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Date: Feb 4-11
Location: Yalta in Crimea
Facts: The meeting included Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
Significance: the meeting was to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Date: April 1, 1948 - May 12, 1949
Location: Germany
Facts: the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway
Significance: Western allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in west Berlin -
Date: April 4, 1949
Location: Belgium
Facts: Its an intergovernmental miliatry alliance
Significance: the organizaion constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agrees to mutual defense in response to an attack -
Date: June 25, 1950-July 27, 1953
Location: Korea
Facts: the war was between North and South Korea
Significance: United States fought for the south and China fought for the north -
Date: April 26, 1954- July 20, 1954
Location: Geneva, Switerland
Facts: Conference included the Soviet Union, United States, France, United Kingdom, and the Peoples Republic of China
Significance: find a way to settle issues on the Korea penisula and discuss possiblity of restoring peace in Indochina -
Date: May 14, 1955
Location: Central and Eastern Europe
Facts: the military complement to the CoMEcon
Significance: for Soviets desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe -
Date: October 4, 1957
Location: Baikonour
Facts: it was 58 cm in diameter, with 4 external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses
Significance: the launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developements -
Date: May 1, 1960
Location: Aramil, Sverldlovsk Oblast
Facts: During th presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sigificance: an United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet Airspace -
Date: 1961
Location: Berlin, China
Facts: it took about 3 decades for the wall to be torn down
Significance: Comunist tried to rise up against the system -
Date: June 4, 1961 - November 9, 1961
Location: Berlin
Facts: this was the last major politico-military European incident of the Cold War
Significance: the USSR provoked the Berlin Crisis, demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forcces -
Date; October 14-28, 1962
Location: Cuba, Carribean Sea
Facts: it was a 13 day confrontatioin
Significance: This was the response to the Bay of Pigs invasion -
Date: November 22, 1963
Location: Dallas, Texas
Facts: he was killed at 12:30 pm
Significance: He was shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife in a presidential motercycle -
Date: August 10, 1964
Location: Asia
Facts: it was opposed in the Senate only by senators
Significance: it gave U.S. President authorization, without a formal declartion of war by congress -
Date: January 30, 1968
Location: South Vietnam
Facts: One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
Significance: surprise attacks against military and cililian commands and controls centers throughout South Vietnam -
Date: July 20, 1969 at 20:18
Location: the moon
Facts: Armstrong was the first to step onto the lunar surface
Signifance: the first landing of humans on the moon -
Date: Feb 21-28, 1972
Location: China
Facts: The first time a United States President visited PRC
Significance: Nixon talked for the need of better relations with the PRC -
Date: June 18, 1972
Location: Vienna
Facts: The treaty never formally went into effect
Significance: agreement on limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons. -
Date: Decemeber 1991
Location: United States
Facts: It disintegrated into 15 seperate contries
Singificance: Victory for the United States -
Date: 1963
Location: United States
Facts: popular culture known this is the "red telephone"
Significance: a system that allowed direct communication between the leaders of United States and Russia