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Russian Communist Revolution
The collective terms for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autoracy and led to the creating of the Russian SFSR. The Emperor was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution. In the second revolution, during October, the Provisonal Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (communist) government. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty was signed at the end of World War 1 by the Allied and Associated Powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The Soviets ended up getting mad with Germany after the treaty which led to Germany and Berlin splitting into East and West. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization that was created after WW1 to help in resolving international disputes throughout the world in order to prevent a second world war. The League of nations ended up failing after WW2 broke out since its primary surface was to avoid a second world war. The league of Nations led to the United Nations after WW2 and the U.N. helped during the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the WW2 meeting of the heads of the government of the U.S., United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The purpose was discussing Europe's post war reorganization. -
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MAD
Doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full- scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. -
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Nuclear Detterence
The military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consquence. -
United Nations created
A replacment for the ineffective League of Nations. The UN's mission to preserve world of peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies. -
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Nuremberg Trials
A series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after the World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly was one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only body in which every member of the organization is represented and allowed to vote. The U.N. took on major military and peacekeeping. The General Assembly was on of the main principles that were invovlved since it dealt with the voting of the countries in the U.N. -
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A chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was the cilmination of the chinese communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921 and the second part of Chinese Civil War. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War. Physically, the Iron Curtain took the form of border defenses between the countries of Europe in the middle of the continent. -
Baruch Plan
This plan proposed:
- All countries exchange basic science information
- Implement control of nuclear weapons
- Eliminate all weapons of mass destruction
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Apollo 11
The spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon. The space race was a major part of the Cold War. The Russains were on the moon and in space first but we got the first humans on the moon. -
Truman Doctrine
This was a policy set by President Truman stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent from falling into Soviet hands. -
Marshall Plan
The U.S. gave $17 billion to help in rebuilding European economies after WW2 and to also prevent the spread of communism in Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviets blockaded West Germany so that the Wesst Germans couldn't get their supplies and would starve and end up retreating. But the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city (Berlin) from the air giving the West Berlins food and water and other needs so that they wouldn't retreat. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization constitues a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
"Enemies from Within": Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Accusations of Disloyalty. He gave the speech on the 141st birthday of Abraham Lincoln. In the speech he explains the threat of communism. -
Korean War
War started when about 75,000 troops from North Korean People's Army went across the 38th parrallel. The U.S. fought for South Korea while China and Soviet Union fought for North Korea. They were fighting over the spread of communism, the South did not want communist while the North did. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland. It was made/signed in response to N.A.T.O. -
Sputnik launched
The first man made satilite launched by the Russians. The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The invasion was a failed attempt to overthrow the new communist leader Fidel Castro. The invasion failed when the U.S. military did not send support to help the counter-revolutionary military, that was trained by the U.S, to overthrow Castro. -
Building of Berlin Wall
Barrier that seperated East and West Germany. East being controlled by the U.S.S.R and West being controlled by the U.S, and its allies. -
Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Cuba becoming the Communist was a big deal to the United States. It meant the USSR had a ally on the western half of the world. This later leads to the cuban missile crisis. -
Berlin Wall
A second wall was built in June, 1962 in order to prevent from escaping to the West. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13- day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. The United States established a military blockade to prevent further missiles from entering Cuba. They reached a negotiation, They would have to take out all the missiles in Cuba and the US had to dismantle them in Turkey. It was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full scale nuclear war. -
U.S. sends troops to vietnam
3,500 U.S. troops land near Da Nang, South Vietnam. The troops were sent there to stop the spreading of communism that was starting to take over vietnam. -
Non- Proliferation Agreement
An international treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. -
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SALT I/II
During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. -
Kent State Shooting
Occured at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students bu the Ohio National Guard. Some of the students who were shot had been protesting the Cambodian Campaign, which President Richard Nixon announced during a television address. -
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Margaret Thatcher
Was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of saigon was the capture of saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the Peoples Army of Vietnam. Iit was the end of the Vietnam war and lead to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic governed by the Communist Party. -
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Pope John Paul II
John Paul II believed communism was evil and is believed to have helped stop communism from spreading to Eastern Europe. -
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This event began a brutal, decade- long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border. -
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Deng Xiaoping
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Lech Walesa
1990-1995, Lech Walesa, the president of Poland, played a small but significant role in bringing the Cold War to an end. When the 10th plenary session of the comminist party ended, Walesa played a crucial role in organizing Roundtable talks with the party members. Walesa paved the way for reforms in other countries by taking the first step. -
The Fall of Berlin Wall
A series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pre-soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. The government was now allowing East Germans to freely pass into West Berlin.