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The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the meeting of the heads of the United Stares, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. It was origionally called to discuss the re-establishents of the nations destroyed by war in Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine arose from a speech given by president Turman on March 12, 1947. Truman asked congress to support and aid Greece and Turkey againt communists. This is important to the Cold War because Historians refer to this as the beginning of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan is considered the American's inituative to help Europe. The U.S helped Europe re-build their economies after World War 2 in an attempt to prevent furthur communist expansion. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Soviets attempted to push the West out of Berli and required all Western travelers headed for Berlin to be searched. The Trizone goverent refused.Shpments through Berlin came to a hault. With Berlin confronted with starvation and in need of vital necessities it was time to take action. On June 27,it was approved for the West to ship goods to Berlin through an airlift. Ths U.S made 270,000 flights. The Soviets lifted the blockade and the airlift became a symbol that th U.S is will stand up. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Orginiation. It is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
USSR Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Uion exploded the firt atomic bomb. The U.S didn't know the USSR possessed nuclear knowledge. This posed as a great threat so Trueman called for the U.S to build up it's weapons to stop the Soviet's influence -
Korean War Begins
North Korea forces suprised South Korea and made their way to South's Korea's capital. The U.S called for military assistance to help the South Korean's -
Rosenburg Spy case
. In 1950, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Julius Rosenberg , an electrical engineer who had worked for the U.S. army signal corps, and his wife Ethel ; they were indicted for conspiracy to transmit classified military information regarding the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
East German Uprising
Workers in East Berlin protested against the government's orders to increase productivity. Almost a million East Germans joined and they all began rioting across East Germany. -
Koran War (ended)
The fighting ended on July 27,1953 whe the armistice agreement was signed. The agreemet maintained the border between the Koreas near the 38th parallel -
Nikita Kruschev comes to power
Kruschev attempted reforms in both domestic and foreign policy, with mixed results. During his tterm,world politics became much more complex as the insecurities of the Cold War persisted. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command. -
Hungarian Uprising
The Hungarian uprising, also known as the Hungarian revolution, was a nationwide revolt against the government. Despite the failure of the uprising, it was highly influential, and came to play a role in the downfall of the Soviet Union decades later. -
Sputnik
was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War.The launch introduced The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments -
U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960 when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of pigs Invasion
The bay of pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces. -
Berlin Wall
East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin, and the number of checkpoints in which Westerners could cross the border was drastically reduced. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side.War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflictand is also the first documented instance of mutual assured destruction -
Prague Spring
Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. -
Soviet war in Afganistan
Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. The Peshawar Seven insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China,[9] as well as weapons and billions of dollars from the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. -
Lech Walesa organizes trade union Soldarity
Solidarity is a Polish trade union federation. Lech Walesa organized it as the first non-Communist Party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country. -
Mikhail Gorbechev comes to power
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman.He was the seventh and last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union. -
The taking down of the Berlin Wall
In 1989, a series of radical political changes occured, East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin.The physical Wall itself was primarily destroyed in 1990. -
German reunification
The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany.