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Cold War
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crisis in berlin: 1
the division of Germany and of Berlin was originally meant to be temporary. Wester leaders began planning for the creation of an independant democratic German nation -
The West Resists
Soviet-Backed communist were threatening the government of greece and TUrkey. Truman used the opportunity to announce the Truman Doctrine -
Start of the Korean War
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End of Korean war
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Beggining of the Vietnam War
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President NIxon came to Office
President Nixon took office at a time of domestic turmoil over the war in Vietnam. However, Nixon was determined to remain until guarantees of South Vietnam’s security and the return of U.S. prisoners of war were secured. -
President Gerald Ford
Ford continued Nixon’s strategy of détente. The U.S. and the Soviet Union conducted a joint space mission and linked the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts. In November 1974, Ford traveled to the Soviet Union to continue negotiations on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks -
End of Vietnam War
The War ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1975 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later -
President Jimmy Carter
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter completed negotiations for nuclear arms reduction by signing the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union. However, ratification of the treaty stalled after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. Wary of Soviet interests in neighboring Iran and the Persian Gulf, President Carter began covert support of the Afghans resisting the Soviet troops, ordered a number of trade sanctions against the Soviet Union, and organized -
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan ended the period of détente. He proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, “Star Wars,” a system that would make the U.S. invulnerable to nuclear missile attacks. -
President H. W. Bush
President George H. W. Bush continued U.S. cooperation with the Soviet Union as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev continued restructuring the Soviet political and economic system. To that end, President Bush met with Gorbachev at Malta in December 1989 and the two men agreed to work closely to resolve the outstanding differences between the Soviet Union and the United States.
