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Cold War
The Cold War was started at the end of WWII in 1945 by the controversial conflicts between The United States and USSR.
The war had no casualties but occured for a long period of time because of the different beliefs and perspective of 2 nations.
The Cold War ended in the mid-1991. -
Yalta Conference
Cold War begins.
The Yalta Conference took place in a Russian resort town in the Crimea from February 4-11, 1945, during World War Two. At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions for the future progress of the war and the postwar world. -
End of World War 2
Japanese surrender.
The Japanese navy and air force were destroyed. The U.S bombing the Japanese cities had left the country and its economy devastated. The U.S using the atomic bomb to defeat them. The iatomiic bomb was invented by the scientist name Robert Einstein and was practiced by the command of the president of America- Franklin Roosevelt. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The speech was delivered by Winston Churchill - Great Britian Prime Minister, at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri. He described the phrse " Iron Curtain" to the division beteen western powers and the area controlled by the USSR. The purpose of the speech is to expose the power bweeen The U.S and Great Britian to warned against the expansionistic policies of the Soviet Union which we call it Communism. -
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
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Berlin Blockade begins
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year. Coming just three years after the end of World War II, the blockade was the first major clash of the Cold War and foreshadowed future conflict over the city of Berlin. -
NATO ratified
After World War II the countries of Western Europe found themselves too weak politically and militarily to prevent the spread of the communist. It is an agreement that involved a total of 12 nations including the United Kingdom and the United States. The Western European powers relied on the massive nuclear arsenal of the United States to deter a Soviet ground invasion. Eventually NATO technology rendered the power of Soviet Union’s ground forces irrelevant. After the fall of communism the need -
Mao Zedong take control over China
He is a communist had a stronghold in northwestern China. Communists controlled much of northern china because they won the peasant’s loyalty. While north China was becoming a Communist region. China had split into two nations – one was the island of Taiwan, or Nationalist China and the mainland, Republic of China. When the Communists took power, they aimed to strengthen its 550 million people and its nation. His fellows also named him as a hero of the country in his regime. -
Soviet explode first atomic bomb
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lightning." n order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. -
Korean War begins
a war between South and North Korea, but America and Russia were using it to fight without having a ‘hot war’
Kim Il Sung wanted to unite Korea together but under a communist rule. Because of this, the USSR supported the invasion but were wary of becoming physically involved due to the fact that World War II had only just ended. In response, the US tried to intervene due to their fear of communism spreading throughout Asia. -
Korean War ends
A ceasefire stopped the fighting on July 27, 1953. There was an armistice signed by North Korea, China and the UN but not South Korea. Korea is still split into North Korea, which is communist, and South Korea which is non-communist. The border, protected by a demilitarized zone, was established along the 38th parallel. -
Vietnam split at 17th parallel
it was a division of Vietnam into Communist North Vietnam and Southern Democratic Vietnam. Each were supported by foreign powers, China and the USSR for the north and America supported the southern Democratic portion. -
Warsaw Pact formed
Members that formed the Warsaw Pact included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Albania, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. One reason as to why the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact was to minimize the threat of invasion from Western Europe. -
Spuntnik launched into orbit
On 4 October 1957, the Soviets accelerated far beyond the rest of the scientific world with the launching of Sputnik. Up until the time of launch, the Soviets were able to keep the Sputnik series a secret from the majority of the world -
Spuntnik launch into orbit
On 4 October 1957, the Soviets accelerated far beyond the rest of the scientific world with the launching of Sputnik. Up until the time of launch, the Soviets were able to keep the Sputnik series a secret from the majority of the world -
Spontnik launched into orbit
On October 4, 1957 Sputnik I, the first earth-orbiting artificial satellite, was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. The Soviet space program, under the direction of its Chief Designer, Sergei Kurchatov, thereby achieved a major victory in its competition -- the "space race" -- with the United States. -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro took over Cuba by a force and remained its dictatorial leader for nearly 5 decades. Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt by Fidel's movement against the regime of Cuban dictator between 1953 and 1959. Bastista was ousted on January 1, 1959. He was then replaced by Castro's revolutionary government. This government later formed along communist lines. During 1959 and 1960, Castro made radical changes in Cuba, including nationalizing industry, collectivizing agriculture, and seizing Am -
American U-2 spy plane shot down
shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers
USSR confronted with the evidence of his nation's espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. The Soviets convicted Powers on espionage charges and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. However, after serving less than two years, he was released in exchange. -
John F. Kennedy elected President
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States.
