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Communist takeover in Poland, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia
the countrys that won the war took over courtys that were heavly damaged during world war 2. Russia got poland, Bulgaria Czechoslovakia. -
potsdam conferance
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 16 to August 2, 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The three nations were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill[2] and later, Clement Attlee,[3] and President Harry S. Truman. -
Berlin Blockade
the belin blokade happened when the USSR blocked the allies railways. the rail ways were to get supplys to west berlin. they solved that problem by then flying the supplys over. -
NATO
nato was a treaty that had the countrys that singed it have an allince. -
Korean War
The Korean War was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. Following the surrender of the Empire of Japan in September 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th parallel, with U.S. military forces occupying the southern half and Soviet military forces occupy the northen half. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Eastern Europe. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
it was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962 -
Vietnam War
This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
an announcement made by East German government official Günter Schabowski stated, "Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR (East Germany) into the FRG (West Germany) or West Berlin. -
Disintegration of the USSR
This left all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union as independent sovereign states. The dissolution of the world's largest communist state also marked an end to the Cold War.
