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Soviet army marches into Berlin; the German Capital City falls as World War II ends. Soviet Union, United States, Great Britan and France divide Berlin and Germany in foure zone during the Yalta conference
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British Prime Minister Winston churchill's "Iron Curtain" speecj mark the beginning of the Col War
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The Berlin Airlift supplies West Berlin with baisc necessitle after the Soviet Union block of the city in order to force the west to give up.
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More than 300,000 east German flee to West Berlin and then to West Germany
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Cuba becomes communist under Fideal Castro.
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Soviet lead East Germany dividing Berlin with the Berlin Wall
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The CUban Missile Crisis creates a threat to the United States between the Soviet Union when Soviet missile were discovered in Cuba
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The sSoviets blan US of encouraging an Israeli attack and sezure of the Six Day War.
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Richard Nixon becomes the first US learder to visit communist China, leading into a thawing of the cold war.
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The Central Intelligence Agency helps overthrow Chilie's socialist government under Salvador Allende
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The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, begining of a decoade long war.
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Mikhail Gorbacher become soviet leader, he begins to ease away old communist polices.
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US president Regan and Soviet leader, Gorbacher sign INF teaty, to remove medium and short range nuclear missiles.
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The Berlin wall is knock over. Thus combining east and west Germany.
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The Strag, Arms Reduction Tslk (START) is signed by president Bush and Soviet leader Mikhasil Gorbachev. THis was to call for disarmamnet of both US and Soviet nuclear weapon. The cold war ends.
