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This event is when Winston S. Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin met and discussed the order in Europe after the war in Yalta which is located in the Soviet Union.
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The day when German troops in Europe surrendered.
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The conference which was the last meeting of the Big Three meetings that went on during WWII where the declaration that demanded unconditional surrender by Japan, also hiding the fact that they had agreed to let Japan keep its emperor in private.
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The day when the formal surrender of Japan was signed.
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The speech Winston Churchill gave when he condemned the policies of the Soviet Union in Europe and one of the things that announced the beginning of the war.
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The official declaration of the Cold War.
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A US program with Westen Europe where it provides them with aid after the devastation of WWII
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When the Soviet Union attempted to limit France's, Great Britain's, and the United States' ability to reach their sectors of Berlin.
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance which coordinates the economic development of countries belonging to the Soviet Union that are eastern European.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was the military alliance between 12 Western nations that provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression. This also increased American influence in Europe.
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When the Soviets concluded that the blockade failed and reopened the borders.
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China goes under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
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The first military action of the Cold War which was found to be a war against forces of international communism itself.
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The first military action of the Cold War which was found to be a war against forces of international communism itself.
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The KGB was for the Soviet Union and was their primary security agency.
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A Cold War policy suggesting a communist government in one nation would lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states in a short amount of time and each would fall like a perfectly aligned row of dominos.
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A long and costly conflict that both divided and pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States.
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When the country is divided between North and South by the Geneva Agreement.
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A treaty signed by the Soviet Union and seven of its European Satellites which was a mutual defense organization which put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the states involved.
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When Israeli armed forces pushed toward the Suez Canal in Egypt after it was nationalized by the Egyptian president in July of that year.
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The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union which inaugurates the "Space Age".
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When Castro and his guerrillas launched a counterattack against Cuba and gained control from Batista.
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When the pilot of an American U2 spy plane was shot down when it flew through Soviet airspace.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly into space with his flight last 108 minutes. He circled the Earth in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft for a little bit more than one orbit.
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When the plan between Kennedy and Eisenhower's CIA to Invade Cuba went into action.
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When the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off into space aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket.
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When East German authorities build a wall to permanently close off access to West Germany.
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When the US intelligence personnel which were analyzing U2 spy plane data and found out that the Soviets were building medium-range missile sites in Cuba.
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When President Lyndon Johnson authorizes "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" by the North Vietnamese communist government. This was passed because of an alleged attack on two US naval destroyers which were stationed off the coast of Vietnam.
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A brief, but bloody war between Israel, the Arab states of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
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A coordinated series of attacks by the North Vietnamese on more than 100 South Vietnamese cities and outposts.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans in history to land on the moon.
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A long and costly conflict that both divided and pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States.
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When Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack on Israel on Yom Kippur because they were hoping to win back lost territory from the third Arab-Israeli war.
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When people from all sectors in Nicaraguan joined forces and defeated the Somoza dynasty and the National Guard.
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When a group of Iranian students took more than 60 American hostages after storming the US Embassy in Tehran.
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When the US, National Security Council became involved in secret weapon transactions and other things that were forbidden by the US Congress or that violated the stated public policy of the government.
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When Mikhail Gorbachev called for a new era of transparency and openness in a speech to the Communist Party Congress.
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When Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the need for political and economic restructuring in his speech to the Communist Party Congress.
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When Poland is able to have semi-free elections.
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When Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square and fired on civilians.
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When Hungary finally became a democracy, was the first country to take down the Iron Curtain and established the Republic of Hungary.
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When the head of the East German Communist Party stated that citizens of the GDR are allowed to cross the border whenever they wanted.
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When the Romanian dictator and his wife were executed which marked the end of communism in Romania.
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After a general strike involving all of the citizens of Czechoslovakia, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia relinquished power.
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When Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the new president of the Soviet Union by the Congress of People's Deputies.
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When the East and West of Germany reunite.
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When the 7th Grand National Assembly voted to change the name of the country to the Republic of Bulgaria and removed the Communist state emblem from their national flag.
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When the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites was dissolved.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of Russia.
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The last time the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow.
