Cold War Timeline

  • Satellite Nation

    Satellite Nation

    Country that is under heavy influence by another country.
  • United Nations (UN)

    United Nations (UN)

    intergovernmental organization similar to the league of nations.
  • Gulags

    Gulags

    Soviet hard labor camps where most people did not survive.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Pact to assist all nations opposing any communist countries.
  • Containment

    Containment

    The Allies attempt to "contain" and stop communism from spreading.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Plan to aid Western Europe by means of funding.
  • Berlin airlift

    Berlin airlift

    The soviets blockaded the supply routes and the allied forces supported their people by air drops.
  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    Communist leader of Cuba
  • COMECON

    COMECON

    Council of Mutual Economic Assistance to have mutual assistance from satellite nations of the USSR.
  • NATO

    NATO

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an organization of North American and some western European countries based on the north Atlantic treaty of 1949.
  • Eisenhower

    Eisenhower

    President of USA after Truman but before JFK.
  • Khrushchev

    Khrushchev

    Leader of the USSR following Stalin's death.
  • KGB

    KGB

    Secretive group of Soviet spies.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Military alliance of communist nations in response to NATO.
  • De-Stalinization

    De-Stalinization

    The Process of destroying the memory or policies of Joseph Stalin
  • ICBM

    ICBM

    Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that could reach an offshore target.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    First artificial Earth satellite launched by USSR.
  • U2

    U2

    A US spy plane was shot down and found by soviet forces
  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin

    The first man in space from the USSR.
  • Bay Of Pigs

    Bay Of Pigs

    American forces failed to invade the island of Cuba
  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy

    President of USA from 1961-1963. Launched the Bay of Pigs. Assassinated November 22, 1963.
  • Building of the Berlin Wall

    Building of the Berlin Wall

    A wall was built in the middle of Berlin to separate the USSR and USA.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    USSR attempt to bring nuclear ICBMs into communist Cuba.
  • Veitnamization

    Veitnamization

    Withdrawing troops from Vietnam and transferring the power to South Korea
  • Detente

    Detente

    Easing of tensions between countries.
  • SALT

    SALT

    Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
  • Glasnost

    Glasnost

    Policy of openness in the Soviet Union.
  • Perestroika

    Perestroika

    Political movement for the reformation of the communist party in the USSR.
  • Berlin Wall Destroyed

    Berlin Wall Destroyed

    A spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party released a change in his city's relations with the West which meant tearing down the wall.
  • European Union (EU)

    European Union (EU)

    Policy of economic stability of Europeans and the USSR.