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Yalta Conference- 1945

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:27:29 UTC

An meeting of the heads of government of the United States (Roosevelt) the United Kingdom (Churchill) and the Soviet Union (Stalin) to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

Iron Curtain - 1946

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:37:25 UTC

Churchill's famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War

UN Formed 1945

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:38:58 UTC

An international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations

Truman Doctrine - 1947

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:40:40 UTC

Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for money in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.

Marshall Plan - 1948

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:41:59 UTC

The plan that help United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe

Berlin Airlift - 1948

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:44:01 UTC

U.S.S.R blockaded railroads, food and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The U.S and Britain responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.

NATO Formed - 1949

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:47:34 UTC

created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union ( First peacetime military alliance)

China Revolution - 1949

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:48:44 UTC

In 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China

Arms Race - 1949

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:49:32 UTC

U.S.S.R. successfully tested its first atomic bomb. The world was shocked.

Korean War - 1950

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:51:57 UTC

War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. It began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased after an armistice

Policies-Massive Nuclear Retaliation/Brinkmanship - 1954

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:56:56 UTC

“massive retaliation” doctrine under Eisenhower aimed to deter communism by Page 10 10 threatening a devastating nuclear response to any aggression. This relied on US nuclear supremacy and brinkmanship

Warsaw Pact Formed - 1955

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 14:57:53 UTC

Co-operation and Mutual Assistance, the Warsaw Pact was created on 14 May 1955, immediately after the accession of West Germany to the Alliance. ( An respond to NATO)

Berlin Wall Built - 1961

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:04:45 UTC

Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany

Bay of Pigs - 1961

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:05:27 UTC

an invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front

Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:07:44 UTC

13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, when American sent nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Kennedy Assassination - 1963

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:10:36 UTC

mortal shooting in the United States in Dallas, Texas and John F. Kennedy was shot and killed

Vietnam War - 1965 -1973

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:13:07 UTC

Was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and it was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War.

Vietnamization - 1975

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:33:32 UTC

was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops"

Cease Fire - 1953

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:43:12 UTC

ending the fighting in Korea. The U.S. Air Force emerged from the Korean War as a proven force, ready to face future Cold War challenges.

South Vietnam Becomes Communist- 1975

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:45:21 UTC

Communist forces overran Saigon on 30 April 1975, marking the end of the Republic of Vietnam.

U.S.S.R restructured economy away from communism- 1986

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:51:09 UTC

at the end of the USSR's existence. There was decreasing pre-publication and pre-broadcast censorship and greater freedom of information.

"Tear Down This Wall" - 1987

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:52:14 UTC

Berlin Wall Speech was delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin in 1987

Berlin Wall Comes Down - 1989

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:53:46 UTC

During the Peaceful Revolution, marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe

Independence Movements in Soviet Bloc Countries - 1991

nicoles48 — 2024-05-06 16:58:11 UTC

Seven new countries which had declared their independence from the Soviet Union in the course of the year, while the Baltic states regained their independence in 1991