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The Yalta conference happened in Febuary 1945. It happened between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.They discussed the future of Germany and Europe after the war, the Soviets involvement against Japan, and the starting of the United Nations.The Potsdam conference happened in July 17th to august 2nd 1945. The conference was attended by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were all in the meeting but Churchill was replaced by Clement Attlee because of the British elections. In the meeting they planned to disarm and demilitarize Germany. The impact of these events is that it had demilitarized Germany and started tension between Russia and the US.

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The Iron Curtain speech happened on March 5, 1946. Winston Church Hill had given the speech at Westminster College in Fulton. In this speech he warned the world about the communists trying to expand even more and force the world into communism. The importance of the speech is that it really shows the very start of the Cold War and the hate for the communists in America.

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The Truman Doctrine started on March 12, 1947. This Doctrine was pledging finical and political support to the nations that were at threat to be taken over by the communists. This is impactful because this is America fighting against the communists without actually going into war.

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Berlin Blockade and Airlift happned from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949. The Soviet Union had blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under the US's control. So the Us had to fly in supplies to help support Berlin. The impact of this is that Russia is showing the US that they are not friendly at all. They don't want them near the Union at all and they want all of Berlin.This heavily ruined Soviet and Russian relations also.

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The Warsaw Pact was created on 14 May 1955. Nato was formed on April 4, 1949. The Warsaw Pact consisted of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Nato consisted of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The impact of this was that most of the countries were teaming up against the communists. They did not like the communists and were afraid of them taking over.

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The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The North Koreans had invaded South Korea. The North Koreans had been backed by the Soviets. this caused America to back South Korea. This was the Soviet Union and Americas way of fighting each other without really fighting each other. The war ended up causing deaths of 3 million people. The war had ended in a stalemate between the two nations and they drew a border which the countries still have to this day.This war is impactful because it shows wha tis to come. the Soviets and Americas having a bunch of proxy wars.

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Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to ever be sent into space. The Soviet Union had launched it on the 4th of October 1957. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its batteries died. The impact of this was that it caused the space race. Both of the countries started scrambling to see who can be the first to send a man into space and on the moon.

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The Berlin wall was a huge wall that covered all of western Berlin. It lasted from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. The Wall was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin. The communists couldn't handle people trying to leave for a life out of communism so they decided to trap them in. The impact of this was that it separated east Berlin and the communist world from the rest of the world. While the communist people had very different lives they weren't able to experience the western life as the Soviet government feared they would like it so much to stay over there. They oppressed their own people for their gain.

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion happened on April 17, 1961. The goal of this invasion was to the overthrow Fidel Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government. The US had sent 1,400 Cuban exiles fighting on their side but they were no match for Fidel Castro and his men. The impact of this was very immense. It caused the Soviets to come into contact with Cuba and send them missiles starting the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred from October 16, 1962 to October 29, 1962. It all started when a U.S plane had flown over Cuba and taken spy shots of what looked to be missile silos. This sent the government into a panic. The cubans could nuke most American big cities in a matter of minutes because they were so close. The U.S imminently started a quarantine on ships entering Cuba. They all got searched for military weapons and materials to build the Missiles. The missiles were given to the Cubans by the soviets. The two contries had worked it out after the large scare. The missiles were dismantled and the U.S. promised not to invade Cuba and to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.

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The Vietnam war happened from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. The war had started because North Vietnam the country under Communism but South Vietnam fought to keep this from happening they liked it how it was. The North Vietnam was backed by the other soviet countries and the South Vietnam was backed the the Capitalist countries. The war was very gruesome and had over 1,353,000 deaths. The North Vietnam had a very unique fighting style and the Southern Parts were not ready for it. The Northern Part of Vietnam eventually won the war and made the whole country communist. This is impactful because it was the first real soviet win against the Americans. They had started to spread communism way more rapidly and was even beating the capitalists in war.

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall happened on November 9, 1989. The wall was demolished and allowed the eastern people to travel to the western side. Germany was unified once more. This is extremely impactful because it marked the end of the iron curtain and the Cold War.