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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was were Stalin, Rossevelt, and Churchill met up to discuse post WWII. They decided to split Germany into four seperate zones. This is conference was the starting point of the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain is a fence that seperated Europe. On the east side of the fence were all of the countries that were connected to the Soviet Union. The fence went for Stettin all the way to Trieste. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the United States was helping rebuild Europe after WWII. They did this to stop the spread of communism throughout Europe. They rebuilt Europe were war \had been and helped get the economy back to normal. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet set up a blockade so that the people of Berlin would starve and have to have help from them, so they could control the city. The USA, Britian, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa all flew over Berlin dropping supplies down to the people. It was called the Berlin Airlift they flew almost day and night to supply everyone. -
NATO
NATO The NATO is a milatry alliance called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. They consist of 28 counties between North America and Europe. They join together and fight any external forces. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw was all of the communsit counties joined together. It was formed to counter the NATO joining. Soviet also used it to keep control over Central and Eastern Europe. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam was a war between USSR and USA over resources. USA was with South Vietnam and the USSR was with North Vietnam. USA was helping because they thought that is USSR won they would turn other countrie comunist. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first artificail satelite to orbit the Earth. It couldn't do anything to America but that wasn't what they were afraid of. They were afraid that it could orbit around the Earth. -
The U-2 Incident
U-2 Incident The USSR shot down an American spy plane and captured the piolet. President Esienhower was sentenced to 10 years of jail for espinage. He was released two years later because of a "spy-swap" between the USSR and USA. They swapped Esienhower for a Russian spy. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was an invasion on Cuba after Castro took over. The plan fail terribly with then surrendering in less than 24 hours. The USA said they had no part in it but they trained 1400 Cuban refuges to fight. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The goverment of Germany built the Berlin Wall to seperate East Berlin from West Berlin. They didn't want people from West Berlin to mix with the people from East Berlin. It stood there seperating the communist side or the East side of Berlin with the noncommunist side or West Berlin. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban MIssle Crisis was the highest point of actual war between the two power houses. It would have been an all out nuclear war between USSR and the USA. The only reason it didn't happen id becasue Kennedy came to an agreement with the Soviets leader. -
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
The USSR, USA, and Great Britian signed the NUclear Test-Ban Treaty. IT made it ilegal to test nuclear weapons in space, the atmosphere, and underwater. This was a big first step in controling Nuclear weapons. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Cold War was coming to a close so the comunism countrywere letting up. The Berlin Wall was taken down at midnight and the sides of the vity were joined together. 2 million people flooded the walls with hammers and picks knocking it down. -
Fall of the USSR
THe USSR broke apart after most of he countries declared there independence. They all left because of the reforms the Soviet president had made during six years. On the 26th the USSR handed over the nuclear weapons to NATO.
