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Dwight d einsehower
American politician and General who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
lyndon jhonson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 -
ronald regan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 -
Richard nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office -
gerald ford
A political leader of the twentieth century who served as president from 1974 to 1977. A prominent Republican in Congress, -
jimmy carter
is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. -
China's civil war.
fought from 1927 to 1950. Because of a difference in thinking between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang. -
francais gary powers
American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident -
Boris yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. -
when did gorbachev come to power
Mikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet -
WWII ends
The war is over. -
United Nations
International Organization. Came about in 1945. 51 countries committed to keeping world peace. -
Churchill's iron curtain speech
Churchill gives his speech about russia being an iron curtain and if we dont take a stand then communism from russia will obtain every country. -
george bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. -
Marshall plan
american intiative to aid western europe giving them 13 billion dollars in economic support. -
Truman Doctrine
American forieghn policy created to counter soviet geopolitical hermogony. -
Nato
military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II -
Berlin airlift
Bringing food to soviet people who were stuck behind the iron curtain. -
USSR'S first Atomic bomb
called "first lighteing" b at a test sight in kazakhstan ussr detonates thier first atomic bomb. -
mad plan
s a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike -
Korean war
the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
end of the korean war
the war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953. -
H bomb
weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes -
Stalins death
he died of a massive heart attack on March 5, 1953. -
when did fidel castro take over cuba
established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista -
seato
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
vietnam war
was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
eisenhower doctrine
a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East." -
sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which was the first satellite to be placed in orbit. -
warsaw pact
collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Bay of pigs
1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles -
cuban missle crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
jhin f keneedy
A Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century; he was president from 1961 to 1963. His election began a period of great optimism in the United States. -
jfk shot and killed
dallas texas -
nasa's first moon landing
One Giant Leap For Mankind -
salt- first strategic plan limitations treaty
The development of an ABM system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating by shooting down incoming missiles. -
soviets invade afgnistan
At the end of December 1979, Soviet troops moved into Afghanistan, setting off an international crisis. The situation had been building since April 1978, when a coup led by the pro-Soviet Armed Forces Military Council installed a Marxist government under the leadership of Noor Mohammed Taraki. Rebel groups resisted, and fighting intensified. In February 1979, rebel forces kidnapped U.S. -
miricale on ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. The United States national team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the Soviet Union national team, which had won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games. -
us boycott of the ummer olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan -
star wars- strategic defense initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
when did soviets leave afganistan
from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989 -
tiananmen square
a large plaza in central Beijing, China: noted especially as the site of major student demonstrations in 1989 suppressed by the government. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic -
berlin wall falls
November 1989 marks the infamous fall of the Berlin Wall. -
collapse of the soviet union
collapse of communism definition. A stunning series of events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor
