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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
It Was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991 -
The United Nations
A group put together to help countries speak about their conflicts to one another to help avoid future world wars. -
Draft
The United States responded with the Berlin Airlift, in which tons of food and supplies were flown in to sustain the population of the besieged city. In light of these events, many Americans believed that actual combat with the Soviet Union was not far away. In response to this threat, President Truman announced on July 20, 1948, that the United States was re-instituting the draft and issued a proclamation requiring nearly 10 million men to register for military service in the next two months. -
Truman Doctrine
A policy made by the United States president Harry Truman to guarantee of immediate economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey, -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a plan focused on the aid of Europe made by the U.S. In order to aid Europe the U.S donated $17 billion dollars to Europe to help them rebuild their scociety after WWII -
The Berlin Blockade
The first major international crisis during the Cold War. Post WWII the Soviet Union blocked raccess to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Korean War
A conflic held between the neighboring North and South Korea. In the end North and South were devided and their hatred for one another still goes on to this day. -
Landing in Inchon
uring the Korean War, U.S. Marines land at Inchon on the west coast of Korea, 100 miles south of the 38th parallel and just 25 miles from Seoul. The location had been criticized as too risky, but U.N. Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur insisted on carrying out the landing. -
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American citizens executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
38th Parallel
A border between North Korea and South Korea, created during the Korean war. -
Armistice
America ended the Korean war by having both sides sign an armistice, an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time. -
Warsaw Pact
A defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
A Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. -
Superpowers
Superpowers are very powerful countries throughout the world. : following World War II and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Kingdom's status as a superpower was greatly diminished; for the duration of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union came to be generally regarded as the two remaining superpowers, dominating world affairs. -
Nikita Khrushchev
a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. -
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. -
John F. Kennedy
Born May 29 1917 and elected January 1 1961 JFK (John F. Kennedy) took up a large role in the Cold War. Kennedy was not only an influencial president with his speeches but he eased american fears about the Cuban Missle Crisis. However Kennedy might have been influencial he was assasinated November 22 1963. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 -
Berlin Wall
A wall constructed by the German Democratic Republid to compleyley cut Berlin off West Berlin from the world. -
Cuban Missle Crisis.
The Missile Scare or the Caribbean Crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. It played out on television worldwide and was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. -
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous counterculturalsymbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture."the most famous photograph in the world" is of Che Guevara used as a symbol of rebellion. Born: June 14, 1928
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Tet Offensive
January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet), a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Detente
Definition: The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. This is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party. -
Salt Agreement
During the late 1960s, the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow. The development of an ABM system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating. -
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States of America. 1981 -
Star Wars.
(Named after Star Wars the movie) The Strategic Defense Initiative - The intent of this program was to develop a anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. 1983 -
Glasnost
When Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-) became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. Within five years, Gorbachev’s revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe from power and brought an end to the Cold War ( -
Communism Collapses
On November 9, 1989, thousands of jubilant Germans brought down the most visible symbol of division at the heart of Europe—the Berlin Wall. For two generations, the Wall was the physical representation of the Iron Curtain, and East German border guards had standing shoot-to-kill orders against those who tried to escape. But just as the Wall had come to represent the division of Europe, its fall came to represent the end of the Cold War. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 . He was the only general secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October Revolution.
