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Russian Communist Revolution
The people of Russia rebelled against the government and overthrew it.This revolution caused Russia to be changed into the Soviet Union (the USSR.)This created the first communist country in the world. -
Treaty of Versilles
This treaty was the treaty that brought WWI to an end. It caused Germany to go into hyper inflation and a depression because of all the reparations they had to pay. This depression allowed Hitler to come into power. After Germany was defeated in WWII, U.S. wanted the punishment on Germany to be a lot less harsher so that they wouldn’t go into a depression. The Soviets wanted the punishment to be harsher. -
League of Nations
The League of Nation’s goal was to encourage co-operation, stop aggression & arms race in the world, and improve overall social conditions. Made up of The Assembly, the Secretariat, The Council, and the Permanent Court of International Justice. -
Yalta Conference
This conference was held to re-establish Europe after WWII. This was very controversial during the Cold War. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly occupies a central position as the chief deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations. -
MAD
Mutual Assured Destruction,is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender -
United Nations
When World War II ended, the Allies created the United Nations to try to keep peace in the world (replacing the League of Nations.) There were two main bodies that created the United Nations: The General Assembly and the Security Council. -
Nuremberg Trials
At the end of World War II, the Allied armies discovered concentration camps throughout Germany, Poland, and Austria. To punish the people running these concentration camps, the Nuremburg Trials were held (from 1945-1949.) There were 13 trials overall and most defendants were found guilty: imprisoned or sentenced to death -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave a speech about the spread of communism in Eastern Europe. In the speech he mentions an “iron curtain.” -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the U.S government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission -
Truman Doctrine
When the Soviet Union tried to overthrow the conservative government in Greece to change to communism, U.S. president, Harry Truman proposed the Truman Doctrine to help aid any country in the world that wanted to fight against having a communist government. This policy was also known as the policy of containment. -
Marshall Plan
The United States launched the Marshall Plan to help aid Europe after its fall. This program of economic aid was offered to both western and eastern Europe, but Stalin refused to allow the plan to take action in Eastern Europe (he thought it was a plan to undermine his control.) Therefore, only Western Europe was recovered. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union violated their agreement with Britain, France, and the United Stated which states that they all must share the control over Berlin. The Soviet Union tried to take overall control over the city by using a blockade.To solve the problem of the city not getting supplies, the Western Allies airlifted food and other supplies to Berlin.This lasted for about a year. -
NATO created
The western nations (United Stated, Italy, France, Canada, Britain, and more) formed NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to organize their defense against the Soviet Union. These nations agreed that if one got attacked, they would fight against the attacker. -
The Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was a civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (Soviet Union supported) and the Nationalist Party (U.S. supported.) Chinese Communist leader, Mao Zedong declared he creation of the PRC (People’s Republic of China) after defeating the Nationalist Party. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
McCarthy gave a speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia. In his speech he said, “In my opinion the State Department, which is one of the most important government departments, is thoroughly infested with Communists. I have in my hand 57 cases of individuals who would appear to be either card carrying members or certainly loyal to the Communist Party, but who nevertheless are still helping to shape our foreign policy…" -
Korean War
After World War II, Korea was divided into North and South Korea. The Korean War was fought between North Korea (communism) and South Korea (democracy).U.S. helped fight against the north because we didn’t want communism to spread.The 38th parallel was the border between North and South Korea and where the Soviets attack across. -
Warsaw Pact
The counter organization of the Soviet Union & seven other communist countries in Eastern Europe (Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria) against NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). -
Sputnik Launched
It was the worlds first satellite (on an ICBM).This launching caused shock to Americans.Showed the Soviet Union’s technological capability and military potential. -
Nuclear Deterrent
The Nuclear Deterrent nuclear weapons are intended to deter other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
After Fidel Castro came to power and failed to establish a democratic government in Cuba, Cuban refugees (with the help of the U.S.) tried to invade Cuba and take down Castro. Because they had no support form the local population, the Bay of pigs invasion was unsuccessful. This lead to an end to any diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Castro declaired he is a Marxist Leninist and shall be one until the end of his life -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Khrushchev installs missiles in Cuba (90 miles south of the U.S.)
President JFK demanded that the missiles be removed
Khrushchev removed the missiles in exchange that the U.S. takes their missiles out of Turkey. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
This was the U.S response to Gulf of Tonkin, President Lyndon B. Johnson and congress decided to have troops land in Vietnam to escalate the growing conflict. In March of 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed in South Vietnam; they were the first U.S.troops arrive in Vietnam. The United State's involvement in the Vietnam war reflected the policy of containment. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War–a literal “iron curtain” dividing Europe -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
This was an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament -
Apollo11
United States' first lunar landing mission. Crew: Neil Armstrong (Mission Commander), Michael Collins, (Command Module Pilot), Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (Lunar Module Pilot). "The Eagle has landed"
"...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" -
Kent State Shootings
Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University students protesting against the Vietnam War, killing four and wounding nine.The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. -
SALT 1
SALT I, as it is commonly known, was the first of the Strategic Arms Limitation talks between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev; signed in May 1972 -
Fall Of Saigon
America withdrew completely from Saigon.America leaving left the old noncommunist capital to fall to North Vietnamese tanks.This marked the end of the Vietnam War -
Pope John Paul II
He was the pope during the Cold War. -
Margaret Thatcher
She was the British Prime Minister during the Cold War. -
SALT II
signed June 18, 1979, by Brezhnev and Carter. Set more specific regulations on the different missiles because the two countries strategies had been changed -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Russian paratroopers landed in Kabal (the capital of Afghanistan)
On December 27th, 1979, Amin (Afghanistan’s past leader) was shot by the Russians and he was replaced by Babrak Kamal (he needed Russian military support to keep him in power)
The United Nations had condemned the invasion (in early January 1980) but a Security Council motion calling for the withdrawal of Russian forces had been vetoed by Russia. -
Deng Xiaoping
Chairmen of Communist China during Cold war. -
Berlin Wall Fact
This wall was to prevent mass immigrations from East to West Germany. East Germany was a communist state that people were trying to flee. -
Fall of The Berlin Wall
This event opened the division between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.East German government official Günter Schabowski stated during a press conference that travel through the border to the West was open -
Lech Walesa
He was the president of Poland during the Cold War. -
START 1
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, signed July 31,1991. treaty between US and the U.S.S.R on the reduction and limitations of strategic offensive arms -
START 2
Soviet Union and US both negotiated further reductions on arms. Under the terms of this treaty both sides had to reduce their strategic warheads every few years but it never came into force.
