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Yalta Conference
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Communism Spreads
Stalin broke the earlier promises he made at Yalta (Feb 1945). He promised free elections in Eastern European countries. Instead Stalin bloked the elections and imposed communism. Churchill announced “An iron curtain has descended across Europe.” -
End of WWII
World War Two ends with Truman’s decision to drop an a-bomb on Japan. -
Setting the stage: During and After WWII
The U.S. and Soviet Union were allies during WWII. Both countries spied on each other during WWII. Both wanted to share as little as possible in the victory over the axis powers. Communism was spreadinf -
Space race
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John F. Kennedy
In 1961 begins the Soviet Union with constructing the Berlin Wall. Kennedy and the Premiere of the Soviet Union involve the world in the cuban missles crisis in 1962. Kennedy got shot and killed in 1963. -
End of the Cold War
The Soviet Union collapses in 1991. In the same year Russia elects Boris Yeltsin to lead new democracy.