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Yalta Conference
Feb 11, 1945 Cited as the start of the Cold War -
Truman Doctrine
USA would provide military aid. -
Marshall Plan
US economic recovery for war torn Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
May 11, 1949 soviets blocked enterance to Berlin. -
Berlin Aircraft
U.S and British airplanes fly supplies -
Arms Race
U.S.S.R exploded 1st atomic bomb. -
Korean War
July 27,1953 UN forces sent in to stop communist aggresion. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Stalin joined the Marxist Social Democratic movement, the Bolsheviks, and became a student of its leader, Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Stalin was arrested seven times between 1902 and 1913, and subjected to prison and exile. -
Nikita Krushchev comes to power
Soviets leader after Stalin DIes. -
Vietnam War
April 30,1975. Divided into North and South Vietnam, North was communist and South was democratic. -
Space Race
1975 Sputnik, and the 1st satellite. -
U-2 Incident
U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 19,1961 Cuban exiles qould invade Cuba and lead revolt. -
Berlin Wall
Nov, 9, 1989. Seperated the east and west Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 28, 1962 USSR placed nuclear missiles in cuba ships carrying missiles headed for Cuba. President Kennedy orders USA blockaded Cuban ports. USA and USSR brink of Nuclear War -
Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan
Feb 15, 1989 -
INF Treaty
first nuclear arms control agreement to recude nuclear arms. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes top power
general seceratary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. Also president of Soviet Union. -
German Unification
Showing the bad relationships of the East and the West. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
USSR made up of 15 seperate republics.
