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Potsdam Conference
In July 14 to August 2, 1945 was the last allied conference of WW2 was held in Potsdam, Germany.The leaders discussed peace settlements for Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties.The main concerns at Potsdam included the administration of defeated Germany and the continuing military campaign against Japan.The four occupation zones of Germany conceived at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) were set up-each to be administered by the commander-in-chief of the Soviet. -
NATO/Warsaw Pact
May 14, 1955, A treaty was signed by Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.These countries sign a treaty of peace but Albania withdrew in 1968 so did East Germany in 1990.In 1955 the Soviet Union wanted to establish a strong defense alliance against any potential military or economic threats from the West, especially with a rearmed West Germany as a member of NATO. The presence of Soviet troops led to a revival of nationalism. -
Suez Crisis
On October, 1956, 10 israeli brigades invaded Egypt and advanced toward the canal, routing Egyptian forces. Britain and France followed the plan, demand that Israeli and Egyptian troops withdraw from the canal. They would intervene to enforce a cease-fire ordered by the United Nations. On December 22 the UN evacuated British and French troops, and Israeli forces withdrew in March 1957. -
Space Race/Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth’s first artificial to space.Russians successfully launch 1st satellite into space.Competition with the US for Tech superiority. -
Perestroika (restructuring)
It is associated with the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s to restructure Soviet political and economic policy. After becoming head of the Soviet government in 1985, Gorbachev introduced the concept of perestroika. He intended it to be a program of moderate and controlled reform that would revitalize the stagnant Soviet economy. He also proposed reducing the direct involvement of the Communist Party leadership in the country's governance and increasing the local governments’ -
Glasnost (openness)
The policy was instituted by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev launched glasnost following his introduction of perestroika, a program aimed at restructuring Soviet economic and political policy. Glasnost was the second vital plank of Gorbachev’s reform efforts. He believed that the opening up of the political system-essentially, democratizing it-was the only way to overcome inertia in the soviet political.