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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was held towards the end of World War II. So you’re asking yourself: "What does some stupid conference have to do with the Cold War?". Well, many decisions were made at this conference which led to many fronts of the Cold War, most notably, Germany. -
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Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
The Czechs and Slovaks were not at the same level of economic and technological development, but the freedom and opportunity found in an independent Czechoslovakia enabled them to make strides toward overcoming these inequalities. However, the gap between cultures was never fully bridged, and the discrepancy played a continuing role throughout the seventy-five years of the union. -
NATO ratified
Established 6 years after NATO, the Warsaw Pact was formed as communist military alliance to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union gained both control over its neighboring European nations and indicated to other nations that it was a major military and political force. Although the ground forces of possessed by the Warsaw Pact were far superior to those of NATO, their technology soon fell far behind. After many democratic revolutions within the Warsaw Pact it was labeled "nonexist -
Korean War
For quite some time Korea has been taken advantage of by other nations. In 1910 the country was annexed by Japan, and was heavily exploited for its agricultural and mineral wealth. When Japan decided to invade China, the Japanese forced Koreans to work in labor camps to supply the Japanese with war goods. By the end of World War II, 4 million Koreans had been forced into labor. -
CIA helps overthrow unfriendly regimes in Iran and Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état (18–27 June 1954) was the CIA covert operation that ..... In 1951, the initial plan to overthrow the liberal Árbenz Government, ... for CIA aid and support, the Nicaraguan dictator then offered to help the U.S. of the successful Iranian coup d'état against the elected Government of Prime. -
Sputnik launched into orbit
During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union endeavored to demonstrate their power. The space race served as an opportunity for the two nations to showcase their scientific and technological capabilities. Amidst propoganda, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. competed for superiority in space as they constantly tried to top each other. -
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
American U-2 Spy Plane is Shot Down Over the Soviet Union ... of an East–West summit conference in Paris, a U.S. Lockheed U-2A spy plane, 56-6693, ... to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. ... The story of the U2 incident. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified
The treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and It was ratified by the U.S. Senate on September 24, 1963 by a vote of 80 to 19. -
Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union with nearly 5,000 tanks and 165,000 troops and an additional help from allies of the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia. The Czechoslovakian government told the invaders that "the illegal occupation of Czechoslovakia be stopped without delay and all armed troops be withdrawn." The Soviet Union tried claiming that they had been invited to try to preserve socialism, but the Czechoslovakian people showed, by protesting in the streets, that they were not welcom -
Apollo 11 lands on the moon
Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon. 1969. The launching of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, was the most significant event during the Cold War between the United States -
Mikhail Gorbachev ascends to power in Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected Gideral Secretary of the Communist Party on March 11, 1985. Gorbachev introduced certain reformations such -
Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing treaty
In 1987 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed the first major Soviet-U.S. disarmament agreement - the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The pact broke precedent in three ways. Previous treaties limited weapons, but the INF Treaty stipulated abolition of top-of-the-line missiles. Second, the deal was highly asymmetrical: Moscow gave up more than Washington. Third, the treaty's provisions were to be verified not just by "national means" (mainly, s -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
The withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from the Afghanistan began on May 15, 1988 and successfully executed on February 15, 1989 -
Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania; Soviet empire ends
The events began in Poland in 1989,[2][3] and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Romania. One feature common to most of these developments was the extensive use of campaigns of civil resistance demonstrating popular opposition to the continuation of one-party rule and contributing to the pressure for change.[4] Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to overthrow its Communist regime violently.[5] The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 failed to stimulate major pol -
Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
The Energizer Bunny of Russian politics, Boris Yeltsin was an engineer and minor Communist Party official of the U.S.S.R. before winning the Russian presidency by popular vote in 1989. As president he was a key bridge figure between old-style Soviet Communism and the Russia of the 21st century. Rough-edged, blustery and jovial, Boris Yeltsin was a populist leader late in the 1980s, as the old Soviet system was beginning to fall apart. Eager to speed up reforms, he opposed the policies of Soviet -
End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends
The fall of the Soviet Union began to happen when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. It happened shortly before midnight on March 11, 1985. The Central Committee announced that Mikhail Gorbachev would succeed Konstantin Chernenko, who had been dead for four hours. Gorbachev quickly moved to set him apart from potential rivals, he created a platform.
