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Suez Canal
End date: 11/17/1869
Summary: It's a man-made waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea.
Significance: It is is a significant route for energy, commodities, consumer goods and componentry from Asia and the Middle East to Europe. -
Red Scare
End date: 1920s
Summary: U.S marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings
Significance: Promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. -
Truman Doctrine
End date: 06/30/1948
Summary: American foreign policy that pledged American
Significance: aimed at stopping the spread of Communism -
Marshall Plan
End date: 12/1951
Summary: It provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western Europe.
Signifance: It generated a resurgence of Eupopean industriulation and bought extensive investment into the region. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
End date: 05/12/1949
Summary: The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Signifance: In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. -
Space Race
End date: 7/17/1975
Summary: The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability during the Cold War. It had missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
Significance: It showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system. After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. -
u-2 incident
End date: 05/01/1960
Summary: United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while taking a photographic of the nuclear misiles.
Significance: It caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
End date: 04/20/1961
Summary: It was a dailed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba by Cuban exhiles, covertly financed and sirected by the U.S government. It was a overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government.
Significance: 1200 exhiles armed with American weapons and using American landing craft and hoping that it would overthrow Castro's government. -
Berlin Wall
End date: 11/09/1989
Summary: The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It encircled West Berlin, separating it from East German territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961.
Significance: Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany, acting as a physical barrier that symbolised the political divisions of the time. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
End date: 10/29/1962
Summary: It's confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which it leads to international crisis or depression when they are making the nucleur missile. The U.S spy photographed the nuclear missile sites built by the Soviet Union in Cuba.
Significance: It was a dangerous confrontation between the US and Soviet Union during the Cold War and it was the moment when two superpower came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
End date: 05/11/1995
Summary: It is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to make cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament.
Significance: To prevent pread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
End date: 1991
Summary: It was a political movement for reform within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Significance: It widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his openness policy reform.