The Cold War: Freez to Thaw

 

1960s

 

* NATO and Warsaw Pact

* Arms buildup

* Cuban Missile Crisis

* Vietnam War

* Breschnev Doctrine

 

 

1970s

 

* De'tnete

* Reduction of nuclear arsenals

* Aid to developing countries

* Soviet invasionof Afghanistan

* U.S. withdrawl from Vietnam

 

 

1980s

 

* Economic decline of Soviet Union

* Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika

* Berlin Wall torn down

* Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan

* Move toward democracy in Eastern Europe

 

 

1990s

 

* Collapse of Soviet Union

* German runification

* Expansion of UN peacekeeping

* Ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe

* Move toward market economy in Russia

* Economic distress in fromer Soviet Union

 

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