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Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill & Stalin get totgether to discuss total surrender of Germany and post-war planning -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman meet to discuss the terms to end WW2 & agree that Russia will invade Berlin -
Division of Germany
Germany was conquered in the end of WW2 and divided by Russia, France, Britian and the U.S. -
Iran Crisis
30,000 U.S. troops left in Iran after Tehran conference while Britain & USSR removed their troops -
"Iron Curtain" Speech
Churchill gives infamous speech naming communism as the 'iron curtain' spreading across europe and asia -
Greece & Turkey
US gave $400 mil in military and economic assistance to Greece & Turkey because they couldn't directly assist them any longer -
Truman Doctrine
Foreign Policy to prevent the spread of communism, Truman said he would contain the USSR threats of communism to Greece & Turkey -
Marshall Plan
Plan to help rebuild Europe post WW2, U.S. gave $13 mil divided across 16 different coutnries -
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Berlin Blockade
Berlin had 4 reions & Stalin blocked all roads inside and around Berlin isolating it. American & British troops gave supplies by air, but Stlain stopped the blockade by 1949 -
NATO
North Atlantic Treay Organization, or NATO, was made to help protect non communist countries to avoid spread. NATO included: Belgium, Britain, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, United States, Canada, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway & Portugal -
Russias Atomic Bomb
Russia makes their first atomic bomb, faster than the U.S. had. This begins the nuclear race -
China falls to communism
USSR and China begin to get similar political views & agree to work together under communism due to China's civil war -
NSC-68
Declaring how fast & powerful the USSR was growing in power over Europe -
Korean War
U.S. first loss. Civil war between North & South Korea, -
Idea of Brinkmanship
Eisenhower presents the idea of getting so close to war or blowing the enemy up that they back up but you won't actually have to do it -
Cuban Revolution
Fidell Castro tried to overthrow the Cuban but was arrested, when released he again tried to overthrow the government with a group of followers in December 1956 -
Warsaw
soviet NATO, includes: Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia,Bulgaria & USSR -
Vietnam War
U.S. troops go to help south vietnamese fight against vietcong, under Eisenhower -
Bay of Pigs
JFK & CIA train Cuabn refugees to fight against Castro's dictator government with no US backup, it was a huge fail & most of the Cubans died before they even got 10 ft on shore. -
Berlin Wall
Barrier dividing Berlin to keep East & West Germany seperate -
Cuabn Missile Crisis
JFK recieved info on the Russian missiels placed in Cuba, which were removed in late October -
Willy Brandt
Chairman in West Berlin, after being mayor -
Nixon Doctrine
Plan to withdraw US troops from Vietnam -
Ostpolitik
normalization of East & West Germany -
Sino soviet split
The deterioration between china & the USSR between 1960-1989. This was the dterioration of their political and ideological relations -
SALT 1
Nixon & Brezhnez sign SALT 1 limiting the USSR & U.S. number of nuclear missiles -
Nicurauguan Revolution
rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front -
Soviet invade Afghan.
USSR enters Afghanistan to provoke pro communism members. US helped to train mujahdeens, later leading to Taliban taking over Afghanistan -
SALT 2
Brezhnev & Carter signed SALT 2 further militing both Nations nuclear missiles, both active and non active -
Martial Law
Martial Law puts highest ranking military officer in top government power -
Star Wars
Regans plan to develope the space race to be able to stop Russian missiels before they could get to US by a series of lasers and satellites -
Grenada
US invades Grenada due to threat of Marxist views -
Glastnost
Gorbachev(USSR) begins democratic government patterns in Russia
Means 'openess' -
Perestroika
'Reconstruction' of the political & economic standards and views set by communism into more democratic views -
Falling of Berlin Wall
East Berlin rep. announced the tightening of the relations between East & West Germany, and that people were free to cross over to either side -
Soviet coup
Anti-Gorbachev coup attempted but did not work -
Dissolution of Soviet
Declaration 142-H said that all Soviet republics were now free, leading to fall of USSR
