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Stalin
He was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, and the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was from Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire. -
Yalta Conference
Was the second wartime metting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Primier Joseph Stali, and U.S President FDR. The three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender and begin plans for a post-war world. -
Mao Zedong
He was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. He was in office from June 19, 1945 – September 9, 1976. He was from China. -
Potsdam Conference
the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminal -
John F. Kennedy
J.F.K. was the 35th President of the USA. He was from Brookline, MA. He was in office January 3, 1947- November 22, 1963. He was an American politician. -
Truman Doctrine
The foreign policy of the United States to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism. His initial request was specifically for $400 million to assist both Greece and Turkey, which Congress approved. The Truman Doctrine was followed by the Marshall Plan later that year. -
Berlin Airlift
Allies partitioned the defeated Germany into a Soviet-occupied zone, an American-occupied zone, a British-occupied zone and a French-occupied zone. Berlin was divided into four sections. In June 1948, the Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons. -
Election of Truman
Election between Harry S. Truman, Thomas E. Dewey, and J. Strom Thurmond. Truman win election with 303 electoral votes and becomes next Democratic President. -
NATO organized
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. This is only partially true. The Alliance’s creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration. -
Chinese Communists win civil war
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang, which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. -
North Korea invades South Korea
the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Domino Theory
A U.S. foreign policy beginning in the early 1950s, held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states.The United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam. The American failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of a global impact than had been assumed by the domino theory. -
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms (1953-1961) to ease the tensions of the Cold War. 34th President. -
Overthrow of Iranian Govt.
The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran. Iran remained a solid Cold War ally of the United States until a revolution ended the Shah’s rule in 1979. Mosaddeq came to prominence in Iran in 1951 when he was appointed premier. -
Nikita Khrushchev
He was a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. He is from Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire. -
Dien Ben Phu
The French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold besieged by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days. The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva. -
SEATO formed
Having been directed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to put together an alliance to contain any communist aggression in the free territories of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, or Southeast Asia in general, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles forges an agreement establishing a military alliance that becomes the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. -
Warsaw Pact formed
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member state. The treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
Hungarian Revolt
he problems in Hungary began in October 1956, when thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. In response, Communist Party officials appointed Imre Nagy as the new premier. Nagy tried to restore peace and asked the Soviets to withdraw their troops. The Soviets did so, but Nagy then tried to push the Hungarians to withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact. -
Sputnik launched
Was the first artificial satellite. The soviet Union launched it. It had a diamater of 22 inches and weighed about 184 pounds and circled earth once every hour and 36 minutes, traveling at 18,000 miles an hour. -
Cuba falls to Castro
Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista flees the island nation. As celebration and chaos intermingled in the Cuban capitol of Havana, U.S. policymakers debated how best to deal with the radical Castro and the ominous rumblings of anti-Americanism in Cuba. -
Mercury Program
The United States' first manned space flight project was successfully accomplished in a 4 2/3 year period. In this period, six manned space flights were accomplished as part of a 25-flight program. These manned space flights were accomplished with complete pilot safety and without change to the basic Mercury concepts. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
The development proved a source to the United States given Cuba’s proximity to the United States and brought Cuba into the Cold War. In March 1960, President Eisenhower directed the (CIA) to develop a plan for the invasion of Cuba and overthrow of the Castro regime. The CIA organized an operation in which it trained and funded a force of exiled counter-revolutionary Cubans. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. An estimated 530 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" on July 20, 1969. He was the first man to step foot on the moon. -
Berlin Wall
Rhe Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989. -
China Invades India
China attacked India. Provoked by a territorial dispute and tensions over Tibet, the war was brief and China emerged victorious. However, the war still casts a long shadow over Sino-Indian relations and, despite substantial improvement over the years, continues to influence the bilateral relationship in three principal ways. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The 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, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
He was the 36th President from November 22. 1963- January 20, 1969. He was from Stonewall, Texas. He was a President, Vice President, US Representative, US Senator, Senate Majority Leader, Senate Minority Leader, and Senate Majority Whip. -
Kennedy Assassination
November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder. Oswald was an avowed communist who spent three years living in the Soviet Union. He allegedly shot the President from a window in the Texas School Depositroy in Dealey Plaza. Two days later, while Oswald was being transferred between prison facilities, Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and fired a bullet into Oswald. People are not sure if Oswald actually killed Kennedy. -
Leonid Brezhnev
He was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, from 1964 until his death in 1982. He is from the Russian Empire. -
Czech uprising
Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. The liberal reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek were repealed and “normalization” began under his successor Gustav Husak. -
Richard M. Nixon
He was the 37th President from January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974. He is from Yorba Linda, Califorina. He was also a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States. -
Nixon Goes to China
President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. Nixon’s historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Watergate
Burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. They had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. Nixon knew about the Watergate espionage operation before it happened, he raising “hush money” for the burglars, tried to stop FBI from investigating the crime, destroying evidence and firing uncooperative. Nixon was never caught but this made everyone question his authory. -
Fall of South Vietnam
Saigon fell to North Vietnamese forces on April 30th 1975. The fall of Saigon effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the introduction of Vietnamisation by President Richard Nixon, US forces in South Vietnam had been constantly reduced leaving the military of South Vietnam to defend their country against the North. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border. It was a watershed event of the Cold War, marking the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country. -
Solidarity-Poland
A Polish trade union that was founded on 17 September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Its membership reached 9.5 million members before its September 1981 Congress. -
Ronald Reagan
He was the 40th President from January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989. He is from Tampico, Illinois, He served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, following a career as an actor and union leader in Hollywood. -
Yuri Andropov
He was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death in 1984. He was from the Russian Empire. -
Able Archer
Able Archer 83 was a ten-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The United States and the Soviet Union and the anticipated arrival of nuclear missiles in Europe, led some members of the Soviet and military to believe that Able Archer 83 was a ruse of war, preparing for a genuine nuclear first strike. Able Archer 83 was one of the times when the world has come closest to nuclear war. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
He was 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. He was from the Soviet Union. -
Iran Contra Affair
The Iran Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. The outcome of the investigation was that fourteen officials were charged with criminal violations. Officials had been detected organizing international terrorism, violating U.S. law, and lying under oath. -
Tiananmen Square
Series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Although the demonstrations and their repression occurred in cities throughout the country, the events in Beijing and especially in Tiananmen Square, historically linked to such other protests as the May Fourth Movement (1919) came to symbolize the entire incident. -
Berlin Wall Falls
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.