What are 5 major events from the cold war?

Answer 1

1945
February 4: The Yalta Conference occurs, deciding post-war status and visions of both the US and the Soviet Union.

July 24: US president Harry Truman informs Soviet Union president Joseph Stalin that the United States has nuclear weapons (Stalin is already aware, via espionage).

August 2: The Potsdam Conference ends with the Potsdam Agreement that organizes the division and reconstruction of Europe after World War II.

September 5: Igor Gouzenko, a clerk working in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada, defects and provides proof to the RCMP of a Soviet spy ring operating in Canada and other western countries. The Gouzenko affair helps change perceptions of the Soviet Union from an ally to a foe.

[edit] 1946
January 7: Republic of Austria is reconstituted, with its 1937 borders, but divided into four zones of control: American, British, French, and Soviet.

Answer 2

Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Yom Kippur War and finally

the most scary one to me occurred on November 9, 1979, when the US made emergency retaliation preparations after NORAD saw on-screen indications that a full-scale Soviet attack had been launched. No attempt was made to use the "red telephone" hotline to clarify the situation with the USSR and it was not until early-warning radar systems confirmed no such launch had taken place that NORAD realised that a computer system test had caused the display errors. A Senator at NORAD at the time described an atmosphere of absolute panic. Americans, nor the world for that matter, realized how close they came to nuclear armegeddon.

Answer 3

Khrushchev, Kennedy,Truman, Reagan, Gorbachev Korean war, Cuban Missile Berlin Wall Vietnam war Sputnik Sputnik released by technique of the Soviets in 1957 replaced right into a take-heed call for the U. S. to get more desirable math and technological know-how classes in the faculties. Truman initiated the Truman Doctrine to oppose Soviet tries to spread Communism. The Berlin wall replaced into a symbol of the Soviet take over of eastern Europe. The Cuban Missile pitted Kennedy against Khrushchev the position Cuba replaced into blockaded to save nuclear tactical warheads ninety miles from the U. S.. It replaced into in accordance to US missiles in Turkey. Reagan and Gorbachev said US-Soviet kinfolk that delivered about the precise of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the hollow of the Berlin Wall. Vietnam replaced into first war lost by technique of the U. S. because turning out to be a rustic in 1789.

Answer 4

Berlin Wall constructed - August 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

Arms-reduction talks - 1969 to 1993

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - 24 December 1979

Berlin wall demolished - November 1989

Answer 5

One was the US and Howard Hughes trying to pick up the sunken Russian nuclear submarine from the ocean floor with the Glomar Explorer...(sneaky eh?), another is probably the tearing down of the wall in Germany(what it signified).. the Cuban missile crisis should qualify...

Answer 6

Nixon's trip to China.

Answer 7

good list slikk : Cuban missile crisis

Answer 8

1) Pneumonia
2) Frostbite
3) Hypothermia
4) Snow
5) Lots and lots of ice.