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German Reunification
The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France. Princes of the German states gathered there to proclaim Wilhelm I of Prussia as German Emperor after the French capitulation in the Franco-Prussian War. -
Yalta Conference
The February 1945 Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
VE Day
The US and Great Britain celebrate this day for their victory in Europe during WW|| -
Potsdam Conference
the last of the WW|| meetings with the big three. -
Arms Race
An arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces. Each party competes to produce larger numbers of weapons, greater armies, superior military technology, etc. in a technological escalation. -
Creation of Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of August 2015) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948. -
Formation of West Germany
France, US, UK partitions of Germany were merged to form West Germany -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to block Allied access to the German city of Berlin in 1948 and 1949. Ultimately, the blockade turned out to be a total political failure for the Soviet Union, and the West managed to turn it into a major victory. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
NATO is Founded
The treaty was formed by 12 western nations. With the military alliance, it provided a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence. -
Korean War
the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Khrushchev led the soviet union during the height of the cold war. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
Stalin did not mellow with age; he prosecuted a reign of terror, purges, executions, exiles to the Gulag Archipelago (a system of forced-labor camps in the frozen north), and persecution in the postwar USSR, suppressing all dissent and anything that smacked of foreign, especially Western European, influence. -
Geneva Accords
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. -
Warsaw Pact
A political and military alliance between Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Vietnam War
he Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Hungarian Revolution
It started when a hungarian protest happened against the communist rule in budapest -
Space Race
The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
Cuban Revolutiion
Fidel Castro comes to power and turned the country into a communist country. -
U-2 Invasion
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Berlin Wall (Start and Completion of)
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. -
JFK is assassinated
The 35th President of the united states was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Mikhail Gorbachev come to power
The Congress of People’s Deputies elects General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as the new president of the Soviet Union. -
INF Treaty
The treaty prevents the production, testing, and deployment of a destabilizing class of weapons and inhibits an arms race of intermediate-range missile systems. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of soviet union and Boris yeltsin is president of newly independent Russian state. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
