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Yalta Conference, WWII Ends in Europe, U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Potsdam Conference
In the five months since the Yalta Conference, a number of changes had taken place, The Soviet Union was occupying Central and Eastern Europe, America had a new President, and the war was ending, Therefore the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. -
Communist seize power in Poland
The new communist government in Warsaw solidified its political power over the next liberal faction of the Polish communists of Władysław Gomułka to gain power. -
Berlin Airlift begins
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens -
NATO established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in cotrol -
Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba and establishes communism
First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba from Returning to Cuba, Castro became a prominent figure in protests against mountains several miles to the north, where they could establish a guerrilla base. -
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, East Germany builds Berlin Wall
A CIA-organized force of anti-Castro Cuban exiles attempts to invade Cuba, landing at a place called the Bay of Pigs. Rather than toppling Castro's. East Germany builds the Berlin wall, dividing East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, known as the October Crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean Crisis in the USSR was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam
This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. -
South Vietnam falls to Communist forces
communist forces move into Saigon, where they meet only sporadic. The South Vietnamese forces fell back in total disarray -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the Soviet Union
the de jure leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist had become an open battle, with the Supreme Soviet refusing to recognise the actions of the two republics. -
Berlin Wall is demolished
The fall of the Berlin Wall had begun with the building of the Wall in 1961. However it took about three decades until the Wall was torn down. -
The Soviet Union is abolished. Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.
The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in 1991. Forty-one people held the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
