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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt as World War II was winding down -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Arms Race
The Arms race unofficially started when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among countries that joined it. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a plan to get other countries away from the soviet union and on the U.S's side. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economy of postwar Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their parts of Berlin, which were in Russian occupied East Germany -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
Council of Mutual Assistane
Comecon an organization for International Economic Cooperation, the organization was established in January 1949 to coordinate the economic development of the eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG as it was known as what west Germany was called until the reunification. -
German Democratic Republic
East Germany, formally the German Democratic Republic, was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded nonCommunist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Hydrogen Bomb Invented
Once the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project. . -
Joseph Stalin's Death
After Joseph Stalin dies the USSR started in a downward spiral, new leaders replaced Stalin but none were as good. -
Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power
Nikita Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Treaty Organization aka the Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a war between North and South Vietnam. After Ho Chi Minh and his communist party took control the Vietnam War was sparked and battle began. -
Space Race
The Space race was the competition between the United States and the USSR to see who could get to space first and claim supremacy. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 Incident is an incident in which a U.S. spy plane was shot down by the U.S.S.R. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the southern coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba it is one of the most tense periods of the cold war. -
INF Treaty
The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) is the abbreviated name of 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. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
Reagan Visits the Wall
In one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. -
Mikhali Gorbachev Comes to Power
Mikhail Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
German Unification
One year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany came together on a day known as Unity Day. -
The U.S.S.R Breakup
One of the major reasons the Soviet Union fell was due to all of the radical reforms the government was putting the country through. -
Red Scare
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, if someone felt threatened by communism it became known as the red scare.
