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Conference between Great Britain, USA, USSR to discuss the result of Europe's postwar reorganization
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Conference between Great Britain, USA, USSR to discuss the result of Europe's postwar reorganization
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Iron Curtain Separation between East and West Germany. Iron means: not easy to get through, a sense of permanency. Term coined by Winston Churchill.
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The Truman Doctrine of containment was a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
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US policy of providing economic aid to help European nations recover from WWII. Was an additional step to preventing the spread of communism. Soviet refuse to participate and prohibit the countries it had control over from joining; was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II.
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A conflict between the Israelis and the Arabs in the Middle East. The United Nations established Israel, a nation under control of Jews, in Palestine in the late 1940s, in territory inhabited by Palestinian Arabs.
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Successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949, in response to a Soviet blockade of all land and canal routes to the divided city
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military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization establishes a system of collective security whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
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Successful effort by the United States and Britain to ship by air 2.3 million tons of supplies to the residents of the Western-controlled sectors of Berlin from June 1948 to May 1949, in response to a Soviet blockade of all land and canal routes to the divided city.
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Mao’s forces were victorious in 1949 and drove the Nationalist government onto the island of Taiwan. Mao announced the victory of communism in China and vowed to establish the constitutional and governmental framework to protect the “people’s revolution.
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conflict between Communist and nonCommunist forces in Korea
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The United States detonates the world’s first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.
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Fidel Castro Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008 Fidel Castro Born to a middle class family, Fidel Castro study law, established the first, and still standing, communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Castro's regime was successful in reducing illiteracy, stamping out racism and improving public health c
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conflict between Communist and nonCommunist forces in Korea
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An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
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the Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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On November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. It had a yield of 1.6 megatons.
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the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball ,weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments.
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U-2 incident The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States.
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The Bay of Pigs was an American attempt to overthrow the newly established communist government in Cuba by training and sending Cuban rebels. The coup ended up in a disaster due to the lack of support by the Americans. The incident was an embarrassment for the U.S. and ultimately led to Castro pleading for Soviet aid (Cuban Missile Crisis)
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
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A period in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to scare the United States.
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A period in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to scare the United States.
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Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to halt "Prague Spring" under their policy of the Brezhnev Doctrine. The US doesn't do anything to prevent the invasion because Czechoslovakia is under the "Iron Curtain".
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SALT I Treaty signed in 1972 between the U.S. and the USSR. This agreement limited the number of missiles in each nation and led to the SALT II discussions and a slowdown of the arms race between the two countries.
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Policy would STOP trying to eliminate communism and win the Cold War, but rather replace it through new initiatives directed toward finding areas of cooperation; Nixon parted with the philosophy of containment, and thought that negotiations and peaceful competition would lead to strengthening of democracies; Détente; Nixon Doctrine.
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the Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.