-
President Theodore Roosevelt felt that an international organization was the best way to prevent any future wars. The US Senate approved the charter in July of 1945, with votes in favor leading 89 to 2. The United Nations came into existence after 29 other nations ratified the charter. -
President Harry Trueman enacted this Doctrine saying that to prevent the spread of communism the United States would provide political, economic, and military assistance to all democratic states under threat from internal authoritarian forces. -
A time when ten motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
The Marshall Plan was a relife plan created by George C. Marshall that had the United States offer $15 billion to help finance the rebuilding of destroyed European cities and infrastructure following WWll. It also sought to open more trading opportunities between Europe and the USA. -
NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several other western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The first military action of the Cold War where the now two separated halves of Korea were fighting with one another. The Northern portion was supported by the Soviet Union, and the southern portion was supported by the USA. In the end, the two split to become separate nations and are still at each other's witts ends. -
It Spaned just over three years.
-
The Space Race was a mad dash between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could send a man into space first as a flex of their nations, military, scientific, and economic strength. This event triggered president Eisenhower to create NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -
The complete runtime of the war.
-
The Bay of Pigs was an invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles who were against Fidel Castro. This invasion was funded by the USA. It did not succeed. -
Lasted three days.
-
What was originally a barbed wire fence was quickly upgraded to brick to separate western-influenced Berlin, Germany's former capital from Soviet-occupied East Berlin. -
Like with most of the Cold War, when the southern portion of Vietnam was under threat of communism the US stepped in. Although due to the American public growing distaste for joining the war the US withdrew its troops in 1973 allowing the Soviet Union to take control ending the war in 1975. -
The time period when the US became involved in the Vietnam War.
-
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan under the pretense of the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty. They were however quite unfriendly as they immediately and forcefully invaded Kabul the capital of Afghanistan. This event shattered the relationship the Soviets had developed with Afghanistan; this will eventually become a large part of why the soviet union dissolved. -
The complete time from when the Soviets first invaded to when they eventually left Afghanistan.
-
On a global scale, the fall of the Berlin wall marked the end of an era, the end of the Cold War. However, on a more personal scale, the fall of the Berlin wall signified the reunion of the German state and the end of communism in eastern Europe.