cold war

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  • Potsdam confernece

    The Big Three allies ,Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to discuss terms for the end of World War II. The allies were in a disagreement on how to put europe back together. The US wanted to put europe back the way it was, while the soviets wanted to have a buffer zones and spread the concept of comunism.

  • Beggining of the Cold War

    Germany divided into 4 occupation zones.

  • Berlin Blockade/ airlift

    The soviets wanted to limit France, US, and Great Britains ability to travel to berlin for supplies. so the United States used airplanes to give berlin the supplies they needed.

  • Vietnam war

    The US and vietnamese go to war in south east asia. The US fought in efforts to stop the communism in vietnam. Both sides lost alot of soldiers in this war.

  • Berlin wall

    The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting 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. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls,

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    • Lasted 13 days
    • Embargo that US has imposed on cuba since 1962

  • Glasnot/Perestroika

    This was put in place to have citizen be more involved with politics and allow small businesses grow, the Soviet Union was engulfed by a multitude of problems. The economy, especially the agricultural sector, began to fall apart. The country lacked technological advancements and used inefficient factories, all while consumers were buying low-quality products and suffered from a shortage of social freedoms.

  • The fall of the Soviet Union

    On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.