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Yalta Conference
Date: February 4th - February 11th 1945 The Yalta conference was a meeting between the big 3 allied countries, these were the United States, Russia (USSR), and Great Britain. They discussed the reconstruction of post war Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked off highways and roads to the other countries' portions of Berlin. The other countris decided to supply their sectors of Berlin by air. -
NATO Formation
A military pact signed by 22 countires in North America and throughout Europe. -
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Korean War
war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards -
The Geneva Accords
Meeting of European nations and the United States that discussed the Korean peninsula and Indochina. The conference ended in Vietnam being split into 2 parts. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pac was a tresaty between 8 communist nations in Europe. The only big name in it was Russia. -
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The Vietnam War
War between North and South Vietnam. North was communist and south was republic. The United States backed South Vietnam. -
Launch of Sputnik
USSR launches firt satellite. Starting the space race between U.S. and the USSR -
U-2 incident
U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down in soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
U.S. backed military group tried to invade Cuba to try to spur a revolution and make Cuba a democratic country. This attack failed. -
Berlin Crisis
the USSR started this conflict by demanding the U.S. to withdrawl from western Germany or they will put up the wall. -
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The Berlin Wall
Wall built in the middle of Germany by East Germany. Signifying the difference between communism and democracy. When the wall fell it signified the fall of communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. Got information that the USSR was moving balistic missiles to Cuba. This was the closest the world has ever been to a full scale nuclear war. -
Moscow-Washington Hotline Created
Direct Communications from Washington D.C. (The pentagon) to moscow Russia (Kremlin). -
John F. Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee harvey Oswald. JFK was in is car with his roof down waving to fnas and supporters. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
The Tet Offensive
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies -
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface. -
Richard Nixon Visits China
step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited China, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
SALT II Signed
The treaty basically established numerical equality between the two nations in terms of nuclear weapons delivery systems. It also limited the number of MIRV missiles -
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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. The Peshawar Seven insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as weapons and billions of dollars from the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and other -
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Invasion of Grenada
1983 United States–led invasion of Grenada that resulted in a U.S. victory within a matter of weeks. Triggered by the house arrest and murder of the leader of the coup which had brought a revolutionary government to power for the preceding four years, the invasion resulted in a restoration of the pre-revolutionary regime -
Berlin Wall Falls
The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. Reuniting Germany. -
Mikhail Gorbachev Elected
Last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev's policies of openness and restructuring as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan and his reorientation of Soviet strategic aims contributed to the end of the Cold War -
The Soviet Union Collapses
the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to Russian President Boris Yeltsin.