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U.S. and U.N. take on North Korean Forces
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which the UN force, led by the United States fought for the South and China fought for the North. The North was also supported by the Soviet Union. -
Ivy Mike Thermonuclear Test
The first full scale thermonuclear test in the U.S. It was a successful staged fusion bomb. -
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his allies against the U.S. backed authoritarian government of Cuba. Castro replaced the governement with a revolutionary socialist state. -
End of the Korean War
After three years of a bloody and frustrating war, the U.S., the People's Republic of China, North Korea and South Korea agreed to an armistace, bringing the Korean War to an end. The Armistace ended America's first expirament with the Cold War concept of "Limited War". -
U.S. sponsored Coup Overthrows Iranian Government
The Iranian Coup was the overthrow of the Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It was orchestrated by the UN and the United States. -
South East Asia Treaty Organization
An international organization for collective defense in South East Asia, created by the South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty. Initially, eight members joined the organization, with their headquarters in Bangkok. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in central and eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO. -
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The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also kown as the Second Indo-China War or the Resistance War aginst America. It was a Cold War Era proxy war. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nation-wide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and it's Soviet imposed policies. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Nazi Regime. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an eliptical, low earth orbit as an expirament shocking most of the world. -
The Iraqi Coup
It resulted in the overthrow of the Hashemite Monarchy. The Iraqi Prime Ministed was assasinated during the Coup, leaving the government in control of the military. -
Kitchen Debate
An impromptu series of exchanges between the U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition. It took place in Moscow. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
East Germany builds the Berlin Wall
As tensions rose between east and west Berlin, East Germany seals off all passage between east and west Berlin. Two days later, they begin construction on the Berlin Wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It began when the Soviet Union installed balistic missiles in Cuba, just off the coast of Florida. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
This event consisted of two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. Amercan Naval might was promptly tested. -
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Signed
It was an international organization for collective defense of Southeast Asia. It was created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact. -
U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam
President Lyndon B. Johnson agrees to send 3,500 U.S. MArines to South Vietnam. This was in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964. -
U.S. Sends Troops to the Dominican Republic
President Lyndon B. Johnson agreed to send more than 22,000 United States Soldiers to the Donincan Republic. He did this is hopes of displacing a communist dictatorship. -
North Korea Captures U.S.S. Peublo
North korean forces attack and cature american vessel. It was employed by the navy as a spy ship. -
Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia
On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. -
Nixon is Elected
President Johnson does not run for the presidency and Richard Nixon Elected President of the USA. This left power in the hands of a very radical anti communism leader. -
Apollo: 11
The apollo 11 module lands on the mooon making Amercans the first people on the moon. This effectively ends the space race for the russians. -
SALT 1
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. -
Nixon Expands war on Communism
President Nixon expands the war on communism to Cambodia to stop spread. Communiat rhetoric reverberated through cambodian political spheres. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side’s violations of the cease-fire. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. During the period between the initiation of the cease-fire and the end of 1973, there were an average of 2,980 combat incidents per month in South Vietnam. -
Chilean Coup
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. Following an extended period of social and political unrest between the center-right dominated Congress of Chile and the elected socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by US President Richard Nixon. -
Egypt and Syria attack Isreal
In 1971, the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said that war became inevitable after no progress towards peace was made. The Israelis had taken land that was not rightfully there's to own and Egypt was irate that Israel took the land and would not return it. -
Nixon Resigns
The scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford. -
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam
Communist forces move into Saigon, where they meet only sporadic resistance. The South Vietnamese forces had collapsed under the rapid advancement of the North Vietnamese.
