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Arms race
A rapid increase in the quantity/quality of military power and weapons. The first modern arms race took place when France and Russia challenged the naval superiority of Britain in the late nineteenth century. The buildup of arms was also a characteristic of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, though the development of nuclear weapons changed the stakes for the par -
Yalta Conference
The second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
Marshall Plan
Also known as the european recovery program, channeled over $13 billion to help finance the economic recover of Europe. The plan promoted European economic integration and federalism, and created a mixture of public organization of the private economy similar to that in the domestic economy of the United States. -
The Berlin Blockade
One of the first international crises of the cold war, The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin, the German capital city, was located deep in the Soviet zone, but it was also divided into four sections. The Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. This made it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or supplies. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, however, the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. -
Korean War
The Korean war started from 75,000 soliders from North Korea croosed the 38th parallel. the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Isoeb Dzhugashvili, the original name of Joseph Stalin. Died of a heart attack on March 5th, 1953. He is remembered always as the man who helped save his nation from Nazi Domination. But known as a mass murderer of his century, overseen the deaths of 8 million to 20 million of his own people. His death causing a great relief over the world. -
Vietnam War
A long divisive conflict, the two people fighting was communist government of North Vietnam against the south Vietnam with the US as it's ally. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Space race
After World War II drew to a close in the mid-20th century, a new conflict began. Known as the Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers–the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other. Space would become a dramatic arena for this competition. -
U-2 Incident
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Confronted with the evidence of his nation’s espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
A young Cuban nationalist drove his guerilla army into Havana and overhrew General Fulgencio Batistia, For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power.the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: Which failed and they surrendered. -
Berlin wall
They began building the Berlin wall to permanently close off the west. Berlin, the German capital was divided into sectors. Located deep within the soviet zone. The wall built to try to force the west to abandon the city. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the Cuban Missile Crisis, when leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. The U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat. Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. It was narrowly avoided by a trade. -
JFK Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved. As it was passing, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States.Johnson therefore called for strategic arms limitations talks (SALT), he and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin met in New Jersey. Johnson said they must gain “control of the ABM race,” and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara argued that the more each reacted to the other’s escalation, the more they had chosen “an insane road to follow.” -
Chernobyl Disaster
Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine was the product of a flawed Soviet reactor design coupled with serious mistakes made by the plant operators. It was a direct consequence of Cold War isolation and the resulting lack of any safety culture. The accident destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and several further deaths later. One person was killed immediately and a second died in hospital soon after as a result of injuries received. -
INF Treaty
The Treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the elimination of their INF (Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces).
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Tiananmen Square
Anti Communist protests in Tiananmen Square are found and Chinese troops start storming through Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States. -
Reunification of Germany
The sudden downfall of the German Democratic Republic, caused by the fleeting of other communist regimes in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe.
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The Cold War ends
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. A dedicated reformer, Gorbachev introduced the policies of openness. Ukraine, BYELORUSSIA, and RUSSIA itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved. Gorbachev was a president without a country. Americans were pleasantly shocked, no serious discourse.
