The Cold War 1945-1991 (http://www.historyonthenet.com/chronology/timelinecoldwar.htm)
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Yalta Conference meeting of FDR, Churchill, Stalin - who were know as the 'Big Three', the Soviet Union has control of Eastern Europe. The Cold War Begins
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America drops the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, almost to prove a point in dominance in the arms race in the cold war. Stating for the world that this power has been weilded and the US was not afraid to use it
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The "Iron Curtan" was not a tangible item it was a term used for the barrier that sperated the Nato countries from the Warsaw Pact Countries which included Germany, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Poland Bulgaria, and Romania. Coutires that were affiliated with the formal Soviet Union.
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Marshall Law was an economic aid program offered to any European country that would accept it from the US. This plan further seperated relations between UN and Warsaw Pact paarticipants. The plan was rejected by Stalin who proceeded to reprimend any eastern bloc country that participated. Thus only the west got aid
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As a response to the UN merger Russia cut all toads and rail links to the sectors in berlin controlled by the allies, thus west Berlin had no access to food. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift.
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The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union
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The cold war was a fight between US and USSR, that being said America joined the fight in vietnam for fear that if North vietnam won the war other south asian coutries would join the communist party.
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USSR Sputnik II carried Laika the dog, the first living creature to go into space.
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CIA trained cuban exiles attempted to invade Cuba to overthrow the Communist goverment that was controlled by Fidel Castro but the attempt was unsuccessful
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The Berlin Wall was erected in the middle of the night and kept East Germans from escaping to West Germany
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The Cuban Missle Crisis was the closest the world ever got to full nucular war. US armed forces were at the ready to use weapons should Soviet commanders attack from the island of Cuba. Thankfully Kennedy and Khrushchev avoided war
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.
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After signs of communist bloc weakening German communist leaders realized moderate change was more appropriate that full blown revolution but East Germany disagreed with this. New points to enter the West opened and on november the people of Berlin tore down the wall
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President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned and declaired his office extict and Soviet nuclear missle launching was handed over
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By decloration of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet Union, this decloration acknowledged the independence of all 15 republics of the Soviet Union.
