Arnold.Andrew.Cold.War.Timeline

  • Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh

    Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world.
  • Superpower

    Superpower

    a very powerful and influential nation
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Program made to encourage countries to resist communist expansion
  • Jules & Ethel Rosenberg

    Jules & Ethel Rosenberg

    USSR Spies
  • The Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Wall was made
  • Draft

    Draft

    Listing of people into the army
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Demilitarized zone

    Demilitarized zone

    The space near the 38th parallel that cannnot have any military
  • Douglas Macarthur

    Douglas Macarthur

    General that led the attack against North Korea
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea in hope to control them and spread communism
  • Landing at Inchon

    Landing at Inchon

    Marines force made a surprise amphibious landing at the strategic port of Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, about 100 miles south of the 38th parallel and 25 miles from Seoul
  • Joseph McCarthy

    Joseph McCarthy

    Former Senator
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    For European Recovery
  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    General in Russia
  • Vietcong

    Vietcong

    political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Russia's version of NATO
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Failed military attack on cuba by the US
  • Che Guevara

    Che Guevara

    Communist Guerilla
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    President Of the united states
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Blockade between Berlin and the world
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    Russia sent Missles to Communist Cuba
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans

    Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans

  • Nikita Khurshchev

    Nikita Khurshchev

    Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    US involved in war in vietnam
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    Supprise guerilla attacks
  • Communism collapses

    Communism collapses

    Russia no longer is communist
  • Armistise

    Armistise

    an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce
  • Salt agreement

    Salt agreement

    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    40th president of the US
  • Star Wars

    Star Wars

    Attack System for the US
  • Detente

    Detente

    efforts to reduce conflict with superpowers
  • Glasnost

    Glasnost

    Russian term for speaking out openly
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Former Soviet Statesman