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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference, 1945. The Big Three—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 negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
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Cold War Events
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Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
It was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 -
Truman Doctrine Established
It was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
It was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
It is aninternational crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
NATO Formed
It is military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. -
West Germany Formed
It is a republic consisting of the western two-thirds of what is now Germany. West Germany was created in 1949 when the United States, Great Britain, and France consolidated those zones, or portions, of Germany that they had occupied at the end of World War II. -
Korean War
It is a conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. -
Geneva Accords
The collection of documents relating to Indochina and issuing from the Geneva Conferenceattended by representatives of Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China, France, Laos, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Viet Minh , and the State of Vietnam. The 10 documents—none of which were treaties binding the participants—consisted of 3 military agreements, 6 unilateral declarations, and a Final Declaration of Geneva Conference. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
It is a treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization (Warsaw Treaty Organization) composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
U-2 Incident
It is a single-seat, high-altitude jet aircraft flown by the United States for intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
It was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Republic of South Vietnam formed- US pledges aid
This period resulted in the military defeat of the French, a 1954 Geneva meeting that partitioned Vietnam into North and South, and the French withdrawal from Vietnam, leaving the Republic of Vietnam regime fighting a communist insurgency with USA aid. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
It was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It is a major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
First US combat troops arrive in Vietnam
3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam. -
First man on the moon
Apollo 11's mission was to land two men on the moon. They also had to come back to Earth safely. Apollo 11 blasted off. Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. -
SALT Treaty
The negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. -
Paris Peace Accords- Vietnam War
It intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War -
Soviet Troops Invade Afghanistan
Insurgent groups who received aid from several Western countries and several Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. -
Olympic Boycott By USA and her allies
It was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan -
Olympic Boycott by USSR and her allies
Citing security concerns and stating that “chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria [were] being whipped up in the United States. -
Gorbachev announces glasnost and perestroika
Mikhail S. Gorbachev launched his nation on a dramatic new course. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. -
Tiananmen Square Protest
In Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political. -
Poland becomes a democracy
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Despite persecution and imposition of martial law in 1981, it eroded the dominance of the Polish United Workers' Party and by 1989 had triumphed in Poland's first partially free and democratic parliamentary elections since the end of the Second World War. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates Along the Wall to be opened as a result of days of mass protest. After decades of partition, East Berliners surged through cheering and shouting and were greeted by West Berliners on the other side. Ecstatic crowds immediately began to climb on top of the Wall and destroy segments of the concrete fort. -
Malta Summit
Comprised a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and U.S.S.R. leader Mikhail Gorbachev, taking place between December 2-3, 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall. -
German Reunification
It was 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, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. -
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 talks
It is arms control negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) that were aimed at reducing those two countries’ arsenals of nuclear warheads and of the missiles and bombers capable of delivering such weapons. -
Start Treaty Signed
The treaty barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 inter-continental ballistic missiles and bombers. -
Russia recognizes the end of the Soviet Union
As a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,[1] acknowledging the independence of the former Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all.
