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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missile Crisis was a 13-day battle, between the United States and the Soviet Union, in October 1962. It was 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. John F. Kennedy (president)eased american fears about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was a major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Executed on October 9th, 1967, age 39. -
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Served as a republican senator until May 2, 1957. He convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, for espionage, which skyrocketed his investigations for anti-American activities by U.S citizens. Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were passing along information about the atomic bombs to the Soviet Union. They were executed on June 19, 1953. -
Truman Doctrine
A United States policy to stop Soviet Union expansion,
the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United, and to garuntee immediate economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey. States gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. This lead to the creation of the United Nations, a group put together to help countries talk about their conflicts calmly to help prevent future wars. -
NATO Treaty signed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Berlin Blockade
During WW11 in Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. This lead to the making of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was up from 1961 to 1989, and was torn down -
The Korean War
Conflict between Communtists and non-Communists. At the end of WWII, Korea was separated through the 38th parallel, into Soviet (N. Korea) and U.S. (S. Korea) zones of occupation. During 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 38th parallel was a demilitarized zone, that forbade military instalations, activity, or personnel. -
Warsaw Pact
was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. 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. It was signed on July 27 1953. -
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Vietnam War (2)
Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Took office: 19 February 1951. Draft lottery: On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950. -
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Veitnam War
Occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This 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. 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. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506. Nikita Khrushchev was a Russian politician, led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. Following World War II and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Kingdom's status as a superpower was destroyed; for the duration of the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union came to be the top superpowers. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion (2)
July 29, 1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the United States agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. General Douglas macAurthur was working for JFK while all of this happened. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam -
Salt Agreement
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Glasnost
A policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is 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 bo -
Communism Collapses
Ronald Reagan bankrupted the soviet union with the arms race; through the increased production of nuclear forces, the Soviet union had to match our spending, but couldn’t afford it, and collapsed. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
(3) Communism Collapses
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR and SU or shortened to the Soviet Union, was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. -
(2) Communism Collapses
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. Détente is often used in reference to the general easing of the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente a "thawing out" or "un-freezing" at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War.
