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Cold War history of the Soviet Union | HearLore
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Cold War history of the Soviet Union
Molotov PlanVyacheslav Molotov rejected the Marshall Plan in 1947, but his economic system had been operating since 1945. The Soviet Union began bilateral trade…
KGBThe Committee for State Security emerged from the ashes of earlier Soviet security agencies on the 3rd of March 1954. Ivan Serov became its first chairman…
Washington Summit (1987)The Washington Summit of 1987 took place on the 8th of December 10 between United States president Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
Berlin Crisis of 1961By 1958, East German leader Walter Ulbricht struggled to maintain control of a state facing severe economic hardships. War reparations demanded by the Soviet…
Soviet atomic bomb projectIn April 1942, physicist Georgy Flyorov sent two classified letters to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The first letter warned that Western scientists had…
Cuban Missile CrisisIn late 1961, Fidel Castro asked for more SA-2 anti-aircraft missiles from the Soviet Union. The request was not acted upon by the Soviet leadership.
We will bury youNikita Khrushchev stood before Western ambassadors at the Polish embassy in Moscow on the 18th of November 1956. The room held envoys from twelve NATO…