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Russian Communist Revolution
Two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting in motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. In March, growing civil unrest, coupled with chronic food storages,erupted into open revolt, forcing the abdication of Nicholas 2, the last Russian czar. Just months later, the newly installed provisional govt was itself overthrown by the more radical Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was to keep the world peace between the all the nations signing the country allies, if a powerful could try went to war with its enemy their allies would help them fight for it -
League of Nations
The League of Nations formally comes into being when the Covenant of the League of Nations, ratified by 42 nations in 1919, takes effect. The League of Nations was approved, however, and in the summer of 1919 Wilson presented the Treaty of Versailles and the Covenant of the League of Nations to the U.S. Senate for ratification. -
MAD
Means mutual assured destruction the mad determines if the two sides of the world power United States and the Soviet Union to achieve nuclear weapons which means go have the same amount of nuclear weapons -
Yalta Conference
Was the second wartime meeting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and began plans for post-war world.Although most of these agreements were initially kept secret , the revelations of the conference particulars became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War. -
The Nuremberg Trails
It was an agreement for the military which was held by allies forces after World War 2 that was because of the Holocaust were brought into conference to confess there responsibility for the crimes in camps and they were brought into 12 different trails for the same problem -
United Nations
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity,as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. The growing Second World War became the real impetus for the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union to begin formulating the original U.N. Declaration,signed by 26 nations in Jan. 1942, as a formal act of opposition to Germany,Italy,and Japan, the Axis powers. -
General Assembly
The large size of the General Assembly and the diversity of the issues it discussed contributed to the emergence of regionally based voting blocs in the 1960s. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe formed one of the most cohesive blocs. Since the 1980s and the end of the Cold War, blocs have formed around "North-South" economic issues. -
Iron curtain Speech
During the Cold War Mr. Winston Churchill told his speech on-the-go 1946 called Iron Curtain. It was about the Soviet Union policies in Europe to declare the Baltic to triensite and the automatic; and then he talks about the United States having world power and how they try to defeat the Soviet Union " Communist faith column that we're operating throughout western and Southern Europe -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was mad by the United States govt. it was for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations -
Truman Doctrine
In a speech to a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often citied Truman's address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was for the rensure the Europe people was recover the economic lost because of the war. The European wanted to restore their economic to be like United States because of the influence power -
Berlin Airlift
After World War 2, the allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-Occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. Russians wanted Berlin to themselves. This effort known as the a"Berlin Airlift" lasted for more that a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
NATO created
The NATO created by the United States which means ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was the first peacetime military alliance which was set to have against the Soviet Union it was also set after World War 2 it helps to influx of aid to help the war for the things that was lost -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Mao Zedong declared the creation of the people republic of china, there was war against the Chinese communist party and the nationalist party which also called koomintang which led to ww2. the communist started to spread to Bejing and the nationalist army the northern expansion they wanted to prevent the formation of a strong central govt. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
During the late 1940's and early 1950's, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the united states
Senator Joseph p. McCarthy spent almost 5 years trying to vain communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the u.s govt.
