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Joseph Stalin
full name : Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
was a Soviet revolutionary
and politician of Georgian nationality. Governing the Soviet Union
from the mid-1920s
until his death in 1953,
he served as General SecretaryJoseph Stalin
a Soviet revolutionary and
politician of Georgian nationality.
Governing the Soviet Union from
the mid-1920s until his death in
1953, he served as General Secretary
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953.Death of Joseph Stalin
Just how many millions of
deaths Joseph Stalin was
responsible for is disputed,
but that the figure runs into
millions is not in doubt. To the
end, when he was in his seventies
and approaching his own deathLeonid Brezhnez
a Soviet politician
who led the Soviet Union
from 1964 to 1982 as the
General Secretary of the
Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, presiding
over the country until
his death and funeral in 1982.Death of Leonid Brezhnez
On 10 November 1982,
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev,
the third General Secretary
of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union (CPSU) and
the fifth leader of the Soviet
Union, died aged 75 after
suffering a heart attack
following years of serious ailments.Ronald Reagan becomes President of U.S.A
an American politician
and actor who served
as the 40th President of the
United States from 1981 to 1989.
Prior to the presidency, he was
a Hollywood actor and
union leader before
serving as the 33rd Governor of
California from 1967 to 1975.Ronald Reagan leaves
presidency
Ronald Wilson
Reagan was an American
politician and actor who
served as the 40th
President of the United
States from 1981 to 1989John F Kennedy becomes
president of U.S.A
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963),
commonly referred to by his initials JFK,
was an American politician who served
as the 35th President of the United States
from January 1961 until his
assassination in November 1963.
Kennedy served at the
height of the Cold WarJohn F Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
John F. Kennedy, the 35th
President of the United States,
was assassinated on Friday,
November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m.
in Dallas, Texas while riding
in a presidential motorcade
in Dealey Plaza.Harry S Truman becomes
president of U.S.A
Harry S. Truman was
an American statesman
who served as the 33rd
President of the United States,
taking the office upon the death
of Franklin D. RooseveltHarry S Truman leaves presidency
died on December 26, 1972,
and is buried next to Bess
in the courtyard of the
Truman Library.Nikita Khrushchev takes power in Soviet Union
a Soviet statesman who led the
Soviet Union during part of the
Cold War as the First Secretary
of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
and as Chairman of the Council
of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958
to 1964.Nikita Khrushchev goes out of power in the Soviet Union
he did not suffer the deadly
fate of previous Soviet power
struggles, and was pensioned
off with an apartment in Moscow
and a dacha in the countryside.
His lengthy memoirs were smuggled
to the West and published
in part in 1970. Khrushchev
died in 1971 of
a heart attack.Mikhail Gorbachev
a Russian and former
Soviet politician. He was
the eighth and last leader
of the Soviet Union, having
been General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Sovie
t Union from 1985 until 1991Mikhali Gorbache leaves power
in Soviet Union
a Russian and former Soviet
politician. He was the eighth
and last leader of the Soviet Union
, having been General
Secretary of the Communist
Party of the Soviet
Union from 1985 until 1991.Jimmy Carter becomes president of U.S.A
an American politician
who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
He previously was the 76th
Governor of Georgia from
1971 to 1975,
after two terms in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967Jimmy Carter ends power as
leader of the U.S.A
The end of his presidential
tenure was marked by the
1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island
nuclear accident, and the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated
the Cold War, imposing a grain
embargo against the Soviets,
enunciating the Carter doctrine,
and leading an international
boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.Gerald Ford becomes President of U.SA
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr
was an American politician
who served as the 38th
President of the United States
from August 1974 to January
1977. Before his accession to
the presidency, he served as
the 40th Vice President of
the United States from
December 1973 to August 1974Gerald Ford resignes presidency of the U.S.A
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14,
1913 – December 26, 2006) was
an American politician who served
as the 38th President of the United
States from August 1974 to January 1977.Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
often referred to by his initials
FDR, was an American statesman
and political leader who served as
the 32nd President of the United States
from 1933 until his death in 1945.Franklin Delano
Dies in office
Quotes he said before he died:
"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Richard Nixon becomes president of the U.S.A
an American politician
who served as the 37th
President of the United
States, serving from 1969
until 1974, when he resigned
from office, the only
U.S. president
to do soRichard Nixon presidency ends
By late 1973, the Watergate
scandal escalated, costing
Nixon much of his political
support. On August 9, 1974
, he resigned in the face of
almost certain impeachment
and removal from office.
After his resignation,
he was issued a controversial pardon by
his successor, Gerald Ford.Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes president of U.S.A
an American army
general and statesman
who served as the 34th
President of the United
States from 1953 to 1961.Lyndon Johnson becomes
president of U.S due to
assassination , he is often
referred to by his initials
LBJ, was an American politician
who served as the 36th President
of the United States
from 1963 to 1969,
assuming the office after
having servedDwight D, Eisenhower dies
Near the end of his term,
his efforts to set up a summit
meeting with the Soviets collapsed
when a U.S. spy plane was shot
down over Russia. He approved
the Bay of Pigs invasion, which
was left to his successor to carry out.Lyndon Johnson dies
Nixon was elected to
succeed him, as the
New Deal coalition that
had dominated presidential
politics for 36 years collapsed.
