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Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.
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World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization
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competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies during the Cold War.
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American initiative to aid Western Europe
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an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France
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American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War .
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United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance
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Died of a heart attack in Moscow, Russia.
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Selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party.
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This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest
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Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in July of that same year, initiating the Suez Crisis
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20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States
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during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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Berlin wall was completed in 1961
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Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff.
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Representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere.
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Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
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Warsaw Pact forces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as 'Prague Spring' instigated by Alexander Dubcek.
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Made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.
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The Khmer Rouge attacked and took control of Cambodia.
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Insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Russia and 13 allied countries boycotted the summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in retaliation for the US boycott of 1980.
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1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union
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Election was a victory for Gorbachev, it also revealed serious weaknesses in his power base that would eventually lead to the collapse of his presidency in December 1991.
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The two parts of Germany come back together after the second World War
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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state
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War that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
