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Cold War

By Tom Waddell

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Korea had been previously been annexed to Japan since 1910, after the collapse of the Japanese empire at the end of World War II (september 1945), Korea was left without a proper government and did not have the proper institutions for one. Countries like the Japan, China, Manchuria, the US and the USSR scrambled over control of Korea.

  • Containment (Policy)

    Containment (Policy)
    Containment was a tactic employed by the United States in order to stop the spread of communism. This came about because of the soviet unions attempt to grow communism and its influence in countries in Eastern Europe as well as parts of Asia. Harry Truman who was US President at the time believed that the US economic/military security depended on a strong and democratic Europe and therefore saw reason for the policy of containment.

  • NUCLEAR ARMS RACE

    NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
    The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United State and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
    In the years immediately after the Second World War, the United States had a monopoly on specific knowledge of and raw materials for nuclear weaponry, so initially the US had many more warheads, launchers etc. But as the cold war went on, many soviet spies had infiltrated the US and had taken many secrets of the Nuclear weapons back to the soviets.

  • NATO

    NATO
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation or more commonly known as NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance that was formed flowing WW2 and came into full action during the cold war.

  • American Spy Plane Incident

    American Spy Plane Incident
    May 1, 1960, the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace. The fallout over the incident resulted in the cancellation of the Paris Summit scheduled to discuss the ongoing situation in divided Germany, the possibility of an arms control or test ban treaty, and the relaxation of tensions between the USSR and the United States.

  • Building of the Berlin Wall

    Building of the Berlin Wall
    At the conclusion of World War II Germany was in economic chaos, their industries had been lost and the people were starving. Stalin, leader of the USSR, hoped to keep Germany in this despaired state to prevent them from recovering. His overall plan was to spread communism throughout Europe.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
    On 14th October 1962 when an American spy plane captured detailed photographs of missile sites being built. Over the next few days more photos were taken, it was calculated the first sights would be operational within seven days, with the rest not following far behind. Kennedy met with a group of advisers called Ex comm on the 16th. The problem was that these missiles were so close and were capable of hitting as far as Salt Lake City far in the East.

  • 35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy

    35th U.S. President John F. Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy, the 35th United States President was the first U.S. President born in the 20th century. He grew up privileged, as he attended private school ranging from the famous prep school Choate, to the prestigious Harvard University where he,majored in political science, graduated with honours as well as receiving an academic level of distinction.