Cold War

By jazzi55
  • Arms Race

    Arms Race

    A competition between nations for superiority in the accumulation of weapons between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
  • Yalta Confrence

    Yalta Confrence

    Meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.
  • Potsdam

    Potsdam

    Truman demanded free elections
  • George Kennan

    George Kennan

    Father of Containment
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The US would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations.
  • Division of Germany

    Division of Germany

    Allied powers divided Germany into 4 zones.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    Attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States.
  • Federal Republic of Germany

    Federal Republic of Germany

    Is formally established as a separate and independent nation.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Us plan to aid Western Europe, gave $13 billion dollars.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea
  • Hydrogen Bomb

    Hydrogen Bomb

    More destructive than 1st Atomic weapons
  • Joseph Stalin dies

    Joseph Stalin dies

    Joseph was a Georgia revolutionary, politician, and political theorist
  • Nakita Khrushchev comes to power

    Nakita Khrushchev comes to power

    Politician who led the Soviet Union.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Treaty of friendship, military alliance of Communist Block nations.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    War against America
  • Cuban Revolutionary

    Cuban Revolutionary

    Cuban dictator overthrown.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    anti-Soviet demonstrations in Hungary
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    A competition between the two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the US.
  • U-2 incident

    U-2 incident

    United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
  • Gary Powers

    Gary Powers

    American U-2 pilot.
  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin

    First Man to travel in space
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Guarded concrete barrier.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    It was a thirteen-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    When the Mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and lasted over 9 years.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power

    Former Soviet statesman. Eighth and final leader.
  • INF Treaty

    INF Treaty

    Treaty between United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • German re-unification

    German re-unification

    German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany
  • U.S.S.R Breakup

    U.S.S.R Breakup

    It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н.