Cold War Project

  • Ending of WWII

    Ending of WWII

    Japan's surrender ended the 6 year war
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    Intergovernmental organization
  • Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Presented a post-war speech called "The Sinews of Peace"
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Was established to tell that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    It was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    During post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control.
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • U.S.S.R.'s Atomic Bomb First Test

    U.S.S.R.'s Atomic Bomb First Test

    At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.”
  • MAD Plan

    MAD Plan

    Mutually Assured Destruction Plan = used high destructive weapons
  • China's Civil War

    China's Civil War

    Was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North
  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb

    Nuclear fusion and hydrogen explosion
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    34th President
  • Stalin's Death

    Stalin's Death

    Died of a massive heart-attack
  • End of the Korean War

    End of the Korean War

    All countries involved agreed to an armistice
  • SEATO

    SEATO

    SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Defense treaty among 8 communist states of Central and Eastern Europe
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine

    A country could resist American aid if threatened by armed forces
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    First artificial Earth sattelite
  • Castro takes over Cuba

    Castro takes over Cuba

    Overthrew to become leader
  • Francis Gary Powers

    Francis Gary Powers

    American pilot who had his U-2 plane shot down
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Invasion of south Cuba
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    A barrier that divided Berlin from the Germany Democrat Republic
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. because of deployed missiles in Cuba
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam
  • JFK Assassination

    JFK Assassination

    He was killed in Dallas, TX
  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson

    36th president
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    35th president
  • Richard Nixon

    37th president
  • NASA's first moon landing

    NASA's first moon landing

    Neil Armstrong walked on the moon for the first time in American history
  • SALT

    SALT

    Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford

    38th president
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter

    39th president
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Sent thousands of troops to overtake the country
  • U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics

    U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics

    Actions to protest the Soviet Union invasion
  • Miracle on Ice

    Miracle on Ice

    American pop culture name for hockey's league in the olympics
  • Ronald Reagen

    Ronald Reagen

    40th president
  • STAR WARS

    STAR WARS

    Use a ground-based and space-based system to prevent nuclear attacks
  • Gorbachev Came to Power

    Gorbachev Came to Power

    General power of the communist party of the Soviet Union
  • George Bush Sr.

    George Bush Sr.

    41st president
  • Soviets Leave Afghanistan

    Soviets Leave Afghanistan

    Leader Colonel Boris Gromov retreated troops
  • Tiananmen Square

    Tiananmen Square

    Pro-democracy movement and portest symbol
  • Berlin Wall Falls

    Berlin Wall Falls

    Took almost 3 decades for the wall to be "torn down"
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin

    First president of the Russian Federation
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Divided into 15 different countries