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Mele
Feb. 4 1945
In 1954, the Allies had a victory in Europe. Roosevelt went to the Black Sea resort city of Yalta in the Soviet Union to meet with Churchill and Stalin. The three had toasted to the defeat of Germany. After the small victory, they had discussed the fate of Germany and the postwar world. This had went on for 80 days. Roosevelt hoped that the Soviet Union would stand by to their commitments and join them in the war against Japan which was still happening in the Pacific. Secondly, Roosevelt wanted Stalin's support for a new World Peace keeping organization.
The Yalta conference produced a series of comprises: Pacifying Stalin, Roosevelt convinced Churchill to agree to a temporary division of Germany into 4 nations, one for the Americans, the British, the Soviets, and the French.

In the Yalta Conference, the Allies and Stalin had agreed to split Germany. The Allies took the Western region of Germany while Stalin took the Eastern side. Stalin had also promised free election to Germany, but ended up breaking the promise. His approach towards Germany was also very harsh since he wanted to divide German's occupation zone, so that Germany wouldn't threaten the Soviet Union anymore. With Stalin's approach, Churchill had to strongly disagree with it while Roosevelt tried his best to change his mind and get him in a peacemaking program. With this, USSR has was a bit more responsible than the US.

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Anna-Sophie
Aug. 6 1945
On August 6, the US dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima and Fat Man on Nagasaki. This killed 200,000 people and leveled out the cities. Thus getting Japan to surrender and bringing a close to the war.

The Soviet and other US allies didn't know the US had an atomic bomb. This made the Soviet angry and distrust the US for being secretive. The Soviet then began creating their own atomic weapons to try and look as powerful as the US. Eventually this started the Cold War because both countries were threatening each other with atomic war. The fact that the US kept it a secret and dropping the bomb holds them responsible for angering the Soviet and having them create their own bombs, essentially starting the Cold War.

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Mele
1947
Truman stated that, "it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
Truman asked the Congress for $400 million in economic and military aid for Greece. The Congress had agreed with his statement and decided to give Greece and Turkey $400 million in aid in 1947 and 1950, now reducing the danger of communist taking over those nations.

The US, or Truman, had taken action for asking the Congress for $400 million to give as aid for Greece and Turkey. The congress had soon agreed with him and started to give Greece and Turkey $400 million. So, the US was more in action than the USSR, who wanted to take over those nations for themselves which were less likely to happen.

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Mele
June 3 1948
Marshall Plan was a plan from the United States to provide aid to all European nations that needed it. This had revived the hopes of the Europeans because in the next 4 years from 1947, 16 countries  had received $13 billion for aid. Western Europe was thriving while the Communist party lost a lot of their appeal to voters.

The US had the idea of making what they call the Marshall Plan, which was to provide the Europeans $13 billion in aid. With this, the US had taken even more action to help the needy while the USSR isn't doing anything at all except for looking for war or taking over some other nation/country.

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Anna-Sophie
Oct. 1949
The Chinese Communists wanted control of China but the US was trying hard to stop the spread of Communism. The Nationalists heavily relied on the US while the Communists relied on the Soviet. Eventually, the Communists gained wide spread support in China and eventually a majority of China was under communist control.

The conflict in China was manipulated by both the US and Soviet. Each backed and supported a side and hoped that their side would win. Again, this is a Soviet vs US conflict. Whoever would win this would be more powerful. This was mostly started by the Soviet and their idea of communism. Without the Soviet wanting to spread communism, then most likely this revolution within China wouldn't have happened.

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Anna-Sophie
June 25 1950
In 1948, after WWII, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) was occupied by the United States. By this time the US had pulled out most of their troops, leaving only 500 in South Korea. The communists formed the the Democratic Republic of Korea, (North Korea). The USSR was ready to back North Korea with military supplies and money. In 1950 North Korea makes a surprise attack on South Korea and make quick advances into South Korea. South Korea asked for aid from the US. A vote went through the UN and 16 nations sent 520,000 troops to aid South Korea.

This was mostly caused by the USSR. They supported North Korea from the very start with military troops and money. The US only got involved when South Korea needed aid. They were still a part of the war, but they didn't help start the war.  Once you enter a war, you are responsible for that war no matter when you enter.

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Mele
Nov. 1 1955
The French had started a war with Vietnam just to re-colonize them. The U.S had agreed to help them out, but to stop communism. The U.S. helped the French by providing a massive economic and military support. They had sent $15 million to France as an economic aid and kept on aiding them with supplies and money. They, the U.S, had soon forced alliance with Ho Chi Minh and supplied them with aid to resist the Japanese.
After the War, the communists had won the war, so the communists kept both sides of Vietnam. Both North and South.

The U.S. was mostly involved in this Vietnam war, since they have helped the French in aid to defeat and get rid of the Communists. They had helped aiding the French while trying to force Ho Chi Minh for alliance, also helping his country in aid. That's what the U.S. had mainly done through out the war, helping the French and Vietnam in aid.

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Anna-Sophie
1957-1969
In 1961 Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space. The US wanted to reach the moon before the Soviet did, thus the space race began. On July, 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon.

Both The Soviet and US wanted to reach the moon first this created great tension between the two countries. The one who would reach the moon first would be the greater country. Each wanted to surpass each other. This was 50% for both because both countries were equally involved, one reaching the moon before the other would cause problems.

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Mele
Apr. 17 1961
1,300 to 1,500 Cuban exiles were supported by the U.S. military at the southern coast at Bahia de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. There was an air strike that had failed when they wanted to knock out the Cuban air forces, but the CIA said that it succeeded. A small group had then went to go distract Castro's forces but they never reached him, so when the main commando unit landed, they had to face 25,00 Cuban troops which were backed up by Soviet tanks and jet aircrafts. Leaving some of the troops invading exiles killed while others were imprisoned.

It's mostly the U.S.'s fault, since they wanted to trained by the U.S. military to take over Cuba, but then again the USSR was with Cuba, helping them defend their country.

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Anna-Sophie
Aug. 13 1961
In 1961 German was still in turmoil, 20% of East Germans had fled to West Germany to get away from Communist rule. This weakened to country's economy. Khrushchev wanted to build a wall to prevent people from leaving. This caused the Berlin crisis and added tension in the Cold War.

The USSR was responsible for this because they wanted the wall and created it. They made it because they were afraid of a failing economy withing West Berlin. It became a symbol of Communist rule and oppression. This further caused tension between US and USSR because the US didn't want the wall.

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Mele
Oct. 16 1962
Castro was friends with the Soviet, who promised to protect Cuba with soviet arms. They provided Cuba with Soviet weapons, including nuclear weapons. Kennedy warned Cuba that the U.S would not tolerate any offensive nuclear weapons. In Oct. 14, the U.S planes had taken pictures that showed missile basses in Cuba that contained missiles that were ready to laugh. This missiles could read the U.S. cities in minutes.
The U.S. took off the Turkey and Cuban

The U.S. had found out that Soviet Unions had missiles pointing straight at the U.S., ready to launch right at them. So, the U.S. decided to take action and fight the Soviet Union to try and stop them from launching the missiles. This was mostly started by the Soviet Union, since they wanted to start a bombing on the U.S. first without a warning.

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Anna-Sophie
Nov. 9 1989
In October 1989, East Germans rejected their Communist government and eventually took down the wall. In 1990 the first free elections were held and the two German nations were united. Eventually other European nations followed leaving behind their communist governments.

Communism began to fall all over the world and the Soviet Union began to decline. This gave way for nations to get out of communism and change their government. With communism falling throughout the world eventually in 1992, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin came together to end the Cold War.

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