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Potsdam confrence
Roosevelt died leaving Harry S. Truman as president.Europe faced an uncertain future due to the political,ecinomic and social systems were in chaos. United states finished the work on the atomic bomb. It ended on augest 2,1945 with Truman and Atle openly anti-comunist. Many historians believed the potsdam conferance to be the begining of the cold war. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech.
Winston churchill delivered a speach on wich described United states a superpower and a close alli, or a "special relationship". With the iorn curtain stretching accross eastern europe Churchill mentioned the comunist fith colunms. that may have been opperating in western and southern europe. drawing ideas about hitler in WW1.Soviet leader took this speach as racist. people say this may have triggered the cold war as well. -
Truman doctrine established
Truman started an act that would assist Great britain with any military arsenol and that Britain would no longer supply any ecinomic support to greece.Truman stated that United States could no longer stand by the soviet union during the totaltarianisim, due to national security. -
marshal plan
the us government spent 13 billion in western aid to keep the EU prosperous enough to reject the soviet communist way of thought. This plan also loosened interstate barriers. -
Berlin blockade
Separated east and west germany to keep eastern germans from escaping. The communism in eastern germany wasn't spreading to the western democratic side. The US provided air supplies to help the western controlled side of the country. -
NATO forms
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an internal governmental military alliance based on the north atlantic treaty that waswas signed on 4 April 1949. -
West Germany forms
Germany was established from eleven states formed in the three Allied Zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France the "Western Zones". Its population grew from 51 million in 1950 to more than 63 million in the early 90s. -
Korean war
The Korean war was a war between north and nouth Korea, in which UN force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
geneva accords
On indochina, the conference produced a set of documents known as the geneva accords.the agreements temporarily separated vietnam into two zones. -
Warsaw pact formed
warsaw,Poland.The warsaw pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members in this treaty. -
republic of south vietnam
south vietnam was a state governing the southern half of Vietnam from 1955 to 1975.The origins went right back to the french colony of Cochinchina. -
sputnik launched
on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball. it weighed only 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the earth. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
U-2 incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down from Soviet airspace. -
Bay of pigs invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
construction of the berlin wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (tarting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off by land, West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. -
cuban missle crisis.
confrontation between the United States and the SU over soviet ballistic missiles deployed in cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the cold war came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war. -
First U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam
The U.S discomtempt with Vietnams decline into communsim they belived to be under the controll of the USSR but they were wronge. This lead to the Vietnam war. -
First man on the moon
On july the 16 of 1969 the first men to walk on the moon were lanched into space by the United States. This to the Soviets was a great disapointment. -
SALT Treaty
The Streategic arms limitation treaty was created in novermber of 1969 to limit arms manufacturing of weapons in USSR and US. -
Paris Peace Acoords-Vietnam War
This was used to establish peace between the US and vietnam bringing to end the Vietnam war. -
Soviet troops Invade Afghanistan
As a surprise ton the US the USSR invaded Afghanistan, this ended with direct military vs military involvement. -
Olympic boycott by U.S.A and her allies
As a way to protest and combat the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan the U.S.A and her allies boycotted the 1980 ollympic games. -
Olympic boycott by U.S.S.R and her allies
The mass anti-communism hysteria in the U.S caused the USSR and her allies to boycott the 1984 summer olympics. -
gorbachev announces glasnost and perestroika
Gorbachev announces his new promgrams to dramatically change things in the USSR. The programs are His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) -
tiananmen square protests
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident. Chinese protesters were forced to stop protesting ofter exposing deep slits in the government. The civillian death are estamated in the thousands. -
fall of berlin wall
November 9, 1989, when the head of the east german communist party announced that citizens of the could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. -
Malta summit
The Malta Summit comprised a meeting between united states p president George Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev. was their second meeting following a meeting that included then ronald reagan, in 1988. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev would declare an end to the Cold War. -
german reunification
the process in 1990 in which the german democratic republic joined the federal republic of germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. -
poland becomes a democracy
In 1990 the country reseved fully free elections, deep economic reforms and a total shift in foreign policy and also recieved stronger ties with Europe and US. -
warsaw pact dissolved
After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart. -
Start treaty signed
START I was the first treaty to provide for deep reductions of U.S. and Soviet/Russian strategic nuclear weapons. It played an indispensable role in ensuring the predictability and stability of the strategic balance. -
START talks
THe strategic arms reduction treaty was signed in 1991 and STARTII was signed in 1993 to help close out the cold war. -
Russia recognizes the end of the soviet union
Acknowledging the independence of the former Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States. although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct. -
sources
History,wiki,google,This day in history.
