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Yalta Conference
Start of cold war. -
United Nations
The United Nations held its first meeting. -
Potsdam
Truman wants free elections in Eastern Europe, but Stalin wants buffer of Communist states in Eastern Europe. -
Iron Curtain
Nickname used to refer to Communist nations of Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
USA would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism. -
Marshall Plan
Us economic recovery for war-torn Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviets block entrances to Berlin, which cut off Allied supplies to West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
US and British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin. -
Arms Race
USSR tested first atomic bomb. -
Korean War
War between Korea and the United Nations -
Rosenberg Spy Case
Julius and Ethel were suspected to be Russian Spies. Their trial began on March 6th. They were convicted on March 29th and on April 5th they were sentenced to death for transmitting or attempting to transmit confidential info to foreign countries. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Weakened the leadership of the Soviet Union. -
Ding Diem appionted Prime Minister of Vietnam
Diem was man who refused French rule and favored American ideas. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was an alliance in opposition to NATO. It was composed of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
Nakita Kruschev broke the cold war apart. He became the leader of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev held a number of important positions in the Soviet government in the 1940s. -
Hungarian Uprising
The hungarian uprising was a rebellion that started because of all the economic difficulties. Imre Nagy declared Hungary a free nation with free elections, to try control the uprising. But Kruschev would not allow it. So the Soviet Union attacked Budapest and successfully took over Hungaria. -
Space Race
USSR sent Sputnik 1 up into space. -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba
Castro was the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then took over as the president of Cuba. He was for communism and was a political leader. -
U-2 Incident
USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The purpose was to keep the Western "facists" ideas out of Eastern Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. -
Apollo 11
The US led space mission to put the first man on the moon. -
Vietnam War
War in Vietnam. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The USSR intervened against the anti-communist government in Afghanistan. -
INF Treaty
The United States and Soviet Union on the Elimination of their Intermediate-range and Shorter-range Missiles -
German Reunification
All of Germany was reunited as one nation. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to Power
Mikhail Gorbachev is elected president of the Soviet Union. -
Reagan Doctrine
This was a strategy created by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War -
USSR Breakup
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries.
