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Cold War Crises, Detente and the End of the Cold War
History · Chapter 14 · Section B: World History
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- Berlin Blockade, formation of NATO and division of Germany
- Cuban Missile Crisis: causes and effects
- Detente: reasons and effects on Eastern Europe
- Downfall of communism in Poland and East Germany
- Breakup of the USSR: reasons, political changes, the 1991 coup and demands for independence by Soviet republics