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COLD WAR
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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
SOURCEThe Truman Doctrine was created and sent into power by president Harry Truman in 1947. This doctrine would grant $400 million in military and economic relief for Turkey and Greece. Truman wanted to make sure that those countries kept their freedom and didn't fall to the Soviet Union. -
THE MARSHALL PLAN
SOURCEAs the affects of World War II raged on the European Nations, George C. Marshall developed a plan to provide more aid that the NATO didn't. NATO helped more militarily while the Marshall Plan provided food to the poverty rich countries in famine. -
CREATION OF NATO
SOURCEThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 to provide aid to the European countries just coming out of the war. This was mainly set up by Britain, to really provide military aid to keep the democratic countries in Europe stay democratic countries. -
SOVIETS TEST NUCLEAR BOMB
SOURCEIt Kazakhastan, the Soviet Union built and tested their first nuclear bomb. The scientists constructed fake buildings, homes, and put animals in cages to simulate what affect this would have on humans. The bomb proved a success when everything in the vicinity, including the animals, were incinerated. -
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KOREAN WAR
SourceAs World War II ended, Japan had lost its control over the Korean Peninsula. American administrators then divided up Korea into two countries, a North and a South. North Korea was under communist control, and South Korea was under the United Nations control. -
DEATH OF STALIN
SOURCEJoseph Stalin was the supreme communist ruler the Soviet Union untill his death in the spring of 1953. The problem of the death was who could rule the Soviet Union with the agression and the control that Stalin had. -
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV BECOMES LEADER OF COMMUNIST PARTY
SOURCEAfter the death of the premier leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, the communist party needed someone to fill the large shoes that Stalin left. They selected Nikita Khrushchev to fill those shoes. -
THE WARSAW PACT
SOURCEThe Warsaw Pact was named for being signed in Warsaw was created for communist countries or countries with a communist influence. These countries named that if either of them were attacked by any other force, the Soviet Union would control all military action. -
EISENHOWER DOCTRINE
SOURCEIn the beginning of 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a doctrine with allowed military aid to any Middle Eastern country that needs help to hold off communist agression. -
LAUNCHING OF SPUTNIK
SOURCEWhen the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union just started getting hot, Soviet Union launched Sputnik, which was the first man-made satellite, which was the first feat that either country made in the race. This kicked off the back and forth launching between the Soviet Union and the United States. -
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VIETNAM WAR
SOURCELike the Korean War, the Vietnam War was fought due to a split of Vietnam with communist controlled North, and a democratic South trying to keep their freedom. The United States had a tough time in this incident, but it was never a war because Congress never declared it. -
FIDEL CASTRO COMES INTO POWER
SOURCEAfter the previous dictator was forced to resign in July of 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as the Cuban dictator. He was a leader influenced by communism and soon Cuba became friends with the Soviet Union. -
BAY OF PIGS
SOURCEWhen Fidel Castro took over as the dictator of Cuba, recently elected John F. Kennedy posed an attack to stop the country in falling in the hands of the communists. He launched an invasion in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to take over the communist government and turn it into a United State friendly country. It failed majorly, -
BERLIN WALL GOES UP
SOURCEWith East Germany and West Germany in conflicts, the capital city of Berlin is devided into a East Berlin and a West Berlin. Each government was opposed on letting any of their citizens cross into the other side or let anyone from the other side in, they built a large wall down the middle of Berlin creating the Berlin Wall. -
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
SOURCEIn the October of 1962, American spy planes took pictures of missiles scattered around the island that could be launched into the United States. This created the Cuban Missile Crisis which resulted in 13 days. There was an awful amount of panic throughout the country, -
KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
SOURCEPresident John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas, which was a boost for the Soviet Union. Lyndon B. Johnson took over as the United States president in the middle of the Cold War. -
CHINA BECOMES NUCLEAR POWER
SOURCEOn October 16, 1964, China tested and succeeded to make the country's first Atomic Bomb. This made China the 5th Nuclear Power in the world. This creates more unrest for the United States, because not only the war in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, Cuba, but they now have to worry about China. -
TREATY OF TLATELOLCO
SOURCEIn April of 1967, 33 Latin American countries met in Mexico City to sign an agreement that none of those countries would participate in any nuclear warfare. Cuba did not sign that agreement. -
U.S. PUTS MAN ON MOON
SOURCEThe United States delivered the final blow in the space race by send a man on the moon and then back to Earth safetly. John F. Kennedy proposed that the United States would get to the moon back in 1963, but they made it six years later, unfortunately after his assassination. -
COMMUNISM IN LIBYA
SOURCEIn September of 1969, Muammar Gaddafi overthrows Libya's monarchy government to set up his own dictatorship with the lead from the Soviet Union. This begans that fued between the United States and Libya. -
SALT I AGREEMENTS
SOURCEThe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was signed between United States president Richard Nixon and Soviet Union leader Lioned Brezhnev. This Agreement would hopefully end the disagreements between the United States and the Soviet Union. This ended up taking two times to complete. -
SALT II AGREEMENTS
SOURCENew United States president Jimmy Carter signs the Salt II Agreement with Soviet Union leader Lioned Brezhnev. This Agreement would put a cap on both countries nuclear weapons, which ended a change for a possible nuclear war. -
BOYCOTT OF SUMMER OLYMPICS
SOURCEThe United States and its allies boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980, because of the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan. The United States and 61 other countries boycotted the Olympics that year, and only 81 countries were represented. -
TIANANMEN SQUARE MASSACRE
SOURCEOn June 4, 1989, after long protests from citizens in Tiananmen Square, the Chinese army cleared the square, by disrupting everything in its path, including citizens. Their is an unknown number of deaths, but it crippled the citizens respect for the communist government in China. -
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
SOURCEThe Berlin Wall was built to devide a communist East Germany from a fascist West Germany. On the day of its destruction, the communist party of Eastern Germany allowed their citizens to cross the wall into the other side. This sparked a riot as citizens from both sides broke through the wall. -
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GULF WAR
After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the Gulf War begins, and like all the other wars during this time, the Soviet Union and the United States is involved. -
CALLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
SOURCEThe Soviet Union callapsed surprisinly in December of 1991, with the West have overcome a large victory. The Soviet Union split into 15 seperated nations instead of being the united countries led by the Soviet Union. -
GORBACHEV RESIGNS
SOURCEOn Christmas Day in Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as the Soviet Union leader and that ultimately ruins the Soviet Union and it collapses in the next week. This resignation ends that cold war conflicts between the Soviet Union and the United States.
