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Francis Gary Powers
He was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. He died August 1, 1977 in Encino, Los Angeles, California. -
Winston Churchhill
Winston Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. -
Iron Curtain
It was a boundary dividing Europe into 2 separate areas at the end of WWII till the end of the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
The host country is the Soviet Union. also known as the Crimea Conference and code named the ArgAnaut Conference, held from 4 to 11 February, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar -
The Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. It happened from 1947-1991 -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries. -
Korean War
The Korean war, also known as the forgotten war. The war began on June 25th, 1950 and ended July 27th, 1953. It was a war between North and South Korea. -
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality. Governing the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, he served as General. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower President
His nickname was "ike". He was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. -
Stalin Dies
Joseph Stalin died March 5th 1953. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Like the Truman Doctrine but for the middle east. Offered economic and military help if communism threatened the middle east. -
Vietcong
A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It was 11.81′ tall. -
John F. Kennedy President
JFK was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 -
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States -
Alliance for Progress
Initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961, aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. -
Lyndon B. Johnson President
Often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States. He was a democratic. -
JFK dies
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas Texas on November 22nd 1963. -
the gulf of tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between the Soviet Union and The United States. The U.S won and had the first landing on July 20, 1969. -
U.S Moon landing
NASA's first moon landing was on July 20th 1969 with Apollo 11. -
Arms Limitation Treaty
The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic -
Gerald Ford President
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977. -
Jimmy Carter President
Presidential term: January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981. He previously was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, after two terms in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. He was the 39th president. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.Insurgent groups are known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war. December 25, 1979 – February 15, 1989. Location was Democratic Republic of Afghanistan -
Tienanmen Square Massacre
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989. -
Berlin Wall falls
Destroyed by: Demolition.
