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Yalta Conference
While a number of important agreements were reached at the conference, tensions over European issues—particularly the fate of Poland—foreshadowed the crumbling of the Grand Alliance that had developed between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union during World War II and hinted at the Cold War to come. -
V E Day
Victory in Europe as Germany surrenders to the Russian army -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference formally divided Germany and Austria into four zones. It was also agreed that the German capital Berlin would be divided into four zones. The Russian Polish border was determined and Korea was to be divided into Soviet and American zones. -
V J Day
The Japanese surrendered bringing World War Two to an end -
Truman Doctrine
Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War, and the start of the containment policy to stop Soviet expansion.[3] Truman pledged the US to contain in Europe and elsewhere and impelled the US to support any nation with both military and economic aid if its stability was threatened by communism or the Soviet Union. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Blockade
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. It increased the tension between the USSR and the west. -
NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States -
Berlin Airlift
The airlift was one of the greatest logistical feats in modern history and was one of the crucial events of the early Cold War. The Berlin Airlift was a tremendous Cold War victory for the United States. Without firing a shot, the Americans foiled the Soviet plan to hold West Berlin hostage, while simultaneously demonstrating to the world the "Yankee ingenuity" for which their nation was famous -
Arms Race (USSR first successfully tested first atomic bomb)
Extreme tensions between the U.S and the Soviet union, the arms race eventually led to the world having enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world. -
Korean war
The Korean War was the first armed confrontation of the Cold War and set the standard for many later conflicts. -
Joseph stalin dies
Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions -
Death of Stalin
Joseph Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. He had the idea of placing nuclear missiles in Cuba to restore the balance of power during the Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
Hungarian Revolution
This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Soviet tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest. The Prime Minister Imre Nagy made a World broadcast that Hungary was under attack from the Soviet Union and calling for aid. Hungary -
Space race
During the cold war the US and the soviet union engaged in a competition to see what the best technology is. -
U-2 incident
This incident set in motion a pattern of mistrust that culminated in the Cuban Missile Crisis, a time when U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations reached an all time low. No one can predict if the Cold War might have ended sooner had the U-2 incident not occurred. -
Bay of pigs invasion
It primarily set the stage for the Cuban Missile Crisis, arguably the most dangerous U.S.-Soviet confrontation in history -
Berlin wall
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict[1] and is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction (MAD) being discussed as a determining factor in a major international arms agreement. -
Vietnam
The Paris Peace Accords ended American involvement in Vietnam -
Vietnam war (Fall of Saigon)
When the United States withdrew form Vietnam in 1973 the Soviet Union took the position that they had won the Cold War. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
The Russian invasion of Afghanistan probably contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union. They lost, the Aghanis won: this showed a weakness in the SU, and a few years later, or about the same time, the Soviet Union collapsed. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Gorbachev’s foreign policy, which he called “new thinking,” also contributed to the Cold War’s end -
U.S.S.R breakup
It ended the cold war, beacuse the collapse of the USSR, there were no other superpowers except the USA, and no other country could even come close to challenging the USA in terms of military, political, or economic influence. As such, there was no more Cold War- there was nobody for the USA to compete with. -
INF treaty
The INF Treaty eliminated all nuclear-armed ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (about 300 to 3400 miles) and their infrastructure. -
Malta Summit
This meeting between Mikhail Gorbachov and George H W Bush reversed much of the provisions of the Yalta Conference 1945. It is seen by some as the beginning of the end of the cold war. -
German Reunification
Germany was dvided into west and east after WWII, into democratic country and communist country. -
START
The Strategic Arms Reduction treaty was signed between Russia and the USA
