Cold War Affects and Events

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  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference
    Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war and they meant for serval days.

  • V E Day

    V E Day
    Germany surrenders to the Russian army

  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    This was a programme of economic aid offered by the United States to any European country.The plan was rejected outright by Stalin and any Eastern Bloc .Consequently the aid was only given to Western European Countries.

  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany.

  • JFK Assassination

    JFK Assassination
    JF Kennedy was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder

  • Afghanistan

    Afghanistan
    Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan

  • Poland

    Poland
    Tadeusz Mazowiecki elected leader of the Polish government - the first eastern bloc country to become a democracy

  • Fall Of The Berlin Wall

    Fall Of The Berlin Wall
    The Berlin wall was torn down

  • Romanian Revolution

    Romanian Revolution
    Riots broke out which culminated in the overthrow and execution of the leader Ceauşescu and his wife.

  • End of the Warsaw Pact

    End of the Warsaw Pact
    The Warsaw Pact which allied Communist countries was ended

  • Start

    Start
    The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA

  • End Of the Soviet Union

    End Of the Soviet Union
    Russia formally recognised the end of the Soviet Union