Cold War

  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    An Arms race between several European countries
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    a meeting of the heads of government of Us and UK and USSR
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    Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    US President spoke that the US would support Greece and Turkey
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    was an american initiative to aid Europe
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Russian were blocked off from everyone
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    One of the first major international crises
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    war between North Korea and South Korea
  • Joseph stalin dies

    Joseph stalin dies

    died in the USSR
  • Nikita Khrushchev comes to power

    Nikita Khrushchev comes to power

    He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    Competition to get to space between the USSR and the US
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    was also known as the Second Indochina War
  • U-2 incident

    U-2 incident

    US spy plan was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    was a failed military invasion of Cuba
  • Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    was a 13 day confrontation between Soviet Union and Cuba
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    lasted 9 years
  • USSR Breakup

    USSR Breakup

    Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  • INF Treaty

    INF Treaty

  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    The Seventh and last leader of the Soveit Union