Cold War World History

  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech
    In the iron speech the person that was involved in it was Winston Churchill he was the most famous orations in the cold war period. He condemns the soviet union policies in Europe and declare from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent. The speech was at Fulton, Missouri. It happen because, the Eastern Europe that was more or less controlled by the soviet union.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The person that was involved was Truman. The stuff that happened was that Truman was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose that counter Soviet relations on expansion during the Cold War. How it happened in the Truman Doctrine was that he immediate the cause for the speech and was a recent announcement by the British Government that was in March it cant be long that provide military and economic assistance to the Greek Government in the civil war against the Greek Communist Party
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The country that was involved in the Berlin Airlift was Soviet blockade.The thing that happened was that the Soviet blockade of west Berlin had failed and they rejected the allies in the west. it happened in Berlin and the west Berlin. It happened because British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    The Person that was involved in the Marshall Plan was the Military Assistance. The stuff that happened is that the United States were giving out money to rebuild the western European after world war 2. The reason why they did it because Marshall spoke of an urgent need to help the European recovery in his address at Harvard University in June 1947.
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    Berlin Blockade

    In the Berlin Blockade they were involved.The stuff that happened in Berlin Blockade was they attempt the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States. The way it happened was that Stalin claimed the new currency was an attempt to wreck the East German economy.
  • NATO

    NATO
    The countries that were involved in the NATO was Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the United States. The stuff that happened was that the organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on April 4, 1949. The stuff happened at West Germany. It happened because NATO constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual response to attack any external party.
  • Communists take over China

    Communists take over China
    The Communists take over China the person that was involved was Mao Zedong. The thing that happened was that Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. When it happened it was at China. It happened because the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China.
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    Korean War

    In the Korean War the people that were involved are the South Korean, China & the soviet union. The stuff that happened is that the Korean War began in the North Korea and the communist army crossed the 38th parallel to invade the non communists. The war happened in between the North and South Korea.
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    Vietnam War

    In the Vietnam War the countries that were involved was the South Vietnam, U.S, South Korea. The stuff that happened is that more than 3 million people including over 58,000 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.It happened because North Vietnam dramatically increased in military assistance to the Cong which then began attacking South Vietnamese military units.
  • Revolt in Hungary

    Revolt in Hungary
    The person that was involved in the Revolt in Hungary was Nikita Khrushchev. The things that happen is that thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. The reason why it happened was that thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter million Hungarians run away the country.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    The country that was involved in Sputnik was the Soviet Union. The stuff that happened is that the signals continued for 21 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on October 26, 1957. It happened in the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth and was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan then part of the former Soviet Union. Why they did because the successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States
  • Great Leap Forward

    Great Leap Forward
    The person that was involved in Great Leap Forward was Mao Zedong.The things that happened was that the successful economic reconstruction that had taken place in the early 1950 under the first five year plan the Party leadership headed by Mao considered the conditions ripe for a Great Leap Forward in early 1958. It happened because, the Great Leap Forward was intended to modernize the Chinese economy to follow the communist revolution.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    In the Cuban Missile Crisis the people that were in involved were the two countries between the Soviet union and the United States. The stuff that happened in the two countries were that in October there was a direct and dangerous arguments between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two countries came closer to nuclear conflicts. It happened when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962.
  • Apollo program

    Apollo program
    The person that was involved was the third United states human. The thing that happened The Saturn V5 rocket was used for the moon landing missions. It happened by The first four flights tested the equipment used in the Apollo Program. Six of the other seven flights landed on the moon. The first Apollo flight happened in 1968. The first moon landing took place in 1969 and that last moon landing was in 1972.
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    Cultural revolution

    In the Cultural revolution the person that was involved in it was Mao Zedong. The stuff that happened was that that the movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist Party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life.The ways that happened in the cultural was that in the 1966 Mao Zedong has launched the order of reassert his authority over the Chinese government.
  • Revolt in Czechoslovakia

    Revolt in Czechoslovakia
    In the Revolt in Czechoslovakia was Alexander Dubcek. The stuff that happen was in January 1968 when reformist Alexander Dubcek was elected first secretary of the communist party of Czechoslovakia. It happen because the Soviet Union led the Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down the reformist trends in Prague.