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Russian Communist Revolution
Leader Vladimir Lenin led revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government. -
The Treaty of Versailles
After the signing of the treaty many problems arose regarding reparations, and the division of Germany.The Cold War enabled them generously to rebuild the western zones and to integrate people into a western alliance without renewing fears of German aggression. -
League of Nations
demonstrated the need for an effective international organization to mediate disputes, which lead to war -
The Yalta Conference
It helped lead to the Cold War by giving the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union was given the right to control Eastern Europe which led to the Cold War because it made the West feel that the USSR was bent on expanding communism -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution started from 1945, after the end of the Second Sion-Japanese War, and it is the second part of the Chinese Civil War. -
Chinese Commiunist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution or The Second Chinese Civil War started from 1945, after the end of Second Sino-Japenese War, and it is the second part of the Chinese Civil War. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly (GA) is the main policy making and representative organ of the UN. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Allied leaders of Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union “issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations,” according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Joseph Stalin initially proposed the execution of 50,000 to 100,000 German staff officers. -
Iron Curtain Speech
n one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” -
Pope John Paul II
He was the first non-Italian pope in more than 400 years. When President Reagan called out Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall the pope spoke for the first time of a Europe united "from the Atlantic to the Urals," reflecting his conviction that communism was finished. When many wondered why communism had fallen John Paul said it was because men and women over came their fear. -
Baruch Plan
This plan was meant to help gain international control of atomic weapons in the united nations. Although the plan did not get much acceptance, which caused a dangerous arms race during the time of the cold war. -
The Truman Doctrine
It addressed and outlined the broad parameters of Cold War foreign policy: the Soviet Union was the center of all communist activity and movements throughout the world; communism could attack through outside invasion or internal subversion; and the United States needed to provide military and economic assistance to protect nations from communist aggression. -
The Marshall Plan
The Plan's nation's were assisted in their economic recovery. From 1948 to 1952 European economies grew at an unknown rate. Trade relations led to the formation of the North Atlantic alliance. Economic prosperity led by coal and steel industries helped to shape the European Union. -
Nuclear Deterrent
During the cold war the US and the Soviet Union stock piled their nuclear weapons. The united states used their weapons as a deterrent against the Soviet Union, making them afraid to act fearful that that the US would use their nuclear weapons and start a nuclear war. -
Berlin Airlift
After WW2 Germany was divided into 4 zones: Britain, France, United States, Soviet Union. The zones cooperation broke down so the west decided to create a separate gov in their zone. The Soviets didn't like this so they harassed western traffic to and from Berlin. Western powers reacted by sending an airlift of food, passengers, coal, and other necessities into the city. Soviets didn't try to stop it because they knew it would either lead to war or they would have failed. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
The Republican-led House Un-American Activities Committee (known as HUAC) began a determined campaign to extirpate communist subversion at home. In 1950, Congress passed the McCarran Internal Security Act, which required that all “subversives” in the United States submit to government supervision. McCarthy declared that he had a list of 205 known members of the Communist Party who were “working and shaping policy” in the State Department. -
Korean War
first military action of the Cold War -
The Warsaw Pact
It was the communist's counteraction to the NATO and became a potential militaristic threat to them and later became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe -
Launch of Sputnik
It is the world's 1st artificial satellite launched by the Soviets. The Space Age started because of this launch. The U.S. was caught off guard by this launch and they feared more sinister uses of the Soviet's new rocket and satellite technology. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
After this Kennedy wanted to overthrow Castro so he approved Operation Mongoose. Because of this in 1962 the Cuban missile crisis grew American-Cuban-Soviet tensions even further. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
West Berlin was a geographical loophole that thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Following a year of severely strained relations between the United States and Cuba, Cuban leader Fidel Castro openly declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist. The announcement sealed the bitter Cold War animosity between the two nations. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union had a very tense 13-day standoff between both their militarys and their political systems about the Soviets putting nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba -
MAD
Mutual assured destruction or MAD was a big idea during the cold war. It stated that if one country destroyed another, with example a nuclear weapon, the other country would fire back. It helped keep the cold war constant in that it didn't turn into a hot war because both the US and USSR wanted to avoid the idea of war at all costs, and the idea that if they took action so should the other county, kept them from firing weapons. This was practiced during the Cuban missile crisis. -
Berlin Wall (JFK)
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech at the steps of the Rathaus Schoeneberg where the West Berlin Senate met. The speech was a show of solidarity with West Germany and the Berliners who had only lived in a divided Berlin for two years. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
An air defense missile battalion are deployed to Da Nang by President Johnson to provide protection to the key U.S. airbase there -
Non- Proliferation Agreement
This agreement between countries during the cold war time period was put in place to help prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and promote cooperation. -
Apollo 11
Was one of the most significant events in the Space Race between the US and Soviets. It was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The first steps taken by humans on another planetary body were taken by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. The astronauts also returned to Earth the first samples from another planetary body. -
Deng Xiaoping
He was the leader of the People's Republic of China and was appointed the head of the Communist Party in Southwest China in 1949 -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard. -
Salt I
Strategic, Arms, elimination, Treaty. The first talk between the USSR and the US. The communist leader, Brezhnev talked with Richard Nixon the US president at the time to come up with the treaty to contain the arms race. The treaty was finalized and put into action on May 26, 1972 -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation front of South Vietnam. -
Margret Thatcher
During the cold war she became the first woman to become a prime minister, and also she became Britians Concervative party leader. She helped end the cold war through her relations with President Reagan and her idea that they should keep close to the soviet union. -
Salt II
Even though the US and the Soviet Union set restrictions for the arms race previously, creating Salt I, they decided that further restrictions should be set because of the advancement in missiles. The US talked with the USSR but the treaty was never ratified, although most of the restrictions set were followed. -
Soviet-Afghan War
The Soviet-Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujaheddin fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
That night the German Communist Party announced any GDR citizen could cross the wall freely. After the announcement was made ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall trying to get over. Some crossed freely into West Berlin while others brought hammers and picks and started breaking the wall. -
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize. -
START I
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty or START was a treaty between the US and the Soviet Union which was put in place to help limit the use of offensive weapons between nations, helping to stop destruction from starting during the cold war. -
START II
After START I was put into place, a few years later it needed to be updated to keep the new and updated weapons in check during the cold war.
