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Feb 1945 Yalta Conference
Prime minster Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Jospeh Stalin, and President Roosevelt are all 3 leaders that agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender. They began plans for a post-war world. Stalin had agreed to the permit free elections which had been in Eastern Europe. Which then entered the Asain War against Japan. (history) -
1947-1952 The Marshall Plan
The plan had been to rebuild the the econonies and spirits of western Europe. 16 nations became part of the program and shaped the assitance provivded by ECA of the U.S. European Nations recieved about 13 million in AID. This was from shipments in food, staples, fuel and machinery from the US. Later investments from within the industrial capacity in Europe, fundings ended in 1951. Marshall had planned a great way for the economis recovery. (marshallfoundation.org) -
March 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine
Truman had asked for the U.S assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of 2 nations. Truman had requested $400 million in assistance for the two nations. Two months later he had got it. (history) -
June 1948 Berlin Airlift
The Russians had closed all the highways, railroads and canals. They had did this because they wanted Berlin all to themselves. In their minds they had thoughts it was going to help them drive out Britain, France and the U.S. for need of supplies. This did not work. Their supply had been known was "B.A." More then 2.3 million tons of cargo had been carried into the West of Berlin. (history) -
April 4, 1949 NATO
NATO= North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The United States and along with 11 other western nations had formed NATO. A primarily security pact along with article 5 stating military attacks against any signorities U.S. secretary of the State had signed the document. This document contained information that reflected change in American Foreign policy. Involving in NATO (Belguim, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the U.S.) (History) -
August 20, 1949 USSR Atomic Bomb
The remote test site had been in Kazakhstan USSR successfully defonates the first atomic bomb. Which they had created a test area also for buildings and animals as well. The soviet physicist had been honored and gave achievement awards. (history) -
June 25, 1950 Korean War Begins
Armed forces of communist North Korea had set off a war with South Korea. Which had started Korean War. The United States had defensed of South Korea fighting with them for three years. (history) -
April 5, 1951 Rosenberg Spy Case
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are a married couple who are convicted for conspiracy to commiting espionage in 1951, they are put into the electric chair. They had been accused of headinga spy ring in which gave top-secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. They had denied this information on April 5, 1951. They had been sentenced to death. They were executed on June 19, 1953. They had left their two sons behind with nothing. (history) -
March 20, 1953 Khrushchev begins to rise
Khrush had taken advantage of madiocre Malenkov, he created a coalition renounce Malenkous post as 1st secretary. It had controlled the party apparatus in soviet union. march 1958 he took power over the office of premier himself. He had the power to create tension with the US and Soviet Union. (history) -
June 17, 1953 East Germany Uprising
Riots had begun in East Berlin among the construction workers, who had taken the streets on June 16, 1953. Which was to increase their work schudules by comm., gov. of the E.G. The next the crowd of workers and anti-gov had dissidents from 30,000-50,000. On June 17 the protests had been shattered and relatively calm. (history) -
July 27, 1953 Korean War Ends
After the war that lasted for three years with the U.S, P.R.C, NK, and SK, they had all agreed to an armistice. Which had created limited war from then on. Then new boarders had been drawn between SK and NK. South Korea had recieved some territoy and demilitarize the zone that had been between two nations. (history) -
May 14, 1955 Warsaw Pact
The people who joined the USSR alliance was Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. This pact was focused on the main objective to create a coordinated defense among the member nations. They had provided a mechanism for Soviets to exercise a even tighter control over the communist states in Eastern Europe. (history) -
Oct. 4, 1957 Sputnik
A small sateillite had been launched in outerspace, its job was to orbit around the Earth. The soviets had got so far ahead with technology, that the americans started to fear their new inventions they had made. (history) -
Nov. 4, 1959 Hungarian Uprising
Two weeks in Hungaryhad been in protest and political instability. Soviet tanks and troops took down the protests signs. A quarter of a million fled into the country. (history) -
May 1, 1960 U2 Incident
The American U2 spy plane had been shot down during the esionage over the Soviet Union. -
April 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs
The invasion had began through the CIA financing and training cuban refugees. The land in Cuba had been attempting to over throw the Fidel Castro. (history) -
August 12, 1961 East Germany (Berlin Wall Building)
The refugees had been trying to leave the east of Berlin. The communist of gov. of E.G. had began to build the Berlin wall then though. which was to divide the east and west of Berlin. The construction during this time had caused a shortterm crisis in the U.S. and soviet bloc relations, the wall had became a cold war symbolism. 80 people had been killed that tried to escape. (history) -
Oct. 22, 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis
The leaders of the US and Soviet Union engaged with a tense 13 day political and military standoff. this standoff had been over installation of the nuclear-armed soviet missiles on Cuba. -
Jan. 5, 1968 Prague Spring
Czech. first had sec. was Antonin Novaotny. Dubcek's reforms invasion Czech. by 600,000 War saw pact troops. Freedom was known as Prague Spring. -
Nov. 9, 1989 (Berlin Wall Fall)
When the Cold War had began to slowly die down across the east of Europe the spokesman for the East Berlins communist party announced a message with the citys relationship with the west. When it had become midnight the citizens of the DGR had become free to cross the countrys borders. Two billion Berliners had come with hammers and picks to knock down the wall by chuncks. The wall was soon gone and Berlin was finally united since 1945. (history) -
January 18, 1990
Unification had changed Germany into a political and administrative integrated nation. Unification had exposed all of the multiple glaring religious, linguistic, social and cultural differences. All the new differences that had been made, had been pointed out to the new nations. (wikipedia) -
March 14, 1990 Mikail Gorbechev comes to power
The congress of the people's deputies elected Gorbachev to a 5 year plan of being a President. By 1991 the domestic critics had been pillorying him because the nations had a horrible economis performance and faltering control over the Soviet Empire. In December of 1991 he had resigned as a President. The soviet Union had dissolved and he had credited just for instituting a dizzy number of reforms. That had been loosened a tight grip on the communism of the Soviet people. (history)
