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Germany Defeated in WW2
After Hitler's, Germany no longer had a leader to help through the war, so Germany surrendered. -
Germany was Divided into 4 Groups (Level of tension: 60%)
Right after WW2 ending, Winston Churchill ( Leader of Great Britain), Franklin Roosevelt (Leader of USA), and Joseph Stalin (Leader of USSR) broke up Germany into 4 sections, but since Berlin was in Soviet -
WW2 Ended
Japan finally gave up after getting nuked twice by USA. -
US announces "Containment" (Level of tension: 50%)
United States of America announced "Containment" which aimed at stopping the spread of Communism and keeping it "contained" and isolated within its current borders of the USSR instead of spreading to a war-ravaged Europe. -
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Berlin Airlift (Level of tension: 5%)
The West was shipping resources to West Berlin, so they could rebuild the place. Stalin didn't like that the west was constantly coming into his section of Germany. So he blocked off the roads so they couldn't ship the resources to West Berlin. So they had to fly all the resources to them. After a year of this, Stalin opened the roads which ended the Berlin Airlift. -
U.S Puts Marshall Plan Into Action (Level of tension: 20%)
The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $13 billion in aid. The plan was proposed by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall and provided economic aid to European nations, including Germany and Italy, after World War II, which helped to revitalize their post-war economies. The aid was used to rebuild the cities that suffered major losses from war. -
NATO was made (Level of tension: 40%)
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was formed on April 4, 1949. It was created in response to the Soviet Union’s threat of expansion in Europe after World War II. The organization’s primary purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries through political and military means. -
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Korean War (Level of tension: 40%)
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the USSR, invaded the South. The conflict arose after the post-World War II division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea. It ended with an armistice agreement signed on July 27, 1953. -
U.S Make a H bomb (Level of tension: 50%)
the first hydrogen bomb was tested by the United States on November 1, 1952. The bomb vaporized the islet of Elugelab in the Marshall Islands in the North Pacific. Edward Teller and other U.S. scientists developed the first H-bomb and tested it at Enewetak atoll. -
Soviet makes a H Bomb (Level of tension: 45%)
The Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bomb on November 22, 1955 at the Semipalatinsk test site. It had a yield of 1.6 megatons. The weapon was called RDS-37. But Soviet Union TESTED its first hydrogen bomb in 1953. -
Warsaw Pact Created (Level of tension: 75%)
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist countries that was established on May 14, 1955. It was created in response to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955. The Warsaw Pact relied on the theory of collective security - if one member state was attacked, the other member states would help defend it. The Warsaw Pact was dominated by the Soviet Union and included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania as members . -
Hungarian Revolution (Level of tension: 30%)
The Hungarian Revolution was a countrywide revolution against the government's policies caused by the Soviet Union (USSR). The revolution began on October 23, 1956 in Budapest when university students appealed to the civil populace to join them at the Hungarian Parliament. The uprising lasted for 12 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956. The revolution was one of the most significant events in the Cold War and had far-reaching consequences for Hungary. -
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Vietnam War (Level of tension: 45%)
In 1954, France was pulled out of Vietnam because they lost the Indochina War, so after the country split into North and South Vietnam. North was communist (Viet Cong) and South was capitalist and both had wanted one thing to unified Vietnam. But America wanted to prevent the spread of communism, so the USA joined the South Vietnam. In April 30, 1975, Viet Cong launched a large attack on the South Vietnam capital, and won which ended the war. -
Soviet launches Sputnik (Level of tension: 0%)
Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957 by the Soviet Union. Sputnik was launched because of the International Geophysical Year, a solar period that the International Council of Scientific Unions declared would be ideal for the launching of artificial satellites to study Earth and the solar system. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space -
Bay of Pigs Invasion (Level of tension: 45%)
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution. The invasion was covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government. The operation was launched on April 17, 1961, but it quickly became apparent that the Cuban exiles were outnumbered and outgunned by Castro’s forces. The invasion was a complete failure, with most of the exiles being killed or captured. -
Berlin Wall Built (Level of tension: 80%)
The Berlin Wall was built by the USSR during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin. The construction of the wall began on August 13, 1961 -
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Cuban Missile Crisis (Level of tension: 99%)
USSR made missile that were short range missiles so they could not reach USA. but they had alliance with Cuba, and they agreed to hold there missiles on Cuba. This put USA in a panic, so they asked USSR if they could take there missiles away. They agreed to do so if they took there missile that were in Afghan. When USSR went to pick up there missile, USA fired a warning shot at them. 3 people in a submarine had to all agree in order to fire a nuke at USA. but one guy didn't agree so they didn't. -
Partial Test Ban Treaty Signed (Level of tension: 25%)
The Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) banned nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, was signed by the governments of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow on 5 August 1963 before it was opened for signature by other countries. The treaty formally went into effect on 10 October 1963. Since then, 123 other states have become party to the treaty. -
Czech Uprising (Level of tension: %)
Prague Spring of 1968 was a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Another uprising was the Prague Uprising of 1945, which was a partially successful attempt by the Czech resistance movement to liberate the city of Prague from German occupation during the end of WWII. There was also a Prague Uprising in 1848, also known as the Pentecostal Storm, which was an armed conflict that culminated in the revolutionary process in the Czech lands. -
Helsinki Accords (Level of tension: 35%)
The Helsinki Accords, also known as the Helsinki Final Act, was a major diplomatic agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland on August 1, 1975. The accords were signed by all the countries of Europe (except Albania) and by the United States and Canada . The accords were primarily an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe. -
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Soviet-Afghan War (Level of tension: 35%)
The Soviet-Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. The war saw extensive fighting between the occupying forces of the Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen, foreign fighters, and smaller groups. The war was a major drain on Soviet resources and is considered one of the factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
U.S Stars Wars Research (Level of tension: 20%)
The US research program for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as ‘Star Wars,’ was launched by President Reagan on 23 March 1983. The SDI was intended to defend the United States from attack from Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) by intercepting the missiles at various phases of their flight. For the interception, the SDI would require extremely advanced technological systems, yet to be researched and developed. -
Berlin Wall Destroyed (Level of tension: 5%)
The Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, 1989. It was a result of a bureaucratic accident that happened during a press conference by East German officials. The wall fell amid a wave of revolutions that left the Soviet communist bloc teetering on the brink of collapse and helped define a new world order. The fall of the Berlin Wall was globally celebrated because of the peaceful atmosphere that came with it. The Berlin Wall’s fall meant that the Cold War was considered to be over. -
Iron Curtain Collapses (Level of tension: 10%)
The fall of the Iron Curtain refers to the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain came on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Berlin from West Berlin was pulled down. -
Germany is Reunited (Level of tension: 0%)
The German reunification was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991 1. The areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR), commonly called “East Germany,” were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), commonly called “West Germany,” both formed in 1949 after World War II -
Soviet Union Cease to Exist (Level of tension: 20%)
The collapse of the Soviet Union was gradual and inevitable due to the amount of problems from inside and outside the country. While it is impossible to pinpoint a single cause for an event as complex and far-reaching as the dissolution of a global superpower, some of the factors that contributed to the collapse include economic stagnation, political corruption, nationalism, and the arms race with the United States.