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The Yalta Conference was a crucial turning point in the Cold War. These three leaders, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill , Soviet Premier, and Franklin D. Roosevelt agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world.
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Japan had surrendered to the allies, effectively ending World War 2. Soviet Union set up communist government in Eastern Europe.
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Winston Churchill said "an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent." The Iron Curtain was a symbolic separation between communist East Berlin and West Berlin.
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Communist North Korea attacks South Korea.
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North Korea and South Korea agrees to an armistice, brining the Korean War to and end.
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KGB was created to spy on suspected groups of people. It originally was limited to only spy on foreign countries, but it also spied on the country's own citizens.
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Cuba becomes a communist state.
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1,200 exiles were armed with American weapons, using American landing crafts, waded ashore at the Bay of Pigs.
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The spokesman for East Berlin's community party announced a change in his city's relations with the West Berlin. He said, "Citizen's of the GDR were free to cross the country's boarders." East and West Berlin knocked the wall down together.
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The end of the Soviet Union. The fall of the Berlin's wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War.
