blocking waterways. they built a blockade to block the Capitalist people from bringing in supplies. They airlifted 2,343,315 tons of food and coal for the U.S -
Berlin Wall
A physical barrier that separeted the West and East Berlin. The United States stayed in West Berlin and became an independent political unit,a free city. -
Vietnam War
The Indochine war, French tried to get their colonial rule in Southeast Asia following World War II. This is what started the Vietnam War. War between Vietnam and US parts of south east Asia. -
Glasnot/Perestrokia
Perestrokia is the reconstruction of the political and econonmic system made by the Communist Party. Glasnot means openess, they has socail and political reforms. End of the Cold War. -
Fall of Communism/Soviet Union
11 republics became independent. Russian civil war. Stalin was forced to acknowledge the problems. Other leaders failed to follow Stalin. The Russian red army defeated the counterrerevoulutionary. -
Cuban missile Crisis
Climax
Standoff between the U.S. President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union over Nikita over the Soviet plan to install nuclear missiles on Cuba, U.S. Made Spain surrender Cuba in the 20th century.