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Was held at Potsdam in Soviet Occupation. At this conference they confirmed plans to disarm and demilitarize Germany. -
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. What happened was Germany and the Soviet Union, blocked the Western Allies' Railway. -
A fight between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea started it by invading South Korea. -
It was a military and political effort to overthrow the Cuban government. It began after the Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state. -
A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. The competition was to achiever superior spaceflight capability. -
Was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This was a major conflict of the Cold War. -
A U-2 spy plane was shot down by Soviet Air defense services. This resulted in the cancellation of the Paris Summit, which was scheduled to discuss the ongoing situation in divided Germany. -
It was a failed military operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba. This event took place by the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, which consisted of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution. -
It lasted 13 days, was a confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Was the second Arab-Israeli war. It was also referred to as the "Tripartite Aggression" by Arabs. The Israeli's called it "Sinai War" in Israel. -
The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries whom were; The Soviet Union, Polish People's republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria and the Hungarian People's Republic. -
This war was a protracted armed conflict, that was fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
What caused it was the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. That happened near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. -
It was the first step to German reunification. Political changes was the cause of the wall falling. Sort of gave Germany a new sort of freedom. -
established the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a sovereign state and subject of international law. Economic stagnation and the overextension of the military were some causes of this fall.