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Yalta Conference
A meeting during the end of World War II between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in which they discussed how to re-establish the nations of Europe. -
The Cold War Video Part 1
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Cold War Illustration 1
This picture depicts enmity and discord between the Soviet Union and the United States.The eagle represents the US while the bear represents the Soviet Union. -
The Cold War Video Part 2
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Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy in which the United States would help support countries that were against communism. -
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Berlin Airlift
The transfer of goods into West Berlin through American and British planes during the time of a Soviet blockade of West Berlin. -
NATO
Abbreviation for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defensive alliance between the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Italy and Portugal. -
Establishment of West Germany
The United States, Great Britain and France united their zones of Germany to form West Germany known as the Federal Republic of Germany -
People's Republic of China
Mao Zedong beats the Nationalists and forms a Communist government in China -
Nuclear Arms Race
The nuclear arms race was a race between the US and USSR to have more nuclear weapons than the other nation. Statistical Info chart on the left showing the number of warheads possessed by the US and the Soviet Union from 1950 all the way to 2010. -
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Korean War
North Korea invades South Korea leading to a 3-year war with the Soviet Union and China helping the North Koreans and mainly the United States and United Nations helping South Korea. Ends in a ceasefire. -
Korean War Casualties
The number of casualties during the Korean War. -
Warsaw Pact
A defensive alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies comprised of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. -
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Vietnam War
War between Communist-North Vietnam and Nationalist-South Vietnam in which the United States aided South Vietnam against the Communists. -
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
A revolt in which the Hungarian army overthrew the Hungarian-Soviet government and formed a new government under Imre Nagy. The revolution was later stopped by the Soviet army and a pro-Soviet government was installed. -
Cold War Tech: Sputnik
The Soviet Union launches their first successful artificial satellite. The launch of Sputnik into space marks the beginning of the space race which led to the US trying to make better space accomplishments than the Soviet Union for about 20 years. It also led to the beginning of the world's expansion into space. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, also known as Fidel Castro was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. He studied law at the University of Havana. in 1959 he established the first Communist state in the west by overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro improved his country's education system and public health care. He is a friend of the Soviet Union and an enemy of the United States. -
U-2 Incident
The Soviet Union shot down an American spy plane, U-2 and captured its pilot Francis Gary Powers forcing the United States to admit espionage activities. -
Sino-Soviet Split
China splits with the Soviet Union due to differing views on Communism. China wants to be the leader spreading communism throughout the world. -
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University and later served in the navy. He was an elected Congressman and Senator before he became 35th President of the United States. At 43, he became the youngest and the first Catholic US President. During his stay in office, he survived the Cuban Missile and the Bay of Pigs Invasion crisis. On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The United States Central Intelligence Agency trained anti-Castro Cuban exiles. These CIA trained exiled invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs on April 1961 and failed. -
Berlin Wall
The Soviet Union built a wall in between West Berlin and East Berlin to stop East Germans from defecting to West Germany. Map of Berlin with the Berlin Wall dividing West and East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Upon discovery of Soviet missiles being built in Cuba, United States instituted a naval blockade of Russian ships. US demanded Soviets to remove the missiles with a promise not to invade Cuba which the Soviets agreed to. -
Cold War Illustration 2
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was born on December 12, 1906 at Kamenskoye, Ukraine, Russia. He studied at Kamenskoye Metallurgical Institute at graduated in 1935 as an engineer. He held various government positions under Stalin and Khrushchev and in 1964 became the President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Brezhnev led the Soviet Union in building up its defense and military strength and in surpassing the United States in space race. He approved the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 -
Stop Communism!
US propaganda during the time of the Vietnam War. -
Prague Spring
A period of reform in the capital of Czechoslovakia when the Czech Communist leader Alexander Dubcek loosened controls of censorship in the nation. -
First Manned Moon Landing
The United States brings the first humans onto the moon with Apollo 11. The event was considered a peak in the space race. -
Soviet Union Propaganda
Propaganda of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Cold War Europe Map
A map of Europe in the 1970s during the Cold War. -
SALT I Treaty
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks where Nixon and Brezhnev agreed to limit the number of missiles each country would possess. -
Khmer Rouge control of Cambodia
The Khmer Rough took control of Cambodia and set up a Communist government. Cambodian genocide occurred to transform the county into a Communist nation. -
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
A joint space program between the United States and Soviet Union during the period of foreign policy detente. -
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Iranian Revolution
Iran's Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini forced the Iranian people to riot against the Western backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi forcing him to flee. Khomeini established an Islamic State of Iran -
Communist regime established in Afghanistan
A coup in Afghanistan known as the Saur Revolution led to the rule of the communist regime of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. -
Cold War Illustration 3
This picture illustrates the fighting of the two sides with the nuclear weapons in the background. It depicts the big role that the nuclear weapons play in war. -
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Nicaraguan Civil War
The Communist Sandinistas toppled the US-funded Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza which led to a fight between the Sandinistas and the US-backed Contras. The Contras are Nicagaruan anti-Communist forces. -
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Salvadoran Civil War
A fight between the military government of El Salvador and the Marxist guerilla rebel group Farabundo Marti National LIberation Front -
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Boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The United States did not participate in the the 1980 Summer Olympics held at Moscow. -
Music Video: Depeche Mode- People Are People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzGnX-MbYE4 The song reflects the Cold War because it is asking why should people hate each other when they have done nothing wrong and have not even met. The only reason that they have this hate is the difference in their color and their belief.
