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Yalta Conference
The Big Three met to discuss German terms of surrender and post war occupation of Germany. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Truman Doctrine
The U.S. would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism. -
Marshall Plan
It was a U.S, economic recovery for war-torn Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviets block entrances to Berlin and cut off Allied supplies to West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. and British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin. -
German Unification
Great Britain, France, and the United States made plans to unify the three Western sections of Germany and Berlin and a West German government. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States and its European allies to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Union explodes 1st atomic bomb
At a test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning." -
Federal Republic of Germany created
This was a new democratic state in West Germany. -
German Democratic Republic created
This was a Communist controlled state in East Germany. -
Korean War
The war was an attempt by the Communist govenment of North Korea to take over South Korea. -
Hydrogen Bomb
This was created during the Arms Race and was even more destructive than the first atomic weapons. -
Arms Race
The United States and the Soviet Union built up their armies and weapons. -
Joseph Stalin dies
At age 73, Stalin died of illness. -
Nikita Krushchev comes to power
He was selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a war to stop the spread of communism. -
Space Race
This was a competition between the U.S, and the Soviet Union for supremacy in spaceflight capacity. -
Warsaw Pact
This was a military alliance of Communist Block nations USSR, East Germany, Albania, Czech, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. -
Sputnik
This was the first satelite to orbit earth. It sent radio signals back to earth. -
U-2 incident
This american spy plane was shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. -
Yuri Gagari
He was a Russian Cosmonaut and the 1st man to travel in space. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
114 fighters died in three days and the rest were captured by Castro's troops. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was a failed military invasion of Cuba. -
Start of Berlin Wall
Khrushchev realized the need to stop the flow of refugees from East Germany through West Berlin. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War. -
INF Treaty
The INF Treaty was signed between the U.S. and The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics to eliminate ballistic and druise missiles. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
The election was a victory for Gorbachev, but it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base. -
German Reunification
One year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany came together again after 45 years. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
