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Feb 11, 1945 Cited as the start of the Cold War
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USA would provide military aid.
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US economic recovery for war torn Europe.
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May 11, 1949 soviets blocked enterance to Berlin.
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U.S and British airplanes fly supplies
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U.S.S.R exploded 1st atomic bomb.
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July 27,1953 UN forces sent in to stop communist aggresion.
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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.
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Soviets leader after Stalin DIes.
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April 30,1975. Divided into North and South Vietnam, North was communist and South was democratic.
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1975 Sputnik, and the 1st satellite.
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U-2 American spy plane shot down by USSR
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April 19,1961 Cuban exiles qould invade Cuba and lead revolt.
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Nov, 9, 1989. Seperated the east and west Berlin.
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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
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Feb 15, 1989
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first nuclear arms control agreement to recude nuclear arms.
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general seceratary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. Also president of Soviet Union.
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Showing the bad relationships of the East and the West.
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USSR made up of 15 seperate republics.
