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Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was the meeting between Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt held before the end of the Second World War, which is considered the beginning of the Cold War. Following Roosevelt's death, Churchill and Stalin were accused of failing to accept international control over countries liberated by the USSR. -
Greek civil war
The victory of the anti-communist government forces led to Greece's entry into NATO and helped define the strategic balance in the Aegean and the Balkans in post-war Europe. The civil war pitted the conservative population and the monarchist government armed forces, supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, against the Greek Communists and members of the largest anti-fascist resistance organization that had fought.This war ended in 1950 -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO. Countries involved USA, Greece and Turkey. This doctrine is often said to be the start of the cold war between the Us and USSR -
Creation of NATO
It consisted of 30 countries all over the world and lead by the US. The organization constitutes a collective defense system, in which the member states agree to defend any of its members if they are attacked by an external power.
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Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain refers to the political, ideological, and in some cases also physical, border between Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The split was also evident in two opposing military systems, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact, as well as in economic alliances and the Marshall Plan. This division into two opposing blocks in their political, military and economic conceptions gave rise to the situation known as the Cold War. -
Korean War
War between Noth and South Korea after WWII due to the failure of free elections. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea in two. With the North in charge of the Soviet Union and the South in charge of the United States
The war was one of the early episodes of the Cold War. Killing more than 3 million civilians and almost 15% of the northern population dead. Over 20 countries contributed troops and were beating the North Koreans. -
The Vietnam war
Like Korea Vietnam was split between the communist North and Democratic south, but unlike Korea the US feared that if Vietnam went communist it would start a domino effect and turn the world communist. After many battles between the US forces and Viet Kong the US due to local opposition and opposition to the war at home left the rest of the war to the Vietnamese. In the end Vietnam did fall to communism but it didn't start the domino effect as feared. This was the first war where America lost -
Hungary Conflict
The Hungarian revolution was a national revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet policies. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army expelled Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II in Europe. It ended with the Hungarian resistance continuing until November 10. More than 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops died in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. -
The Sputkin
The United States regarded itself as a world power in space technology and missile development. However, the launch of Sputnik I and the fact that one of the first two launch attempts failed, rocked American public opinion.
The launch of Sputnik initiated the space race between the US and Russia. This race was at the height of the Cold War and helped to create political, military, technical and scientific advancements. -
The Berlin Wall building
Due to the number of citizens fleeing into West Berlin causing the eastern part of the city to lose workers and causing industry to go down. In response the Russians built the Berlin Wall to keep the population in. The wall signified the Russian oppression over the people of Berlin and the seperation from the west -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Cold war confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union trough Cuba. The US attempeted to remove the communist leader in Cuba in an assualt called the Bay of Pigs which failed and left the US as the administer of the plot. In response the Soviet Union proposed an idea of sending Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba to stop any future invasion. The US responded by blockading Cuba before the mikssles got there and made the ships with the missles turn around. The crisis almost caused nuclear war. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
After 28 years of opression the Berlin wall falls and the people of East and West Germany come together to celebrate the liberation of the city. It symbolizes the fall of communism in Germany and the end of the Cold War. -
The end of the URRS
On December 26, 1991 the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union dissolved the 12 soviet commonwealths into independent states dissolving the Soviet Union. The day before the president Mikhail resigned and handed over the Nuclear launching codes to President Yeltsin making him the new leader of Russia. This event dissolved the largest communist power and ended the cold war. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a military cooperation agreement signed by the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Under the leadership of the USSR. Its express objective was to counter the NATO threat. The Pact was dissolved on July 1, 1991, after the Revolutions of 1989, symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
