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The Cuban Revolution was an armed unspring led by Fidel Castro that eventually topped the brutal dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. -
Yalta Conference took place in a Russian town in the Crimea from February 4-11, 1945 -
It was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17-Aug 2, 1945 to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace. -
The United Nation was the second multipurpose international organization established in the 20th century that was worldwide in scope and membership. -
Heightened political repression against communist, as well as a campaign spreading fear of their influence on American institutions and of espionage by Soviet agents. -
The Truman Doctrine arose from a speech delivered by President Truman before a joint session of Congress on March 12,1947 -
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany. -
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 this invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rival. -
The Vietnam War was a long, costly conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
It began on Oct 29, 1956 when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
The pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying through Soviet airspace. The fallout over the incident resulted in the cancellation of the Paris Summit. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961 was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power. -
East and West Berliners came together in celebration. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. -
It was Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union. It began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.