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Conference for setting Europes organization after World War 2
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Arms race following the H-bomb explosion in Japan.
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Says that the united states will help other democrocies that are under threat.
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Marshall plan drafted
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soviet union forms blockade to keep allied countries from getting into their parts of the country.
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russia closing off their part of Berlin from the other countries.
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Korean war began
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leader of Russia dies
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Soviet leader to replace stalin.
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race to see which country can go to space successfully.
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Vietnam war began
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Plane was shot down while taking pictures for the CIA over russia, Francis Gary Powers, pilot captured and held in Russia.
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President Kennedy has Cuban exiles invade Cuba to try to get the people to revolt against the Cuban government.
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berlin wall construction began
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USSR moves missiles into Cuba. United States was afraid of missiles being so close.
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Soviet Union invade Afghanistan.
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INF treaty signed
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The Berlin wall is torn down
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Gorbachev turns the Soviet Union from communisim to a democracy.
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east and west germany unifiy to form one country
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The Soviet Union breaks up and allows democracy.