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Meeting between churchill, roosevelt and stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war. They were discussing the postwar reorganization of germany and europe. -
Formally divided germany and austria into four zones. It was also agreed that the german capital berlin would be divided into four zones. The russian polish border was determind and korea was to be divided into soviet and american zones. -
Churchill delivers his sinews of peace speech. His speech contained the famous phrase''.. An iron curtain has descended on europe. -
President truman promised to help any country facing a communist takeover. Is an american foreign policy that pledges american support for democracies against authoritartian threats. -
Russia response to the merger of the french, usa and uk partitions of berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This ment that those living in western berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. -
The north atlantic treaty organisation formed with member states. Belgium, canada, denmark, france, iceland, italy, luxembourg, netherlands, norway, portugal, uk, usa. -
The korean war ended. north korea remained affiliated with russia while south korea was affiliated with the usa. -
Formed with member states east germany, czechoslovakia, poland, hungary, romania, bulgaria, and the soviet union. A treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance. -
Following military bombardment by its real forces, a joint british and french forces invaded egypt to regain control of the suez canal which had been nationalised by the egyptain leader nasser. The attack was heavily criticised by world leaders, especially america because russia had offered to support egypt. -
USSR sputnik 2 carried lakia the dog, the first living creature to go to space. A compeition between two cold war rivals. -
A force of cuban exiles, trained by the cia, aided by the us government attempted to invade cuba and overthrow the communist government of fidel castro. The attempt failed. -
A u.s. Spy plane reported sighting the countruction of a soviet nuclear missle base in cuba. Presedent kennedy set up a navel blockade and demanded the removel of the missles. War was averted when the russians agreed to remove the weapons. -
Warsaw pack forces entered czechoskovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as pragvespring, instigated by alexander dubcek. Later on he was arrested. -
President richard nixton ordered us troops to go to cambodia.It was a major cold war conflict. -
An explosion at the chernobyl nuclear power plant in the ukraine, remains the worst disaster in history. The disaster caused serious radiation sickness.