Cold war

  • 1991 BCE

    1989 - 1991

    Tiananmen square
    berlin wall
    sovient union
    cold war ends
  • Period: 1990 BCE to 1991 BCE

    US/UN Coalition Forces Arrive

    Recognition of North Korean aggression against South Korea.
  • Period: 1988 BCE to 1989 BCE

    Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan

    The final and complete withdrawal of the 40th Army (Soviet Union) from Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989, under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov
  • Ronald Reagan
    1981 BCE

    Ronald Reagan

    Was an American politcian and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989
  • 1980 BCE

    1980 - 1981

    president regan resumes the mission to contain communsim foucusing central american nations
  • 1979 BCE

    1979

    sovient army invades afghanistan
  • 1975 BCE

    1975

    US ends combat in vietnam
  • 1973 BCE

    1973 - 1979

    SALT II talks futher limit manufacture of strategic nuclear arms.
  • SALT
    1972 BCE

    SALT

    The first round of talks began in 1969 under president nixon. After a period of negotiations, the first treaty, known as SALT I, was signed on may 26,1972.
  • Period: 1969 BCE to 1975 BCE

    Vietnamization

    A strategy that aimed to reduce American involvment in the Vietnam War by transferring all military responsibilites
  • 1968 BCE

    1968

    warsaw pact forces enter to the end prague spring and series of anti communist.
  • 1965 BCE

    1965

    US sends 150,000 vietnam to aid the south comabt the north vietnamese communists.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
    1962 BCE

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    US spy plane reported sighting to the soviet nuclear missile base in cuba. the US agreed to not invade cuba
  • M.A.D
    1962 BCE

    M.A.D

    the concept of the mutually assured destruction srtarted to play a major part in the defence policy of the US. President Kennedy's Secretary of Defense. Set out in a speech to the american bar foundation.
  • Berlin Wall
    1961 BCE

    Berlin Wall

    constructed, physically and ideologically sepreating commuinst East germant and east berlin from democratic west.
  • 1961 BCE

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    cuban exiles aided by US government to invade cuba overthrew the communist government, and attempt failed
  • Space Race
    1957 BCE

    Space Race

    USSR launches sputnik and america begins to fear USSR technological advances
  • 1956 BCE

    Suez Crisis

    Britain and French forces invades egypt to seize suez canal invasion fails and egypt supports.
  • 1956 BCE

    Hungarian Revolution

    US supported anti - communist protest is defeated by the USSR who installs communist.
  • Non - Aligned Movement
    1956 BCE

    Non - Aligned Movement

    Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the Non - Aligned Movement as an organization was founded on the Brijuni islans in Yugoslavia in 1956 and was formalized by the signing the Declaration of Brijuni on 19 juny 1956.
  • Warsaw Pact
    1955 BCE

    Warsaw Pact

    Soviet bloc security, military alliance to get NATO formed
  • 1953 BCE

    Korean War

    Russian supported North Korea attacking US supported South Korea and then finish with stalemate
  • 1950 BCE

    1949 - 1950

    USSR begins testing bombs and arms race begins
  • NATO
    1949 BCE

    NATO

    peacetime military alliance between US, Canada, and Western Eurpean Countries collective security.
  • 1948 BCE

    Berlin blockade

    The French, USA, and UK partitions of Germany were merged to west Gremany.
    Russia blockading the entrance to western berlin.
    no access to food supplies and faced starvation.
    There was a Berlin Airlift that helped them exerciseads
  • 1945 BCE

    Red Scare, US/USSR, and Vitenam War

    UN formed, WWII Ends
    US/USSR alliance dissolves
    Red Scare - takes hold of the US/ citizens tried and prosecuted for "supporting communism"
    Vietnam War - president truman supporting france next south vitenam communist north vietnam
  • Truman doctrine
    1945 BCE

    Truman doctrine

    Truman Doctrine - policy of containment towards communism.
  • Marshall Plan
    1945 BCE

    Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan - helps to rebuild Europe
  • Iron curtain
    1945 BCE

    Iron curtain

    The Iron Curtain was the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of the World War ll in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  • Truman
    1945 BCE

    Truman

    At the White House Truman replaced Roosevelt holdovers with old confidants.
  • Mao Zedung
    1917 BCE

    Mao Zedung

    China emerged form a half centruy of revolution as worlds most populous country with Mao Zendung