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Yalta Conference
The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union get together. They discuss what to do with postwar Germany and Europe. -
Potsdam Conference
The leading members of the alliance get together to plan postwar peace while avoiding the mistakes of Paris peace conference. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats." The doctrine originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Creation of the Iron Curtain/Warsaw Pact
The political, military, and ideological barrier that the Soviet Union created to seal themselves off. -
Creation of NATO
NATO's purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means.
"North Atlantic Treaty Organization" -
Korean War
The war was North Korea vs South Korea, it started when communist North Korea invaded non-communist South Korea. Soviet and China backed the North, and United Nations backed the South -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. It ended with the U.S. withdrawing in 1973, causing the South to lose. -
Cuban Revolution
Goal to overthrow the government. They didn't like Fulgencio Batista, so Fidel Castro did guerrilla warfare. -
Space Race
A "race" between the Soviets and the U.S.A. to achieve superior spaceflight capability. -
Suez Crisis
The invasion of Egypt by Israel followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
1960 U2 Incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory. -
Berlin Crisis of 1961
East German Police blocked all ways to west Berlin. Communists pulled up train tracks and roads, and erected walls topped with barbwire. To completely isolate the west and block Germans from going to the west -
Soviet-Afghan War
Soviet withdrawal. Lasted until 1989. Soviet wanted to make them communist. -
Chernobyl Disaster
A nuclear disaster, the no 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control.