Various large-scale events happened during his presidency, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the civil rights movement, and the space race.
In 1963, Kennedy was assassinated, allegedly by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was himself killed by Jack Ruby before a trial and only two days after Kennedy’s assassination. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. -
Contruction of Berlin begins
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism. -
Cuban Missille Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived th -
U.S. Marines sent to Dominican Republic to fight Communism
In an effort to forestall what he claims will be a "communist dictatorship" in the Dominican Republic, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends more than 22,000 U.S. troops to restore order on the island nation.
In the United States government, fear spread that "another Cuba" was in the making in the Dominican Republic. many officials strongly suspected that Cuban leader Fidel Castro was involved. -
North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence vessel, is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. The Pueblo was in international waters almost 16 miles from shore, but the North Koreans turned their guns on the lightly armed vessel and demanded its surrender. The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander and two others. With capture inevita -
Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
SALT I signed
An agreement signed in 1972 by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev after the first round of Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I), held from 1969-72. It consisted of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. -
United States helps overthrow Chile government
In September 1973, President Salvador Allende was overthrown by the Chilean Military and endorsed by the United States. President Allende was involved with the Chilean Communist Party since the beginning, and so President Nixon informed that government in Chile wouldn't be accepted and he wasn't going to let him come into power. On the other hand, the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily. The Supreme Court denounced the Allende government's disrupt -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
The NVA rolled into South Vietnam with conventional forces; tanks and infantry. No army on earth had been bombed the way the NVA had been bombed (relentlessly) by B-52 bombers. That toughed their cadre (because that's all they had left after such bombing). Any army that's tough enough to with-stand YEARS of B-52 bombing, would find it a "cake walk" (easy) when it came to invading South Vietnam (with no further B52 bombings). -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
The United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese). attempting to prevent the spread of communism.
Engaged in a war that many viewed as having no way to win, U.S. leaders lost the American public's support for the war. Since the end of the war, the Vietnam War has become a benchmark for what not to do in all future U.S. foreign conflicts.
North Vietnam launched a massive assault on South Vietnam which led South Vietnam surrenders to the communists( North Vietnam) -
SALT II signed
The primary goal of SALT II was to replace the Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapons systems. The principal U.S. objectives as the SALT II negotiations began were to provide for equal numbers of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles for the sides, to begin the process of reduction of these delivery vehicles, and to impose restraints on qualitative developments which could threaten future stability. -
U.S. troops overthrow regime in Grenada
In 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada and Overthrew the communist government in favor of a pro-Western one in a span of less than two months. -
Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
More than eight years after they intervened in Afghanistan to support the procommunist government, Soviet troops begin their withdrawal. The event marked the beginning of the end to a long, bloody, and fruitless Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. -
China puts down protests for democracy; Poland becomes independent
On June 4, 1989, troops, armoured personnel carriers and tanks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) forced their way through human and constructed barricades into central Beijing, taking control of Tiananmen Square. In the process, according to an estimate by Amnesty International soon afterwards, approximately 1000 unarmed protesters were gunned down or otherwise killed. -
Berlin Wall falls
In the evening of November 9, 1989, East German government official Günter Schabowski stated during a press conference that travel through the border to the West was open.
People who heard the broadcast were shocked. They went to the border to see if it was true. The border guards, who had no explicit instructions as to what to do, let them through. -
Boris Yeltsin elected to presidency of Russia
Citizens of the vast Russian republic, breaking with 70 years of Communist Party rule, elected radical reformist Boris Yeltsin as their first president today, while the people of Leningrad voted to change the name of their city back to its czarist original, St. Petersburg. -
Warsaw Pact endsv
After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact—the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart. -
Germany reunited
East and West Germany reunited on October 30 1990 after 45 years of post-war division. Later on August 31, 1990, East and West Germany signed the Unification Treaty, which called for the accession of five states of East Germany to West Germany. -
End of Soviet Union Cold War Ends
In the late 1980s, the Cold War came to a dramatic end. The economies of nations behind the Iron Curtain were in trouble. People in East Germany, for instance, could see the prosperity and wealth of their West German neighbors. Also, the cold war ended by the decline of the USSR and the collapse of the communist prty dictatorship in Europe. -
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