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Joseph Stalin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met to discuss allied war against Japan Germany.
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Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe, while Stalin wanted a buffer of Communist states in Eastern Europe.
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He agreed to provide military, political, and economic assistance from Democratic nations that were under threat.
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George Marshall came up with this plan to aid countries in rebuilding war devastated regions. This plan helped 18 European countries rebuild their nation after World War 2.
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This event was the first international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the areas of Berlin under Western control. The Western Allies answered back with the Berlin Airlift.
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The Berlin Airlift was the Western Allies response to the Berlin Blockade. The Allies flew in supplies to the people of West Berlin, and flew over 200,000 flights in one year. The USSR lifted the blockade in May 1949.
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COMECON was a Soviet plan to aid in rebuilding Soviet block nations.
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NATO was created in April 1949, and it provided an alliance between the USA, Britain, France, Canada, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Norway, so that if any country is attacked there would be mutual help.
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The USSR and USA were competing against each other as to who could have the best nuclear weapons. This was one of the main causes for the Cold War.
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The Korean War was fought between Northern Korea and Southern Korea due to the Cold War between USSR and USA. Korea split into 2 regions with separate governments. Both governments thought they had the right to rule the whole country and ignored the border that was created. In 1953, they signed an armistice and the Korean Demilitarized Zone was created between the countries. No peace treaty was signed, so the nations are still technically at war.
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At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe. Although, when Germany surrendered, he continued to occupy and dominate much of Eastern Europe. However, he did save the USSR from Nazi domination during his reign.
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Khrushchev was one of 5 chosen to be welcomed in to the new office of secretarial.
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Eisenhower was president from 1953-1961. He managed tensions with the Soviet Union under the threat of nuclear weapons and he ended the war in Korea in 1953.
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This pact was a military alliance of Communist Block nations such as the USSR, East Germany, Albania, Czech, Poland, Hungary, and Romania, and provided collective security.
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The Space Race was a competition between the USA and the USSR to develop technology to send to the moon. The USA achieved this goal in July 1969.
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The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by China and other communist states, and South Vietnam was supported by the USA and anti-communist states. Once Saigon was seized by communist forces, the war ended. A year later the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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The citizens of Hungary had anti-Soviet revolts. Khrushchev stopped the rebellion, sending tanks into Budapest.
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Fulgencio Bastista was the Cuban Dictator when Fidel Castro overthrew the government. Castro set up a communist government.
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The USSR shot down an American spy plane and captured pilot Francis Gary Powers.
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Kennedy was president from 1960-1963 and confronted mounting tensions in Cuba, Vietnam, and elsewhere.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Cosmonaut and the first man to travel in space. He traveled on the Vostok 1 and orbited for 1 hour and 48 minutes.
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Cuban mercenaries were trained and sent to the Bay of Pigs and was an unsuccessful mission.
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This crisis was a 13 day conformation between the USA and the Soviet Union.
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Nixon was president from 1969-1974. During his presidency he forged diplomatic ties with China and the Soviet Union, and withdrew troops from the Vietnam War.
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This was the start of a 9 year war between Soviet-Afghan.
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Gorbacher was the new leader of the Soviet Union and succeeded Chernenko.
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The INF Treaty is an agreement between the USA and USSR to eliminate nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges between 310 miles to 3,420 miles. This treaty was signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and it helped to begin the end of the Cold War.
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The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the German Democratic Republic and cut off West Berlin from East Berlin by land. When the wall finally came down, it paved the way for the German reunification.
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When a hole in the Iron Curtain was made, many East Germans fled to West Germany. This led to a free election and for Germany to become a united nation once again.
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The USSR becomes Russia and had a peaceful transition in becoming separate nations.
