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Period: to
Cold War Project
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Atomic Age
Age of Atomic Weapons and the threat of using them -
Yalta Conference
DIvided Germany into 4 regions -
Death of FDR
served as 32 president -
Truman Elected
33 president -
Hiroshima Nuke
Little boy was the code name -
Arms Race
Competition to have the best army -
Nagasaki Nuke
Fat boy was the name of it -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. would support containment policy -
Policy of Containment
prevent the spread of communism -
Marshall Plan
American Invitation to aid europe -
Berlin Blockade
First Major international crisis of the Cold War -
Berlin Airlift
Flew planes over berlin wall for supplies -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Korean War
U.S. aided South Korea -
Joseph Stalin's Death
Died of a massive heart attack -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
named secretary of communist party -
Vietnam War
Second Indochina war -
Warsaw Pact
Put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of any of the member states -
Space Race
Competition to be the first to get to space -
U-2 incident
U.S. spyplane was shot down over soviet union airspace -
First person to space
Yuri Gagarin -
Bays of Pigs Incident
Cubans launched an invasion on the south coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall Completion
Split Berlin into east and west -
Cuban Missile Crisis
between Cuba Russia and U.S. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
lasted nine years faught between soviet and afghan forces -
Berlin Wall destruction
Seperated Germany -
INF Treaty
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between US and Soviet Union -
German Reunification
Berlin reunited into a single city -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Presidency eventually collapsed in 1991 -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
Seperated to into 15 different countries