After he left office in January
1969, Johnson returned
to his Texas ranch,
where he died of a heart
attack at age 64 on
January 22, 1973.!Forming of the UN!
The Formation of the
United Nations, 1945.
On January 1, 1942,
representatives of 26
nations at war with the
Axis powers met in Washington
to sign the Declaration of the
United Nations endorsing the
Atlantic Charter , pledging to
use their full resources against
the Axis and agreeing not to
make a separate peace.Truman Doc-train
The United States was
asked to help congress
approve Truman request
for aid in Grecce the
following lead to the
Truman Doc-trainThe Berlin Blockage was
one of the first major
international crises of
the Cold War. During
the multinational occupation
of post–World War II Germany,
the Soviet Union blocked the
Western AlliesSoviets first atomic bomb exploded
-The Soviets started
experimenting with
nuclear technology in
1943, and first tested
a nuclear weapon in
August 1949. Many of
the fission based devices
left behind radioactive
isotopes which have
contaminated air, water
and soil in the areas
immediately surroundingSpunik
History changed on October 4,
1957, when the Soviet Union
successfully launched Sputnik I.
The world's first artificial satellite
was about the size of a beach ballFidel Castro takes over Cuba
The Cuban communist
revolutionary and politician
Fidel Castro took part in the
Cuban Revolution from 1953
to 1959. ... In July 1953, they
launched a failed attack on
the Moncada Barracks, during
which many militants were killed
and Castro was arrested.U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred
during the Cold War on
1 May 1960, during the
presidency of Dwight D.
Eisenhower and the
premiership of Nikita
Khrushchev, when a
United States U-2 spy
plane was shot down
while in Soviet airspaceCold War Ends
The Cold War was a state
of geopolitical tension after
World War II between
powers in the Eastern
Bloc and powers in the
Western BlocGorbachev ends economic
aid to soviet satellites.
Gorbachev ends economic
aid to Soviet satellite. Soviet
satellite states refers to
Communist satellite states
of the Soviet Union, in the
Eastern block.The soviet
satellite lost all the funding,
along with the support needed
to get through the fall of the soviet union.intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe are removed
Jump to Restarted
negotiations: 1985–87 -
British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher played
a key role in brokering the
negotiations between Reagan
and Gorbachev in 1986-87.
In March 1986 ... Both agreed
in principle to remove
INF systems from Europe
and to equal global limits of
100 INF missile warheads.signed treaty removing all medium and short range missiles
The Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) is the abbreviated name of the Treaty
Between the United States of
America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination
of Their Intermediate-Range
and Shorter-Range Missiles,
a 1987 agreement between
the United States and the Soviet Union.Soviet troops
withdraw from Afganistan
The final and
complete
withdrawal of Soviet
combatant forces from
Afghanistan began on 15
May 1988 and ended on
15 February 1989
under the leadership of
Colonel-General Boris
Gromov. ... The military
withdrawal commenced
soon after, with all Soviet
forces leaving Afghanistan
by 15 February 1989.China puts down protests for democracy
A day after Chinese military
killed at least hundreds
, if not thousands of
demonstrators in Beijing in 1989,Communist governments fall in Czechoslovakia,Bulgaria and Romania.
The Revolutions of 1989
formed part of a revolutionary
wave in the late 1980s and
early 1990s that resulted in
the end of communist
rule in Central and
Eastern Europe and beyond.Germany Reunited
The German reunification
was the process in 1990 i
n which the German
Democratic Republic
became part of the Federal
Republic of Germany to
form the reunited
nation of GermanyWarsaw Pact Ends
On 1 July 1991, in Prague
, the Czechoslovak
President Václav Havel
formally ended the
1955 Warsaw Treaty
Organization of Friendship,
Cooperation and Mutual
Assistance and so disestablished
the Warsaw Treaty after
36 years of military alliance
with the USSR.Yalta Conference
also known as the Crimea
Conference and code
named the Argonaut Conference,
held from 4 to 11 February, 1945,
was the World War II meeting of the
heads of government of the
United States, the
United Kingdom and the
Soviet Union for the
purpose of discussing GermanyPostdam Conference-
the Potsdam Conference
(July 17-August 2, 1945) was
the last of the World War II
meetings held by the
“Big Three” heads of state.
Featuring American President
Harry S. Truman, British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill
(and his successor,
Clement Attlee) and
Soviet Premier Joseph StalinCuban Missiles Crisis
also known as the October
Crisis of 1962 the Caribbean
Crisis or the Missile Scare,
was a 13-day confrontation
between the United States
and the Soviet Union
concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and TurkeySALT treaty
Nixon and Soviet General
Secretary Leonid Brezhnev
signed the ABM Treaty and
interim SALT agreement on
May 26, 1972, in Moscow.
For the first time during
the Cold War, the United
States and Soviet Union had
agreed to limit the number
of nuclear missiles in their
arsenals.U.S troops out of Vietnam
Ending of American
involvement in the
Vietnam War, the last
US troops left Vietnam
on March 29th. Also,
Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian
president was declared an enemy
by Israel.
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