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Nuclear Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. In the meeting the Big Three Decide that they will hold elections to decide what kind of government each country will have. -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin goes back on his word about letting the contries have a vote. He decides that he will keep the Eastern countries and use them as protection. He was able to do this because other counties did not want another war so they just alllowed it to happen. -
Nuclear Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. Russia Ended up having more waepons and neclear bombs then the United States. Now they are to scared to use the bombs because they fear that they might destroy the whole world. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman doctrine used to it to be the foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. -
Marshall Plan
large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II -
Russian Blockade of Berlin
Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. -
Berlin Airlift
Supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily by the United States. It was a response to the Russian Blockade of Berlin. -
Rosenberg Spy Case
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and Julius Rosenberg were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war. -
Korean War
The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War[A 3] was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Hungarian Uprising
Hungarians opposed to the communist government which was really put in place by the Russians revolted in a popular uprising.
Many secret police and Hungarian officials were killed.
The Russians sent in tanks which put down the uprising killing many of the revolutionaries, sending some to siberia but many managed to escape to the west through Austria..
It made relations a lot worse but nobody really expected any help from the Americans. -
U-2 Crisis
An United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. When Russia blamed the United states, they denied it at first, but then it claimed it was only doing surveilance and not spying on the USSr. The only reason they admitted that it was theirs was to get the remains of their pilot back. -
Bay of Pigs
America trained Cuban exiles from the United states to attack Cuba. It was a major failure for the United States It was an attept to overthrow the Cuban governemt. -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin, in an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
Tet Offensive
The TET Offensive was a coordinated attack by the NVA on the American and ARVN forces and cities of South Viet Nam in 1968. It was an attempt by the NVA to end the war quickly by attacking everywhere in the South at the same time.t was a military failure, but a political victory as it turned the citizens of America against the war. -
Prague Spring
Prague Spring was an event which occurred in 1968, when the politics of Czechoslovakia were briefly liberalized due to sweeping reforms. In response, the Soviet Union cracked down hard on the government of Czechoslovakia, ultimately invading and taking over the country in the name of “normalization.” This event is of historical interest because it marks a period of protest and dissent against the Soviet Union, much like the Solidarity movement in Poland in 1980 and the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. -
Détente
Détente was the general reduction in the tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and a "thawing" of the Cold War that occurred from the late 1960s until the start of the 1980s. More generally, it may be applied to any international situation where previously hostile nations not involved in an open war "warm up" to each other and threats de-escalate. -
Fall of South Vietnam
The causes cited were many and interwoven — shortcomings in South Vietnam's political and military leadership, planning, and organization — but all were tied to what the interviewees saw as the overarching cause for the collapse: the American role in Vietnam. -
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was the foreign policy in the United States, enacted by Ronald Reagan during his presidency, to help eliminate the communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were supported by the Soviet Union. Implementation of this plan provided both open and private support to guerrilla and resistance movements in Soviet-supported communist countries. This doctrine was the foreign policy of the United States from about 1980 to 1991. With the creation of the Reagan Doctri -
Perestroika
An economic reform program introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. One of many buzz words used by Gorbachev to describe his reforms. The word literally means "restructuring," and refers to restructuring the economic system of the Soviet Union. The two biggest reforms being: first, the Law of Cooperatives in 1988 that allowed private ownership of certain types of businesses (services, manufacturing, and fore -
Collapse of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall fell officially on November 9, 1986, although it took six months to take the wall down entirely. The fall of the Berlin Wall broke the gap between Eastern and Western Germany as well as Eastern and Western Europe. -
End of USSR
Left all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union as independent sovereign states. The dissolution of the world's largest communist state also marked an end to the Cold War. In order to revive the stagnant Soviet economy, in the 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev began a process of increasing political liberalization (glasnost/perestroika) in the erstwhile totalitarian, communist one-party state. His reforms ended the largest communist country.
