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The formal unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 at the Versailles Palace's Hall of Mirrors in France
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Direct U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress. The capture of Saigon at the hands of the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war
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the three big powers meet up and discuss germany
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20 kiloton bomb 'Little Boy' kills 80,000
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End of WW ll -Now that Japan finally defeated
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Iron Curtain Speech- Winston Churchill was stating that the Russians have cut off Eastern-Europe from the Western-World and imposed communism on them.
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International relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech
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The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1947 and 1951
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first major international crises
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one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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The phrase arms race, in its original usage, is a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces. americans-russians
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race to space between russia and america. russia won
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the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south
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The United States lays the keel for the world's first nuclear-powered submarine
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The United States tests their first thermonuclear bomb
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dies from a massive heart attack
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Korean War Ends- This marked the stop of large-scale open warfare between the Allies and the communist side until the Vietnam war. This is where the tension starts to build with both sides waiting for the other to strike.
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KGB formed- The KGB where an intelligent agent for the USSR from 1954 to the end of the Cold War. The Russians didn't trust everyone in the USSR so the KGB were always making arrests on suspects who they believed to be spy's/traitors. This allowed the Russians to have a better knowledge of what was happening in there empire but a lot of the time, it was corrupt.
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came to power because of stalins death
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Now that Cuba had been taken over by Fidel Castro, America would not be able to relax knowing that Cuba is situated only 90 miles away. If Castro decides to team up with China or Russia, America would have to be very cautious knowing that missile launches could happen.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower closes the U.S. embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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a U-2 flight piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia
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The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961 demolished: November 9, 1989
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet union
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On October 22, 1962, after reviewing newly acquired intelligence, President John F. Kennedy informed the world that the Soviet Union was building secret missile bases in Cuba, a mere 90 miles off the shores of Florida, JFK made a cuban blockaid as a result
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Soviets to invade the country on the night of Dec. 24, 1979, sending in some 30,000 troops and toppling the short-lived presidency of People’s leader Hafizullah Amin.
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elected in 1985 then lost power in 1991 when it fell
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The treaty is formally titled 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.
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This represented the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Once the wall was broken, people from East Germany were celbrating because they were finally free.
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west's result of victory of freedom
