Cold War

By groseall

  • Chinese Revolution

    When: 1949
    Who: Communist leader Mao Zendong
    What: Mao Zendong declared the making of peoples republic of China (PRC) it lead to the civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist party or kumintang (KMP)
    How:

  • Korean war

    When: 1950- 1953
    who: North Korea, South Korea, United States
    What: North Korea sending troops path the 38th Parellel, starting battle between south and north later U.S. joined on souths behalf

  • sputnik launched (and the space race)

    When: Oct. 4 1957- 1975
    Who: Soveit Union, and United States
    What: Soviet Unions secessfully launced sputnik in
    to space. Soviet Union, and US racing eachother into space.
    How:Launches of different types of sattlites and trying different way to get to the moon.

  • U2 spy plane goes down

    When: 1960
    who: Soviet Union, and United States
    what:Was used by the USAF (United States Air Force) USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers

  • Berlin Wall Goes Up

    who: Germans
    What: 2.6 million East Germans escaped to West Berlin so they put a wall up in 1961
    Where: Germany/ Berlin

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Who: United States and Soviet Union
    What:Nulear war
    Where:Soviet missiles in Cuba, 90 miles from American soil

  • Uprising in Hungary and Czachoslovakia

    When:1956- 1968
    who: Hungary, Czachoslovakia
    What: Revolutionary actions of Hungary and Czachoslovakia
    How: Street protests, displays of rebellion, invasions into Czachoslovakia done by other countires.

  • Russia Invades Afganistan

    Who:Russia and Afganistand
    What: Many muslums fled, Afganistan was alrady getting into the civil war
    Where: Afganistan