The Cold War
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YALTA CONFERENCE (FEB. 1945)
SEVERAL EVENTS LEAD UP TO THE US AND SU DISLIKING ONE ANOTHER
US DROPS THE BOMBS ON JAPAN (AUG. 1945)
TRYING TO SHOW POWER, IT OFFENDED RUSSIA THAT THEY DIDNT HAVE THAT ABILITY
POSTDAM CONFERENCE (AUG. 1945)
TRUMAN, STALIN AND BRITAIN SPLIT UP EUROPE (DEMOCRACY VS COMMUNISM)
COMMUNISM IN ALBANIA (JAN. 1946)
FIRST EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNIST GOV. IN ALBANIA
POLAND (JAN. 1947)
COMMUNIST POWER TAKES OVER POLAND
TRUMAN DOCTRINE (MARCH 1947)
ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE FOR GREECE AND TURKEY (WE COULD AFFORD IT)
NATO IS CREATED (APRIL 1949)
INTERGOVERNMENTAL MILITARY ALLIANCE (SOVIET UNION NOT INCLUDED)
RUSSIA'S ATOMIC POWER (AUG. 1949)
THE SOVIET UNION EXPLODED ITS FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON
CHINA (OCT. 1949)
COMMUNISTS WIN THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR
KOREA (JUNE 1950)
UNITED NATIONS AND THE US FIGHT NORTH KOREAN FORCES
IRAN (AUG. 1953)
IRANIAN GOV. OVERTHROWN BY U.S. CIA COUP
SEATO IS CREATED (SEPT. 1954)
SOUTHEAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION - PREVENT COMMUNSIM IN TERRITORIES
WARSAW PACT (MAY 1955)
COLLECTIVE DEFENSE TREATY AMONG EIGHT COMMUNIST STATES IN EUROPE
EISENHOWER AND KHRUSHCHEV (JULY 1955)
FIRST SUMMIT MEETING BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND PREMIER
HUNGARY (NOV. 1956)
HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION DESTORYED BY RED ARMY
SPUTNIK (OCT. 1957)
RUSSIANS LAUNCH FIRST SATELLITE INTO SPACE
CUBA (FEB. 1959)
COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT INSTALLED INTO CUBA, LED BY FIDEL CASTRO
BAY OF PIGS (APR. 1961)
FAILED ATTEMPT BY THE CIA TO INVADE CUBA AFTER CASTRO STEPPED INTO POWER
IRON CURTAIN (AUG. 1961)
BERLIN WALL IS BUILDT, SEPERATING EAST AND WEST GERMANY
COMMUNIST ISSUES (JUNE 1962)
SINO-SOVIET CONFLICT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND CHINA'S COMMUNIST VIEWS
CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS (OCT. 1962)
SOVIETS HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONRY IN CUBA, POINTED TOWARDS THE US
CHINA (OCT. 1964)
CHINA SETS OFF ITS FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
DOMINICAN REPUBLICAN (APR. 1965)
US TROOPS ARE SENT TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DURING ITS CIVIL WAR
VIETNAM (AUG. 1965)
US TROOPS ARE SENT TO SOUTH VIETNAM TO FIGHT THE NVA
CZECH REPUBLIC (AUG. 1968)
CZECH UPRISING BROUGHT TO AN END BY RED ARMY
NIXON GOES TO CHINA (FEB. 1972)
PRESIDENT NIXON FLEW OVER TO CHINA TO SHAKE CHOU EN-LAI'S HAND
CHILE (SEPT. 1973)
CHILEAN GOVERNMENT IS ASSISTED BY US COUP IN AN OVERTHROW
END OF VIETNAM WAR (APR. 1975)
SOUTH VIETNAM IS TAKEN OVER BY THE NVA, US TROOPS EVACUATED
ANGOLA (FEB. 1976)
CUBA AND THE SOVIET UNION HELP TO ESTABLISH COMMUNIST GOV. IN ANGOLA
FRIENDLY CHINA (JAN. 1979)
CHINESE GOV. AND THE US CREATE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
AFGHANISTAN (DEC. 1979)
RED ARMY INVADES TO SHORE UP THE NEWLY-ESTABLISHED PRO-SOVIET REGIME IN KABUL
POLAND (AUG. 1980)
WORKERS STRIKE, SOLIDARITY UNION IS CREATED TO ESTABLISH INDEPENDENT POLITICAL SPACE
GRENADA (DEC. 1983)
PRESIDENT REGAN SENT IN TROOPS TO END THE NATION’S MARXIST REGIME, GOV. IS CHANGED
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV (MAR. 1985)
NEW LEADER OF SOVIET UNION DECLARES RECONSTRUCTION AND REFORM OF GOV.
CHINA (MAY 1989)
CITIZENS BEGIN A DEMAND FOR GOVERNMENT REFORM AFTER TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE
POLAND (SEPT. 1989)
SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT CREATES NON-COMMUNISTIC GOV. IN POLAND!
HUNGARY (OCT. 1989)
GOVERNMENT DECLARES THEMSELVES UN-COMMUNISTIC
GERMANY (NOV. 1989)
EAST AND WEST GERMANY ARE REUNIFIED, UNRESTRICTED
IRON CURTAIN OPENED (DEC. 1989)
BERLIN WALL BEGINS TO BE DEMOLISHED
BUSH AND GORBACHEV (MAY 1990)
BOTH LEADERS AGREE TO REUNITE GERMANY
COMMUNISTS? (AUG. 1991)
DIE-HARD COMMUNISTS PROTEST IN COUPS AGAINST MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, UNSUCCESSFULLY
BORIS YELTSIN (DEC. 1991)
FIRST PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA ATFER THE SOVIET UNION IS ABOLISHED
