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Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was a secret that consisted of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. This secret meeting had all 3 agree on demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
On this date, The US dropped the bomb, "Enola Gay", killing 80,000 people. This was the first succesfull use of nuclear power in the Cold war. After this everyone prepared their own nuclear explosives. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam against United States. United States was preventing the spread of communism. -
First East European Communist Government in Albania
Communists took control of Albania. They then took over another 7 Eastern European nations. This was important in the Cold war because this was the land for the Communists. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was speech given by President Harry Truman, asking congress to help support the Greek government from the Communists. He also asked congress to support Turkey as well. -
Marshall Plan
George Marshall gave a speech at harvard that said it was intended to rebuild the economies and spirits of western Europe, primarily. Marshall was convinced the key to restoration of political stability lay in the revitalization of national economies. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was what supplied needs for the people living in Berlin. This transported more than 2.3 million tons of cargo to Western Berlin. -
Berlin Blockade
The blockade was able to limit France, Great Britian and the United States from traveling to their sectors of Berlin -
Council For Mutual Assistance
This was founded in Moscow. It's goal was to bind the East European satellite states closer economically to the Soviet Union. This was during the Marshall Plan so it was difficult for The Council For Mutual Assistance. -
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb
On this date, the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. The US knew this meant conflicts in the future. -
Federal Republic of Germany
Federal Republic of Germany was West Germany. United in Europe with the German Democratic Republic, East Germany. This strenghtened Europe. -
Korean War
Started off as just a battle between North and South Korea until the United Nations joined and helped South Korea. This brought the Cold war to Asia. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
The new leader, Nikita Khrushchev, denounced Stalin and his policies, and reduced its armed forces by more than 600,000 troops. He called for peace between the east and west. -
Warsaw Pact
"Treaty of mutual friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance." This was signed by Albania, the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, the Hungarian People’s Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Polish People’s Republic, the Rumanian People’s Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Czechoslovak Republic. This was a sign of Communist dominance. -
Red Army crushes the Hungarian Revolution
Soviet forces launched a major attack on Hungary aimed at crushing, once and for all, the spontaneous national uprising that had begun 12 days earlier.The defeat of the Hungarian revolution was one of the darkest moments of the Cold War. -
Space Race
The soviet union launched the first satelite named, Sputnik, to be hurled into to orbit the Earth. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 incident was when the USSR shot down an American u-2 spy plane and captured the pilot. Eisenhower was sentenced 10 years in jail but was exchanged for a captured Soviet agent. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
US went to invade Cuba but was defeated by Castros army. The US stopped buying sugar from them. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall started on August, 13, 1961. It was completed around 1980. It was a wall between East and West Berlin. The purpose of it was to keep people from Western Berlin out. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union was going to launch missiles on the US, but the US promised not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union would remove the missiles. -
China Explodes First Atomic Bomb
On this day, China was the 5th member of the atomic bomb capability, joining US, Soviet Union, Great Britian, and France. This didn't suprise anyone because China was working for this for awhile. -
Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising.
Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Joseph Stalin then took over Czechoslovakia. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent over 1,000 troops intro Afghanistan and controlled the area. The USA and its European allies tried to get the Soviet Union to withdrawal. -
US invades Grenada
This was an easy victory for the US, Grenada had no chances at stopping them. Reagan championed the invasion as another step toward ridding the world of Communism, but the big victory over the little island also served as a major public relations coup for the recently battered administration. -
INF Treaty
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Gorbachev was elected to a 5 year term as president for the Soviet Union. Gorbachev had the nation at terrible economic performance and did a bad job at controlling the empire. He reisgned from president in December, 1991. -
German Reunification
the democratisation of the east, especially made possible by Mikhail Gorbachev, and the courage of thousands of people who fought for their freedom. At the end of 1989 these events came together and ended up a new state - the Federal Republic as we know it today. -
U.S.S.R Breakup
Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. -
Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was what many people feared. It was about who had the most nuclear weapons and explosives. This made many countries fear about what was about to happen. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Nakita Khruschev took over after Joseph Stalin died. He served first as a Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
