Cold War

By Sean Wong

  • Suez Canal

    ・It is an artificial sea water route in Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea through the isthmus of Suez and separates Africa and Asia.
    ・The original canal was characterized by a single-lane waterway with a place to pass the Bala Bypass and Great Bitter Lake. It included a noroch system where seawater flows freely, according to the plan of Alois Negreli.
    ・The project was funded with interest investment certificates issued exclusively to Egyptian entities and individuals.

  • Red Scare

    Red Scare is a widespread fear of the potential rise of communism, anarchism, or other left-wing ideology by society and the state.
    ・The first Redscare that took place immediately after World War I developed around perceived threats from the American labor movement, the anarchist revolution, and political radicalism.
    ・The social incitement of anarchists and the left exacerbated national, social and political tensions.
    start from 1917

  • Truman Doctrine

    ・Truman has established that the United States provide political, military and economic support to all democracies that are threatened by external or internal authoritarian forces.
    ・Truman's doctrine was born from President Truman's speech before the joint meeting of Congress on March 12, 1947.
    ・It used to depend on British aid.
    End day: February 21 1947

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    ・1,400 Cuban exiles began a failed invasion in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro took power in an armed rebellion that defeated Cuban dictator Fulhencio Batista.
    ・It was aimed at overthrowing Fidel Castro's communist government.
    ・The invasion army was defeated by the Cuban Revolutionary Army within three days and surrendered on April 20. Most of the surrendered troops were publicly interrogated and put in Cuban prisons.

  • Space Race

    ・The space race was a 20th century competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, the two rivals of the Cold War, to achieve excellent space flight capabilities.
    ・The space race brought the pioneering launch of artificial satellites, the robot space probe to the various planets and ultimately human space flight to the moon. When the Soviet Union achieved its first successful satellite launch, the competition attracted the attention of the West with the "Sputnik Crisis"

  • Berlin Wall

    ・It was a protected concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It surrounded West Berlin and separated from the territory of East Germany.
    ・The construction of the wall was started by the Democratic Republic of Germany (Eastern Germany GDR) on August 13, 1961.
    ・The castle blocked West Berlin from East Germany, including East Berlin.It became a physical symbol of the "iron curtain" that separated Western Europe and the East block during the Cold War.