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Arms Race
The Arms Race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
It was a meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt as World War II was coming to an end where they discussed Germany's unconditional surrender. -
Truman Doctrine
It stated that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from other authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
It was made so the United States had to provide economic assistance to Europe postwar. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. In it, the Soviet Union had blocked the Western Allies' railways, roads and the canal access to the Berlin under Western control. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of World War II U.S., British and Russia military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
NATO Formed
It was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and was the Collective Security Alliance where the purpose was to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. -
Korean War
The United States tried to help Korea by trying to unite the North and the South but at the end of the war, they were still seperated just like they are today. -
Joseph Stalin dies
His death played a role in the cold war because it started the cold war because of his internal affairs. -
Nakita Khrushchev Comes to Power
He led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War and pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West and instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Cuban Revolution
Fulgencio Bastista was a cuban dictator over thrown. Fidel Castro forced communists seize and was when control of Cuba, when Soviet supported government and set up in Cuba. -
KGB Formed
The Council of Mutual Assistance, COMECON, was a Soviet plan to aid in rebuilding Soviet bloc nations which created the KGB which were the Soviet Secret Police. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
It was when the military alliance of Communist Block nations joined. (Collective Security) -
Vietnam War
The United States fought in the Vietnam War while the Cold War was going on. -
Space Race
A competition between Soviet Union and United States for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
U-2 Incident
The United States was using a spy plane, called U-2, to fly over Russia and take pictures of it and was caught and shot down. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles laughed it at the south coast of Cuba because Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that over threw Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall Start
It was built around when the Cold War started and it was built to separate East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
It was when the Soviet Union put missiles in Cuba that were aimed at the United States. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
They intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its war with anticommunist Muslims. -
Military Cutbacks
It was when they withdrew missiles from Eastern Europe and withdrew Soviet troops in Afghanistan. -
Perestroika
It is restructuring and it was the gradual changing of the Soviet economy, allowing private enterprise, and dismantling of national bureaucracy. -
Glasnost
It is when the freedom of expression for Soviet citizens took place and it eased harsh treatment of opponents of Soviet system. -
INF Treaty
It was a treaty between Soviet Union and United States to eliminate the use of nuclear weapons. -
Berlin Wall End
The fall of the Berlin wall was when Germany started to take down the wall which showed the start of the ending to the Cold War -
Mikhail Gorbachev Comes to Power
He became general secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985 and launched his nation on a new course. -
German Reunification
It was the reunification of East and West Germany after the Berlin Wall was taken down. -
SALT formed
It was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and it was when they limited the number of nuclear weapons of each nation. -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
It was when the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over Kremlin and was replaced by the tricolor. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president and then left Boris Yeltsin as president of the independent Russian State. -
Cold War Officially Ends
It ends when Gorbachev and President George Bush meet declaring the end to the Cold War.
