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The Truman Doctrine
A policy set by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
The Marshall Plan
The American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Creation of NATO
Known as The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
The Korean War
It was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. -
Vietnam War
This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries. The fall of Saigon on 30, April 1975. -
U-2 Spy Plane Controversy (Francis Gary Powers)
U-2 incident was during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay of Pigs armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the revolutionary leftist government of President Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force were defeated by the Cuban armed forces, under the command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro, within three days. -
Berlin Wall Goes Up
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis was known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis, in the USSR—was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. CMC is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
U.S. Sends a Man to the Moon
The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. -
The USSR Invades Afghanistan
The USSR invasion of Afghanistan was a nine-year war during the Cold War fought by the Soviet Army and the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen received wide military and financial support from Pakistan, also receiving direct and indirect support by the United States and China. -
U.S. Invades Grenanda
Matter of weeks U.S. won. -
German Reunification and Fall of Berlin Wall
There had been signs that the Communist block was weakening, but the East German Communist leaders insisted that East Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution. The Berlin Wall was eventually chipped away, into smaller pieces. The pieces have become collectibles and are stored in both homes and museums. After the Berlin Wall came down, After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. That same evening of December 25, 1991 at 7:32 P.M. the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolor. The dissolution of the world's first and largest Communist state also marked an end to the Cold War.
