cold war

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  • the defeat of Germany and japan resulting in the end of world war 2

    after the war
    the Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
    The Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins

  • Containment

    Russia tested its first nuclear bomb which leads to the US paying more attention to the soviets and caused the weapons race

  • Cuban missile crisis

    soviet union used Cuba to threaten the US with bombs that head straight to the US which caused high tension between both countries

  • removing missiles

    President Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles
    from Europe
    in return, the soviet union remove their missiles in Cuba
  • Period: to

    Decline of the Soviet empire

    Lithuania becomes independent
    Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia
    Germany reunited
    End of the Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends