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Yalta Conference
held towards the end of World War II to discuss: the division of Germany, formation of the United Nations, Germany war reparations, entry of Soviet forces in the Eastern Front, and the future of Poland. It involved Franklin D. Roosevelt who represented the US, Winston Churchill for Great Britain, and Josef Stalin for the USSR. -
Arms Race
This was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. During the Cold War, in addition to the American and Soviet nuclear stockpiles, other countries developed nuclear weapons, though none engaged in warhead production on nearly the same scale as the two superpowers. -
Iron Curtain speech
The Iron Curtain Speech was delivered by Winston Churchill. The basic premise of his speech was his explanation of the division of Eastern and Western Europe. The iron curtain is a symbol of the divided European countries. It is the iron curtain metaphor that symbolized the separation of countries during the cold war. It set the stage for tension and conflict in years to come. -
Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctrine was a form of American foreign policy for countries that resisted communism while simutaneously preventing the spread of it. Like the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine agreed to help the countries by providing them aid economically and militarily. The countries that the United States agreed to help included Greece and Turkey. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the Berlin airlift. The allied response was a massive air supply that flew night and day to feed the city. -
Berlin Blockade
East met West in Berlin where the Berlin wall was a symbol of the "Iron Curtain." The four nations in which this area was divided were unable to agree on a common currency, leading the USSR to put up a blockade. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Soviets Detenate Atomic Bomb
The Soviets detenate a bomb that destroys everything in its path. All is incinerated. The houses, building and insert animals. -
Chinese Communist Revoilution
Mao Zedung declared the creation of the people's republic of China. It is said that the conflict between the Unites States and the Soviet Union caused the event in China. This related to how contagious the issue over communism became and how no effort could completely stop it. -
The Korean War
When Japan decided to invade China, the Japanese forced Koreans to work in labor camps to supply the Japanese with war goods. By the end of World War II, 4 million Koreans had been forced into labor. -
Joseph Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin dies on March 5, 1953 in Kuntsevo Dacha, Moscow, Russia -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
1956 Khrushchev became the leader of the Soviet Union. He gave a speech to the Soviet leaders and attacked Stalin's policies and insisted there were many ways to build a Communist society. -
Massive Retaliation
Massive Retaliation was a strategy designed to prevent the spread of communism. The plan was to poor Russia on the brink of war by almost destroying them entirely while using nuclear weapons against them. The idea was released in s speech mate by John Foster Dulles. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources. South Vietnam was an Allie of the US and North Vietnam was an Allie of the USSR. The US feared if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would also fall to Communism. -
Space Race
the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. Though the US planned to appear “not being involved” in this attack and declared about their non-intention to intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already approached the UN with the facts about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion. -
Mutually Assured Destruction
"Whoever shoots first dies second". It acknowledged nuclear "parity". This was yet another strategic attempt in the Cold War during the end of the Kennedy ministration. It was said to assure the security of peace. -
Creation Of The Berlin Wall
For 28 years the Berlin Wall kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
After United States ships were attacked by the Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin, the resolution statement was released permitting any action necessary in order to protect the United States from attack by the Vietnamese. This event relates to the growing conflict between the USA and Vietnam caused by the United States' attempts to stop the spread of communism in the country. -
Tet Offensive
Vietnam campaign by the viet Kong against the forces of South Vietnam when no attacks were supposed to take place. The attack stunned the US and South Vietnam forces but they beat the communists back eventually. The offensive proved the Viet Kong were capable of arge military attacks. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Islamic students and militants took over the American embassy taking 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. President Carter called it terrorism and said the US will not yeild to black mail. On July 27 1980 the Shan died and Iraq invaded Iran entered negotiations to release the hostages. This event was a stepping stone into further problems between Iran and the US. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
This is the only time during the Cold War when the Soviets invaded a country of the Eastern bloc. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
He was a soviet leader in the 1980's. His reforms, perestroika and glasnost, allowed for privately owned enterprises, and for the freedom of speech and religion. This was the first time in decades that people in the USSR could openly discuss politics. His actions also lead to the destruction of the Berlin Wall. -
chernobyl
Nuclear power plant site where reactor number 4 exploded causing a large fire and radioactive particles to go in the air. The area is still uninhabited today The explosion changed how everyone looked at the power of a nuclear explosion and the radioactivity that follows. After the explosion thousands of cases of cancer were reported in the area and were thought to be the cause of the explosion. -
INF Treaty
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. -
German Re-Unification
was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
By 1985 when Gorbachev came to power, the U.S.S.R. was in severe trouble. The disintegration began in the non-Russian areas where, in 1987, the government of Estonia demanded autonomy. Realizing that he could no longer contain the power of the population, he resigned on December 25, 1991.
