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At Tehran, and at the next major conference of the Big Three at Yalta in 1945, the leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin of the US, UK, and USSR met to reach a number of important agreements about Germany.
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This timeline is made of all the most important events that happened durin the Cold War period.
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The US and Soviet Union join a large international organization called the United Nations with other 48 countries.
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Stalin creates the Iron Curtain dividing Eastern and Western Europe.
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The Truman Doctrine (the US support to countries who rejected communism), Marshall announces an aid program to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II that will become known as the Marshall Plan.
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Soviet Union blocks all road and rail traffic to and from West Berlin; a cut off from the outside world.
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The Federal Republic of Germany is formally established as a separate and independent nation. Later the communist German Democratic Republic is founded.
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In 1949, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own. It shocked the United States because they were not expecting them to possess nuclear weapon knowledge.
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There was a ceremony in which Mao Zedong, proclaimed The People's Republic of China was formally established, with its national capital at Beijing.
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The United States tests the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. This gave a little advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
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North Korea's invasion of South Korea began in which the United Nations took part too.
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The Federal Republic of Germany joins NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a mutual defense thet wanted Soviet expansion in Europe. It also forms the Bundeswehr, the first Germany army to exist after Hitler's fall.
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The process of elimination of the political policies, methods, and personal image of Joseph Stalin.
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The communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West.
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The Cuba crisis: Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union situation was tense. After the Soviets position nuclear war heads in Cuba, the United States threatens war.
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The US, Great Britain and the Soviet Union countries agree to suspend or stop surface and underwater tests of nuclear weapons, any kind.
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Negotiations and talks between the United Nations and the Soviet Union began on the reduction nuclear weapons; providing limits on strategic offensive systems.
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the development of a world-wide "Star Wars" missile to use ground and space-based systems to protect the country from attack.
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Fall of the Berlin Wall, germans from both sides danced on the wall. Families were reunited. German flags unfurled. Berlin was no longer a divided city.
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The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was crumbled by declaration № 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.