-
The postdam conference was soviet leader joseph stalin, winstin churchill and president truman to negoitate the end of WWII
-
Churchill delivers his 'Sinews of Peace' speech which contain the famous frase " an iron curtain has descended on Europe
-
The truman doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop soviet imperialism during the cold war
-
-
This was one of the first crisis of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies railways and roads to berlin
-
This was a programme of economic aid offered by the united states to any European country.
-
nato is an intergovermental military allience based on the north atlantic treaty
-
The French, USA and UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany
-
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea
-
The Korea war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while south Korea affiliated with the USA
-
The set of documents ended the French War with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states
-
The Warsaw pact was formed with member States East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the soviet union
-
a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal
-
the soviet union launched sputnick into a low orbit
-
USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space
-
Talks between Nikita Khrushehev and Dwight Eisenhower concernign the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 soy plane was shot down over Russian airspace
-
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space
-
A force of Cuban exiles, trained by the CIA, aided by the US government attempted to invade Cuba and overthrow the Communist Government
-
Berlin wall built and boarders sealed between East and West Germany
-
a US spy plane reported sightinng the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in cuba
-
JF Kennedy was assinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the Murder
-
Nikita Krushchev from office. He was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
-
150,000 US troops sent to Vietnam
-
Warsaw pact foeces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as 'Prague Spring' instigated by Alexander Dubcek.
-
US launched apollo 8 - first manned orbit of the moon
-
US apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon
-
The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britian and france reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to berlin
-
strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between US and USSR
-
The paris peave accords ended AMerican involvement in Vietnam
-
the khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia. Any supporters of the former regime were executed in a genocide that became known as the 'Killing Fields'
-
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. The Capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese led to the whole country becoming Communist
-
North Vietnam invaded south Vietnam The Capture of Saigon by the north vietnamese led to the whole country becoming communist
-
A group of Iranian students and militants stormed the American embassy and took 53 Americans hostage to show thier support for the Iranian Revoloution
-
Soviet troops invaded Afghsnistan
-
A number of coutnries including the USA boycotted the summer Olympics held in Moscow in protest at the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
-
Martial Law was declared to crush the Solidarity movement
-
Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the sumer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaltion for the US boycott of 1980
-
Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union
-
An explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine remains the worst nuclear disaster in history
-
Gorbachev announced his intention to follow a policy of glasnot
-
The last soviet union troops left Afghanistan
-
Anti Communist protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China were crushed by the government. The death count unkown
-
Tadeusz Maziwiecki elected leader of the polish government
-
Hungary proclaimed itself a republic
-
The Berlin wall was torn down
-
Series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the communist government
-
Meeting between Mikhail gorbachov and George W bush
-
Riots broke out which culminated in the overthrow and execution of the leader Ceausescu and his Wife
-
East and West Germany were reunited as one country.
-
The warsaw pact which allied communist countries was ended
-
The strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
-
Mikhail Gorbachev resigned. The hammer and sickle flag the Kremlin was lowered
-
Russia formally reconised the end of the Soviet Union