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Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was the result in the beginning of the Cold War. The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Blockade of Berlin
The Berlin blockade heightened Western Europe's fears of Soviet agression. During the multinational occupation of the Post WWII Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the western allie. -
Western European Nations
In 1949, ten Western Europezn nations joined with the United States and Canada to from a defensive military alliance. This alliance was called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Berlin Blockades Ended
The Berlin Blockades ended on May 12, 1949 the Cold War came to an end when the Soviet Union lifted its 11-month blockade against West Berlin. The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin’s two million citizens. -
Korean War Starts
On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces surprised the South Korean army and quickly headed toward the capital city of Seoul. The United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.’s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. -
Korean War Ends
After three years of a horrible nasty and bloody war, the United States and the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America’s first experiment with the Cold War concept of “limited war.” -
The U.2 plane
The aircraft was flown by Central Intelligence Agency and the pilot was Francis Gary Powers. He was performing aerial reconnaissance when the plane was hit by an S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline). -
Construction Begins
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Troops are dispatched!
The US dispatched 150,000 to Vietnam in 1965, the United States rapidly increased its military forces in South Vietnam. The realization that the South Vietnamese government was losing the Vietnam War. -
Cold War Ends
After a long series of revolutions in Soviet Bloc states, a failed coup by conservative elements opposed to the ongoing reforms, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. This was the ending to the Cold war.
