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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference Was a conference in Crimea on February 4-11, 1945. It brought together the big three allied leaders, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. During this conference they discussed Europe's postwar reorganization. The main purpose of Yalta was for the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. You could say that this is what started the Cold War. -
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Yalta Conferene
1945: The Yalta Conference- Was a conference in Crimea on February 4-11, 1945. It brought together the big three allied leaders, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. During this conference they discussed Europe's postwar reorganization. The main purpose of Yalta was for the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. You could say that this is what started the Cold War. -
The Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. Addressing a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey which then established the Truman doctrine, -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade Was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. -
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USSR becomes the world's 2nd nuclear power
USSR explodes its first atomic bomb, and Communists takes the control over China -
The Korean War Begins
The Korean War Begins was a war between the Republic of Korea, and the Democratic People of Korea. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the end of World War II. The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. It was the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War. -
Rosenburg Executions
Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Morton Sobell, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were arrested for the involvement in a spy-circle that sold atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. Ultimately only the Rosenburgs were executed and they happened to be Jewish so people assumed it was because of Anti-Semitism, or prejudice against Jews. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 The Apollo 11 mission was one of the most significant events in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite, and successfully sent a man into space, America rushed to develop the technology that the Soviets already had, prompting the creation of the Apollo program. Apollo 11 was a mission to complete the first manned lunar landing. -
Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan
Soviet Invasion in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict during the Cold war. supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement. The mujahideen received unofficial military and financial support from a variety of countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia and China. -
Boris Yeltsin is elected president of Russia
Boris Yeltsin gets elected as Russian president Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev. Emerged as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponent. He won 57% of the vote in a six-candidate contest and became the second democratically elected leader of Russia in history. He vowed to transform Russia's socialist command economy into a free market economy. -
Cold War Ends
The Cold War Ends Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union fought an increasingly frustrating war in Afghanistan.Attempted reforms at home left the Soviet Union unwilling to rebuff challenges to its control in Eastern Europe.During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened.In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.
