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Cold War Events
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Berlin Airlift
The Soviets blockacked rail roads, and water acces to Allied- controlled areas of Berlin. The U.S. and the U.K responded by food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. It motivated the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
U.S President: Harry Truman
Soviet Leader: Joseph Stalin -
Korean War
It started as a civil war between north and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea attempting to to unify the country under the north's government. It was not simply a border dispute, many feared it was the first step in a communist campaign to take over the world. It made a wider conflict which caused the Cold War.
U.S. President: Harry Truman
Soviet Leader: Joseph Stalin -
Creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Warsaw Pact, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the aid of any member attacked by an outside force.
U.S. President: John F. Kennedy
Soviet Leader: Nikita Khrushchev -
Sputnik
Sputnik is the first successful satellite launched by the Soviet Union. The successful launch shocked many American experts and citizens in the US., who had hoped the U.S would accomplish this scientific advancement first. The fact that the Soviets were successful in their launching brought fear to the U.S. military who had fallen behind on developing new technology.
U.S. President: Dwight Einsenhower
Soviet Leader: Nikita Khrushchev -
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro overthrew dictatorial President Fulgencio Batista. He drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista. His regime was considered a great threat toAmerican interests that secret American operatives even tried to have him assassinated. They cut strong ties with the U.S. and developed links with the Soviet Union.
U.S. President: John F. Kennedy
Soviet Leader: Fidel Castro -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
After WW II ended, the Allied Powers divided Germany into four parts. East Germans fled to west Berlin which was democratic.To stop Germans of fleeing t the West,the communist East German authorites built a wall that encircled West Berlin entirely. People living in East Germany were unable to leave. Many families were separated by the Wall and died trying to get over it.
U.S. President: John F. Kennedy
Soviet Leader: Nikita Khruschev -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. The U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. The Cuban Missle Crises was the only time where 'hot war' could have broken out.
U.S. President: John F. Kennedy
Soviet Leader: Nikita Khrushchev -
Disarmament Agreements
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed to cut back the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. It was was an arms race that ended when the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the Cold War in 1991.
U.S. President: Richard Nixon
Soviet Leader: Leonid Brezhnev -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was fought between communist North Vietnam and the government of Southern Vietnam. The North was supported by communist countries such as the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The South was supported by anti-communist countries, primarily the United States. The United states lost the Vietnam war. They fought for 20 years.
US President: Dwight Eisenhower
Soviet Leader: Ho Chi Minh -
Gorbachev's Reforms
Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary program swept communist governments throughout Eastern Europe from power and brought an end to the Cold War. When he came into power he began to establish a series of reform programs that was designed to save an empire that was declining. His new approach ended the Cold War.
U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
Soviet Lader: Mikhail Gorbachev -
Soviet Invasion of Afganistan
The Soviet Afghanistan War was fought between Afghanistan rebels called the Mujahideen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government. The United States supported the Afghanistan rebels in order to try and overthrow the communist government and to prevent the spread of communism. It marked the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern Bloc.
U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
Soviet Leader: Leonid Brezhnev -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was torn down because East Berlin wanted to be one free country with West Berlin. The Soviet Union was losing their hold on East Germany. Much of the wall was torn down by people chipping away as they celebrated the end to a divided Germany.
U.S. President: Ronald Reagan
Soviet Leader: Mikhail Gorbachev
