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Yalta Conference
Meeting between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt. In this meeting the three of them agreed to demand Germany's surrender and began plans for a post war world. Stalin agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and enter the Asian War against Japan. -
Truman Doctrine
In the doctrine, Truman estalished that the U.S would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from internal and external forces. -
Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
This treaty was created y the United States, Canada and some Western European countries to provide security against the Soviet Union. It was the first treaty the U.S entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. It was meant to maintain peace in Europe and was signed in Warsaw, Poland. -
Soviet Red Army Crushes Hungarian Revolution
Soviets tanks arrived in Budapest in order to stop Hungarian protesters who were trying to move away from the communist bloc. Thousands of Hungarians were either injured or killed. -
Fidel Castro Sworn In
On this day Fidel Castro was sworn in as the primer minister of Cuba. He forced dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile and installed a Communist government in Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs
A group of Cuban refugees trained by the CIA lands in Cuba and attempts to tropple Fidel Castro and his government. The atack turned into a complete failure due to Castro's military counterattack. -
Berlin Wall
The German Democratic Repulic (East Germany) built the wall to divide Germany into East and West. The purpose was to keep the "facists" from the West out of East Germany. For 30 years the wall was a simbol of the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 day confrontation between the U.S and the Soviet Union over Sovietb ballistics missiles being deployed to Cuba. President Kennedy notified Americans of this event on national TV and people feared the worst. The crisis came to an end when Khrushchev agreed to remove the Cuban missiles and the U.S promised not to invade Cuba. -
Sino- Soviet Border Conflict
A conflic between the Soviet Union and China that lasted seven months, from March- September. The border etween China and the Soviet Unions was poorly demarcated and tensions escalated in 1969. After seven months of harrassment from both sides, the conflic was resolved diplomatically. -
Fall of Saigon
The People's Army of Vietnam and Viet Cong captured Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. This marked the end of the Vietnam War. It was also the start of the transition period leading to the reunification of Vietnam. -
Mikhail Gorachev Becomes Leader of the Soviet Union.
Gorachev was elected General Secretary after Konstantin Chernenko's death. His primary goal was to revive the Soviet economy and initiated the concept of gospriyomka which represented state approval of goods. He became president of the Soviet Union on March 15th, 1990. -
Tiananmen Square Protests
Protests led y university students demanding reforms y the Chinese Communist government. The students qnd other demonsdtrators occupied the square for seven weeks. On June 3rd the military initiated a crackdown where troops inflicted casulaties on civilians. This eventually ecame known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
On this date East Germany announced that the borders between East and West Germany was open and that people were able to cross. After that people from both sides began to arrive with hammers and chiesels, they bagan breaking down the wall and celebrated this historical event. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
By Decemer 1991 ten of the twelve Union republics had declared independence. On Decemer 8th, the president of Russia, Ukraine and Belaurus declared the Soviet Union dissolved. Gorachev resigned as the president of the USSR. Boris Yeltsin became the president of Russia in June 1991 in the first presidential election in Russian history.