In the hyper-suspicious atmosphere of the cold war, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their govt was packed with traitors and spies -
Korean War
Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean people's army poured across the 38th parallel, this invasion was the first military action of the Cold War it was against the forces of international communism itself -
Nuclear Deterrence
Taking place during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each build a stockpile of nuclear weapons but this evening means that the credible threat of retaliation to forces all the enemy attack and the United States has full control over this -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, it included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania,Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. This revolved around "Western Germany, which is being remilitarized, and her inclusion in the North Atlantic bloc, which increases danger of a new war and creates a threat to the national security of peace-loving states". This referred to the decision by U.S to make West Germany a member of NATO -
Sputnik launched
Soviet Union successfully launched the Sputnik 1, the worlds first artificial satellite it weighed only 183 pounds, took about 98 minutes to orbit the earth on its elliptical path, launched ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments, while the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the us- ussr space race -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Castro publicly declared himself a Marxist-Leninist in late 1961. By that time, Cuba was becoming increasingly dependent on the Soviet Union for economic and military support. The United States discovered that nuclear missiles had been stationed there, just 90 miles from Florida,setting off fears of a World War 3. After a 13-day standoff, Soviet leader Khrushchev agreed to remove the nukes against the wishes of Castro, who was left out of the negotiations. -
U.S sends troops to Vietnam
21,000 u.s troops are sent to Vietnam, north Vietnamese; regular troops had begun to infiltrate South Vietnam, 173rd airborne brigade ; us troops and marines and paratroopers arrived to secure u.s air bases and facilities. Forces transition from defensive missions to direct combat operations, as war escalated more and more U.S. combat troops were sent to South Vietnam -
Building of Berlin Wall
In an effort to the stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist govt. of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Germany. Construction of the wall caused short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
John F Kennedy, maintained that Castro posed no real threat to America, but the new president believed that masterminding the Cuban leader's removal would show Russia, China and skeptical Americans that he was serious about winning the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall (the partioning of Berlin)
a quarrel, between an East German border guard and an American official on his way to the opera in East Berlin very nearly led to what observer called a "nuclear-age equivalent of the Wild West Showdown at the O.K. Corral." That day, American and Soviet tanks faced off at Checkpoint Charlie for 16 hours. Photographs of the confrontation are some of the most familiar and memorable images of the Cold War -
Cuban Missile Crisis
For 13 days of 1964 they were threatened on the brink of nuclear war, Cuba and the Soviet Union were locked in a standoff. The Cold War in 1959 Castro was in power and a year later the Soviet Union had there mussels in Cuba facing near the u.s. the United States wanted to stop any war to happen -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
Nuclear weapons was to have each non nuclear weapon state party to the treat, to accept safeguard as the set forth in a agreement and believing that the nuclear weapons is a huge enhance for danger so it was used to have peaceful nuclear activities -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the most significant events in space race between the United States and the Soviet Union after the U.S.S.R launched Sputnik, the first satellite, and successfully sent a man into space, America had rushed to develop technology that the Soviet Union already had Apollo 11 was a mission to complete the first lunar landing the mission was considered a great success, and was a win for the United States in the space race -
Kent State Shooting
President Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters launched a demonstration that included setting fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guradsman to the campus. -
The Salt 1/2
Salt were 2 rounds of bilateral conferences and international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union the Cold War superpower on the issue of armament control. During the late 1960 had embarked upon massive international ballistic missile design to reach parity with the United States -
Fall of Saigon
Saigon, capital city of South Vietnam, fell to North Vietnamese. The fall of Saigon effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the introduction of Vietnamisation by President Nixon, US forces in South Vietnam had been constantly reduced leaving the military of South Vietnam to defend their country against the North.By 1975, what remained of the South Vietnamese Army was not capable of withstanding the advance of the North and it was inevitability that Saigon would fall to Communist -
Margaret Thatcher
United Kingdom's first and thus far only female prime minister, served from 1979 until 1990. During her time in office, she reduced the influence of trade unions, privatized certain industries, scaled back public benefits and changed the terms of political debate, much like her friend and ideological ally, US president Ronald Reagan. She opposed Soviet communism and fought a war to maintain control of the Falkland Islands. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The end of december in 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions in the country, the event was brutal, it was a decade long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan Civil War and to maintain a friendly and socialist govt. Watershed event of the Cold War marking the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern Bloc a strageric decision -
Deng Xiaoping
Was a Chinese communist leader and the most powerful figure in the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1977 -
Pope John Paul ii
Became the first non Italian pope for a very long time, he was a vocal advocate for the human rights and used his influence to effect political change to become a priest John Paul began studying at a secret Seminary that was run by the archbishop of krakor when he was considered one of the Catholic Church leader thinkers, he participated in the second Vatican council John helped the church examine its position in the world -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
as the cold war began thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Lech Walesa
Helped formed and lead communist Poland first independent trade union, and he also won the Nobel peace prize, he collaborate with the communist secret police he was instrumental in political negotiations that led to the groundbreaking gdańsk agreement between striking workers and the govt. -
Start 1/2
It means stragetic arms reduction treat this treaty was agreed on a two submit meeting between George H.B Bush and the Russian press, they established a limit on stragetic weapons for each party with reductions to be implemented in two phases between the United States
