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Postdam Conference
War time meeting of the Allied in 1945. The issues discussed were, the future of Germany, Eastern Europe, and it signaled the end of the war against Japan and the wartime allience. -
Begining of the Cold War
1947, Bernard Baruch said "today we are in a midst of c the Cold War." The Cold War was an open struggle for power and inflluence. Americans were intent on preventing the spread of communism in western Europe. -
Berlin Blockade / Airlift
Massive transport of essential supplies into Berlin. It began when Joseph Stalin restricted acsess into west Berlin closing any transport that led into the city. They only had 36 days of supplies left in the city. In order to keep communism in west Berlin. So the U.S. started air lifting supplies in until May 12th, 1949. When the blockade went down did the the U.S. stop airlifting supplies. -
Berlin Wall
It was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany in order to keep East Germans from come to the West. It was a evident symbol of the suppression of human rights by the Eastern block during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. It was considered the climax of the cold war. -
Vietnam War
The war began in 1954 after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Fall of Communism / Soviet Unioin
It was the cost of the war combined with non Russian ethnic centrifugal. The forces inherit within the Soviet Union. It eventually brought the downfall when Gorbacher resigned and the collapse was complete. -
Glasnot / Perestrokia
The country lacked technological advancements and used inefficient factories. They also suffered from a shortage of social freedoms. To reform the distraught Soviet Union, the democratization of the Communist Party was promoted through Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev‘s policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.”
