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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in early February 1945 as World Was 11 was winding down. (Cited as start of Cold War) -
Truman Doctorine
The principle that the US should give support to countires or peoples threatened by Soviet forces of communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctorine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin Under Western control. -
Berlin Airlift
The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
Korean War
The Korean War started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea. -
Arms Race
A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the Soviet during Cold War. -
Joseph Staline dies
Joseph Stalin died on March 5 1953. After his death Nikita Khrushchev became first secretary of the Communist Party. In 1955, Austria regained its sovereignty and became an independent, neutral nation after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country. -
Nikita Krushchev
Khrushchev's selection was a crucial first step in rise to power in the Soviet Union- an advance that culminated in Khrushchev being named secretary of the communist Party September 1953, and premier in 1958. The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953 created a tremendous vacuum in Soviet Leadership. In the 1940's Khrushchev held a number of important positions in the Soviet government. In March 1958, Krushchev consolidated his power by taking the office of premier himself. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong. United States supported South Vietnam and Soviet Union supported North Vietnam (communist). -
Space Race
US and Soviet Union sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and by extension its political economic system. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be place into the Earth's orbit. -
U-2 incident
Occurred during the cold war when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft, flow by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro's troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. -
Berlin Wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was the military intervention Soviet Union in Afghansitan 1979-1989 on the side of the government against the numerous group of Afghan Mujahid which was politically and materially supported by the leading counties of NATO and the Islamic world. -
INF Treaty
The Treaty between the U.S and the Soviet Union on the elimination of their intermediate-Range Missile. Treaty, requires destruction of the Parties' ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with arranges of between 500 and 5,500 KM. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
After World War 11, Germany was divided into four occupation zones by four Allies of World War II, France, Great Britain, US and Soviet Union in 1945. In 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev started to open the soviet union to the west. Many communist countries followed his example. After some efforts to keep the country stable, the border was finally opened on 9 November 1989. -
German Unification
Less than one year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East and West Germany come together. Since 1945, when Soviet forces occupied eastern Germany, and the United States and other Allied forces occupied the western half on the nation at the close of World War II. Tens of thousand of East Germans began to flee the nation, and by late 1989 the Berlin Wall stated to come down. Two months later, all German election took place and Helmut Kohn became the first chancellor. -
U.S.S.R Breakup
On Christmas Day 1991, the soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in Kazah city and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.
