Cold War

The renewed conflict and the end of Cold War

1980 BCE

They planned more arms limitation but the USA refused to sign the SALT 2 agreement (in 1979) after the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president of the USA and the period of détente ended. The USA developed nuclear missiles which could be launched from almost anywhere. They also developed the Strategic Defence Initiative for using laser weapons to shoot down soviet missiles from space. The USSR could not afford the increasing militar spending

Cuban missile crisis

1962 BCE

Since Fidel Castro came to power, the United States has severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Fidel began to have relations with the urs, due to the geographic situation of Cuba, the urs decided to put missiles in its coasts pointing to the United States. This provoked that the united states blocked the arrival of the missiles to Cuba, after an agreement the urs removed the missiles of Cuba and the United States did not put them in turkey

Vietnam War

1954 BCE

Vietnam was partitioned into the communist North and the democratic South. Laos and Cambodia were set up as independent states.The Truman doctrine dictated that the USA would assist the new democracy of South Vietnam. During the cold war, the USA was terrified that many other countries might become communist and help the USSR. The domino theory of communism says that if one country is knocked over by the communist threat, soon all the nearby countries will become communist as well.

The Cold War

1946 BCE

The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in
the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc
(the Soviet Union and its satellite states).

Alliances of the Cold War

1946 BCE

The main military alliances during the Cold War were NATO, run by the Americans, and the Soviet Pact of Warsaw.

Origin of the conflict

1945 BCE

The Cold War was a political, economic, social, military, informative, scientific, and sporting confrontation initiated at the end of World War II between the so-called West-capitalist bloc led by the United States, and the East- ) Led by the Soviet Union.

Origin of the term

1945 BCE

In the specific sense of pointing out the geopolitical tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, the term Cold War has been attributed to US financier and presidential advisor Bernard Baruch. On April 16, 1947, Baruch gave a speech in which he said: Let's not fool ourselves: we are immersed in a cold war »