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After the conference that took place at the end of WW2 Germany was divided as a sort of punishment I guess and their military was decreased. Germany was split so that Great Britain was in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the Soviet Union in the east. The city of Berlin was split into four between the four countries. ⭐⭐⭐ -
There had been strain between them for quite a while during world war two but 1945 marks the day where the cooperation ended completely. ⭐⭐⭐ -
1947-1989
Some dude named George created the containment policy which was the US way of fighting the Cold war with the Soviet Union. Containment basically meant to not let ideas of capitalism spread.⭐⭐ -
1948-1949
Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom started sending over supplies by air instead which made The Soviets give up on that. ⭐ -
The Marshall plan provided good trading partners, markets for American goods and supported the making of stable democratic governments. ⭐ -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made to protect a lot of countries near the Atlantic Ocean so that if one was attacked they would all defend. ⭐⭐⭐ -
1950-1953
Korean was split into North and South. USSR was in control of one half while Americans controlled the other side. It was supposed to be temporary but ideologies got in the way. Truman Doctrine came into play encouraging Americans to get involved in order to stop expansion of communism. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
United States developed a hydrogen bomb. ⭐⭐⭐ -
They made a hydrogen bomb like the US. ⭐⭐⭐
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The French were pushed out by the Vietnamese after a four month siege.⭐⭐ -
A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe. ⭐⭐⭐ -
1955-1957
US went to Vietnam to prevent a communist government from taking over the region and expanding elsewhere but it failed and they eventually pulled back. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
There was an uprising 12 days before Hungary was crushed and thousands were killed, wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
The Soviet theory of peaceful coexistence asserted that the United States and USSR. ⭐ -
The USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. ⭐ -
The U-2 incident resulted in the cancellation of the Paris Summit scheduled to discuss the ongoing situation in divided Germany and the tension between the US and the USSR. ⭐⭐ -
Cuban exiles launched what became an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. ⭐⭐⭐ -
The Berlin Wall was built as a way to stop the spread of expansionism from the US and United Kingdom into the Soviet side of Berlin. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. They stood on the brink of Nuclear War all it would have took was to push one button. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
Establishment of a Direct Communications Line. ⭐ -
Prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons/ bombs except for those conducted underground. Which was signed after Cuban Missile Crisis.⭐ -
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends of Prague Spring.⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
Because of China's long-standing fight against aggression they were allowed to join the UN to help keep the peace. ⭐⭐⭐ -
SALT stands for Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty was signed to limit the number of missiles being built and AMB (anti-ballistic missile) sites. ⭐⭐ -
They were signed after 10 years of negotiations. Two super powers along with some other European countries signed tis agreement. It also included a rejection of interventionist policies like the Truman Doctrine. ⭐ -
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan began on 24 December 1979. Within days, Soviet troops had been air-dropped into Afghan cities, heavy artillery had breached the border, and the they had poisoned the Afghan president and his ministers. The invasion sparked a terrible nine year civil war. ⭐⭐⭐ -
Solidarity was a social movement towards less strict control, using methods of civil resistance to encourage change. The government attempts to destroy the union through imposing martial law in Poland and the use of political repression which ultimately failed and caused uprisings. ⭐⭐ -
Strategic Defense Initiative was nicknamed Star wars was designed to protect the US against potential nuclear attacks.
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Gorbachev and Regan signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The treaty was signed by the US and Soviet Union in agreement that they would both eliminate their weapons class and reduce the number of weapons in their nuclear stockpiles. ⭐ -
The imaginary wall that divided the ideologies in Germany. ⭐⭐ -
Five days after a mass protest on 9 November 1989 the Berlin wall crumbled when the soldiers weren't told what was going on and all they knew was that the laws with the wall were being changed so they did nothing as it was torn down. ⭐ -
The wall had come down and Germany came together again. Families reunited and such. ⭐ -
Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union and was replaced to form the Russian Tricolour. ⭐. -
They just kinda declared it over after Gorbachev resigned. ⭐ -
Strategic Arms Resolution Talks reduced the number of weapons being built. START would actually start to destroy some of the stockpiles. ⭐