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The Cold War Begins
Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - the 'Big Three'
Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition. -
NATO ratified
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Soviet tests their first bomb
Russia tested its first atomic bomb. -
KGB established
The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991. -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. -
John F. Kennedy elected President of USA
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Decline of the Soviet empire
The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. -
Boris Yeltsin elected as President of Russia
Born on February 1, 1931, in Bukta, Russia. Boris Yeltsin was the first freely elected president of Russia. -
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Block.
