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Roosevelt discussed with Stalin the conditions under the soviet union would enter the war against japan and all three agreed that in exchange for potentially crucial soviet participation -
Established after WW2 was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating the American society -
occured immediatley after world war 2 was preoccupied with the perception that national or foreign communists were infiltrating's the American society -
Established that the United State would provided political military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat -
Created by the United States, Canada and several westerns European nations to provide collective security against the soviet union -
Joseph Stalin cut off all land and river transit between west berlin and west germany -
Was a social and armed conflict led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the government of Fulgencio Batista -
North Korea, supported by the soviet union invaded the south on the 15th of June, which was supported by the USA. led to the death of 3 million people -
Began as an arms race between the respective military's of the untied states and the soviet union, became into the two country's seeing who could touch the moon first. -
An abortive invasion of Cuba in April by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro -
Was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union, The Soviet Union were secretly installing missiles in Cuba -
North Vietnam wanted to reunited the country under communism, Its political and economic system. South fought to keep this from happening -
The fourth reactor at the nuclear power plant at Chornobyl Ukraine went out of control during a test at low-power it exploded and released large amounts of radiation -
Five days after half a million people gathered in East Berin in a mass protest, The wall dividing East Germany and West Germany had crumbled -
The unsuccessful August 1991 coup against Gorbacjev sealed the fate of the Soviet Union, This was planned by hard-lined communists. The coup diminished Gorbachev's power