Cold War

By FrancescaBerkovich

  • Yalta Conference

  • Victory in Europe Day

  • Patsdam Conference

  • Japanese Surrender

  • Iron Curtain Speech

  • Truman Doctrine

    President Truman stated that anyone who is threatened by the Soviet Union should be able to recieve help from US forces if they do not wish to be a communist country.

  • Marshall Plan

    An American initiative to aid Europe to help them after the end of WWII.
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    Berlin Blockade

  • Berlin Blockade

    The Soviet Union blocked Western Europes railways, roads, and canals to block any communication with democratic Europe.

  • ComeCon Created

  • NATO Established

    A treaty established for purposes of collective security between nations across the atlantic. It was an inter-government alliance system.

  • China becomes Communist

  • Korean War

    UN troops retaliated against the war between South Korea and orth Korea
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    Domino Theory

  • KGB Established

  • Veitnam Divided

  • Domino Theory

    A theory that a politcal situation in one country will effect another country, such as a neighboring one. It can domino throughout the world (hence issue between democraxy and communism).

  • Warsaw Pact Established

    A collective alliance between communist countries. It was a military reaction to Western Europes integrating into NATO.

  • Vietnam War

    fought between North Vietnam, which supported the Soviet Union as well as China with communsit allies, against south Vietnam which was supported by the US.

  • Suez Crisis

  • Sputnik

    The first artificial Earth sattelite. The Soviet Union launched it, ultimately winning the "race to space" with the US.

  • Fidel Castro takes over Cuba

  • U2 Spy Plane Incident

  • First Man in Space

    Yuri Gagarin (from Soviet Union). His spacecraft completeled an orbit of Earth.

  • Bay of Pigs

    This was a failed military invasion of Cuba carried out by the CIA.

  • First American in Space

    Alan B. Sherpard goes up and does not orbit, he comes back down.
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    Nicaraguan Revolution

  • Berlin Wall Built

    A barrier that divided Berlin constructed by the German Democratic Republic to assure no intermixture between Communism and Democracy.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 Day confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over missiles deployed in Cuba.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Six Day War

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    Six Day War

  • Tet Offensive

  • Apollo II Lands on the Moon

    Tje first space fight between the US and Soviet Union. Neil Armstrong was the first man to touchdown on the moon although Russia had the first man in space.

  • Yom Kippur War

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    Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Iran-Contra Affair

  • Perestroika

    A politcal movement for reformation of with the Communist PArty of the Soviet Union

  • Mikhail Gorbachev Takes Office

    He was the general secreatary of the communist party of the soviet union

  • Tiananmen Square

  • Poland Becomes Independent

  • Hungary Becomes Independent

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Wall falls and reunites the West and East sides

  • Fall of Communism in Czech, Romania, and Bulgaria

  • Germany Reunites