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Yalta Conference
A meeting between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill to decide what would happen at the end of World War 2. -
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the Creation of the Iron Curtain
the Iron Curtain is an imaginary boundary that seperated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries. -
the Second Red Scare
Not a specific date but took place starting in 1947 and ended sometime in the 50's. Also known as McCarthyism, was the scare and accusations that certain people were communists. -
the Marshall Plan
Also known a the European Recovery Program, was the Americans program to aid Europe to help rebuild destruction to the economy that occured during WWII. This helped prevent the spread of communism because the countries were not forced to seek help from the Soviets. -
the Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the alied sector of Berlin to starve the population until they surrenderd against the alliance. The allies helped Berlin by flying in a massiv amounts of supplies. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, the US and 11 other western nations of Europe formed the North Atlantci Treaty Organization. -
the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact in 1955. -
the Vietnam War
South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam was an allie of the USSR. The USA feared that if North Vietnam took over, other countries would fall to communism so thats why they recieved our support. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik into space. This created a war to space between the Soviets and the Americans. -
Bay of Pigs Invansion
the CIA planned an attack on Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro. The mission failed. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
the Berlin Wall was created in the night by the communists in East Germany to keep people from fleeing to West Germany which was against communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the world ever came to a nuclear war. Soviet Union and America had missles that were ready to be launched however the leaders of both countries resolved the issue and averted the war. -
the First Moon Landing
The US accomplished the first moon landing beat the USSR in the space race. -
the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall began its destruction by both citizens of Eastern and Western Germany. They vandalized the wall and began to chip away at it until it was finally fully knocked down in 1992. -
the Fall of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declared the 15 republics of the USSR independent.
