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Russian Communist Revolutions
The Revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and year of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the weak Tsar Nicholas II. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Making Russia (Soviet Union) become the first Communist state. This event connects to the cold war because the U.S and Soviet Union created two divided sections. They did that because they were rivals and didn't agree. -
Treaty of Versailles
This forced Germany to admit all guilt for WWI and required them to pay large amounts of money in war reparations. After this Germans were very vulnerable and upset which caused the rise of Hitler. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was supposed to stop countries from attacking other countries, but it failed to so. It did nothing when Japan invaded Manchuria, Because of this failure to do anything, Germany decided to test the organization out for themselves. German soldiers were ordered by Hitler to march into the Rhineland with empty rifles, to see if the French would do anything and to retreat if the French army attacked. France and the League of Nations did nothing, and Hitler's plan was a success. -
MAD
Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy. When the Soviet Union achieved nuclear equality with the United States, the Cold War had entered a new phase. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong announced the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, which broke out immediately following World War II. This event connects to the cold war because the PRCs foreign policy went through the cold wars several distinctive stages. -
Yalta Conference
The conference at Yalta brought together the Big Three Allied leaders. Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe's post war conditions and how to fix them. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany. This relates to the cold war because the Yalta Conference helped lead to the Cold War by giving the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union was given the right to control Eastern Europe -
United Nations
The United Nations quickly became a Cold War battleground between communist and non-communist countries. As the Cold War developed, most of the nations of the world found themselves divided into two camps: the Western powers, led by the United States; and the communist powers, led by the Soviet Union.The united nations turned into the cold war by the communist and non-communist countries conflicts. -
Nuremberg Trials
After the Holocaust, some people responsible for crimes during that time were brought to trial. The location these trials took place was in Nuremberg, Germany. The Judges were from the Allied Powers: Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and United States for 22 major nazi criminals. -
General Assembly
Section of UN, all the members in the UN, discusses world issues, votes on actions, and controls the UN budget. During the cold war, the U.S managed to win important votes in the general assembly. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The term Iron Curtain was used to explain the tension between countries that was a major cause of the Cold War. Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he said that Russia had built an "Iron Curtain" separating Eastern Europe from Western Europe. Churchill meant that the Soviet Union had separated the Eastern European countries from the West so that no one knew what was going on behind the “curtain.” -
Baruch Plan
The United States presents the Baruch Plan for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations. The failure of the plan to gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 Billion in aid to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the French Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing fuel and food. This increased up the cold war tensions by making USSR look cruel to the rest of the world. -
Truman Doctorine
An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Announced to congress by Harry S. Truman. -
Nuclear Deterrent
Deterrence theory holds that nuclear weapons are intended to deter other states from attacking with their nuclear weapons, through the promise of possibly mutually assured destruction (MAD). The theory gained increased fame as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. -
NATO Creation
NATO's primary purpose was to bring together and strengthen the Western Allies military just incase of a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Another purpose was to defend each other from communism taking control of their countries. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph McCarthy publicly stated that 205 communist had infiltrated the U.S Government, without really any proof. This led the "2nd Red Scare" also known as McCarthyism.This speech connects to the cold war by indicating the communist victories and America wins and defeats the cold war. -
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between South Korea and communist North Korea. It was the first major conflict of the Cold War as the Soviet Union supported North Korea and the United States supported South Korea. The war ended with little resolution.The main role for Korea in the Cold War was as a setting for a conflict between the communists and the West. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is the name given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. The main purpose of it was It was the Communist reaction to NATO. NATO and Warsaw never waged the war against each other Europe. -
Sputnik Launched
The space race grew out of the Cold War between U.S and the Soviet Union. The race began because both countries wanted to be able to fire weapons across the ocean, put satellites into space to spy on each other, and to show scientific excellence by putting a man on the moon. Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union, and put them ahead in the space race. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Cuba under Fidels rule went through significant changes that received lots of attention. During the Cold War, Castro shared the same ideological views with the Soviet Union, calling himself a "Marxist-Leninist" and having relations with Marxist-Leninist States. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The United States Government (CIA) sent trained Cuban exiles (1,400) to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. They failed miserably. The invasion is a part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from spreading in America. -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
The communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short crisis in U.S., and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and divided West and East Germany for nearly three decades. The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic, capitalist bloc. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two countries came closest to nuclear war. -
U.S sends troops to Vietnam
The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam.The Vietnam War pinned the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its ally, the United States. The war was escalated by the Cold War between the United States an the Soviet Union. -
Apollo 11
The Apollo 11 mission was one of the most significant events in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the moon (U.S). They landed on July 20 1969, which put them in the lead for the space race. This race was known as the cold war because it was a race between two of the worlds strongest countries. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students that was during a mass protest against the Vietnam War by members of the Ohio National Guard. -
SALT (I and II)
SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. The cold war issued the arms of control. -
Fall of Saigon
The city of Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after North Vietnams communist leader. The Fall of Saigon marked not only the end of the Vietnam War, but the beginning of Communist Rule in Vietnam. -
Deng Xiaoping
After Maos death Deng took power. Chinese communist leader, who was the most powerful figure in the People’s Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997. He abandoned many conservative communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy. -
Pope John Paul II
John Paul II has long been credited with being involved in the bringing down of communism in Catholic Eastern Europe by being the spiritual inspiration behind its downfall and a spark for a peaceful revolution in Poland. The efforts of anti-communist leaders, such as Pope John Paul II did not make the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable. However, these leaders did hasten the end of the Cold War and the fall of Soviet communism, particularly in Eastern Europe. -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher became Britain's Conservative Party leader and in 1979 was elected prime minister, the first woman to hold the position. Americans primarily remember Thatcher for her collaboration with President Reagan in countering the Soviet threat at the end of the Cold War era. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
In the middle of the Cold War, the Soviets Army invaded Afghanistan. The Soviets wanted to preserve the Communist government that they had established. Two groups known together as the mujahideen, and a smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement signed by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers (US, USSR, UK, etc) that pledged their cooperation in stoping the spread of nuclear technology. Although the it did not prevent nuclear proliferation, in the context of the Cold War, the treaty was a major success for supporters of arms control because it set a example for international cooperation between nuclear and non-nuclear states to prevent proliferation. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the end of Cold War began to spread across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West Berlin. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR (East Berlin Capital) were free to cross the country's borders. -
Lech Walesa
Retired Polish politician and labour activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union. President of Poland (1990-1995). Solidarity gave rise to an extensive, non-violent, anti-communist social movement. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism. -
START (I and II)
START I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a two side treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. START II was a treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed by United States President George H. W.
