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Potsdam Confrence
This was the final wartime meeting of the " Big Three ", it delt with the future of Germany and the role of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan. -
Beginning of the Cold War
This was the 'war' for power and influence between the Solviet Union and the United States. -
U-2 Incident
A U.S spy plane was shot dowsn out of soviet union air space forcing the CIA to confess to flying spy missiona over the USSR for several years elevating the tension between the 2 nations. -
Berlin Wall
A physical barrier that seperated east/west berlin. On October 1961 the allied tanks confronted the soviet tanks causing the turmoil to become extremely tense, the success rate of escaping into west berlin was low. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviets planed to get nuclear missles.The U.S. was vulnerable to nuclear attacks. Fidel Castro came to power, the US tried to over throw him in the Bay of Pigs. Both sides settled on an agreement, and withdrew nuclear arms. -
Glasnot and Perestrokia
During the 80's the Solviet Union was engulfed with problems, the ecenomy was falling apart, there was a lack of relevent technology, they used inefficient factories, people bought low-quality productrs, and there was a shortage of social freedoms. To bring the union together, the democratization of the Communist party was promoted through Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev‘s policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost.”
Perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system -
Glasnot and Perestroika
Glasnot was a movement for social and political reforms to get more rights ans freedoms to citizens -
Fall of Communism/ Soviet Union
All became indpendent in 1991
Russian Revolution happend in 1917
Russian civil war 1918-1922
Stalin took power in 1924
Boris Yelsten was elected in December 1991
