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The Yalta Conference was held towards the end of World War II. Many decisions were made at this conference which led to many fronts of the Cold War, most notably, Germany.
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The U.S. used atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By doing this they started a costly invasion of Japan.
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The city of Berlin became a centerpiece of the Cold War, playing a particularly significant role in Europe. East met West in this divided city where the Berlin wall was a tangible symbol of the "Iron Curtain."
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A Communist takes over China. He converted China into a single-party socialist state. Until his death he governed China as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
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On June 25th, 1950, the powder keg exploded. North Korea, with the backing of the Soviet Union, attacked South Korea. The United States quickly moved to get United Nations condemnation of the attack.
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The Soviet Union launches Sputnik which was the first satellite launched into space.
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A Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro takes ovver Cuba. He who was Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976.
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John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States
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The Bay of Pigs was an American invasion of Cuba that only lasted 3 days.
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The city of Berlin became a centerpiece of the Cold War, playing a particularly significant role in Europe. East met West in this divided city where the Berlin wall was a tangible symbol of the "Iron Curtain." After World War II, Germany was divided into four occupation zones administered by four nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
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A 14 dyas confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. This was the closest incident where the Cold War came to turning into a nuclear conflict.
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Apollo 11 carried an American man who was the first man that officially landed on the moon.
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All intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe under the agreement of Reagan and Gorbachev.
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The two men agreed to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing a treaty.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990.
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The military alliance between the Soviet Union and the surrounding eastern European satellites comes to an end.
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The fall of the Soviet Union began to happen when Mikhail Gorbachev came to power. At a Central Committee meeting in April of 1985, Gorbachev and his allies called for "revolutionary changes". In a July of '86 speech the new leader said of the term perestroika, "I would equate it with the word 'revolution.'"
