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Treaty of Versailles
However, even though there were a series of misunderstandings between the United States and other Western Powers (including the Soviet Union before and after the Second World War), there can be a much different interpretation of the beginning of the Cold War for a number of reasons, including the huge ideological divide between the Western Powers and the USSR on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. -
league of nations
founded after WW1 to protect countrys so that an other world war would not happen again. and worried that we would go into an other during the cold war -
Russia communist revolution
as Russia became USSR, the U.S. did not see eye to eye with their views on government pushing them into a cold war -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference occurred in 1945. The leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met to decide how they wanted to separate Germany among the three allies (Russia, England and USA). Around this time marks the beginning of the Cold War. The division of Germany created tension between the super powers. -
United Nations
The United Nations were formed to intervene in world problems. and with the U.S. and Soviets both at the head nothing improved during the cold war -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were trials held against the Nazi officers during the holocaust for the crimes they committed. Several judges from the allied powers were in charge of the trials. Most were sentenced to death, while others were given a short sentence or no penalty at all. This relates to The Cold War because the U.S. and the Soviet Union started to have problems with each other because the U.S. wanted to give them a fair trial while the Soviets wanted to sentence them to death. -
General Assembly
The job of the general assembly it to make decisions are events that are affecting the world and in order to get something passed you needed 2/3 vote. and with the soviets and U.S. as world powers the allies would vote for the leaders and nothing would get solved -
Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain speech was given by former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. In the speech he claimed the there was an "Iron Curtain" and behind that curtain were all the Eastern Nations that fallen under Soviet Control and those who had become communist. -
Nuclear Deterrent
Deterrence theory gained increased prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. It took on a unique connotation during this time as an inferior nuclear force, by virtue of its extreme destructive power, could deter a more powerful adversary, provided that this force could be protected against destruction by a surprise attack. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. When he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. Direct American military force was usually not involved, but Congress appropriated financial aid to support the economies and militarizes of Greece and Turkey. More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an effort by the U.S. to deliver supplies to West Germany's Berlin after the Soviets made a blockade -
NATO Created
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Its main purpose was to prevent other nations from falling under Soviet control and becoming a communist nation. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) during its first meeting in June 1946. The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David E. Lilienthal to draw up a plan. -
MAD
Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the U.S and the Soviet Union. It is based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese Communist Mao Zedong declared the creation of the Peoples Republic of China. He wanted to spread communism throughout China. He fought against Chiang Kai-shek the nationalist leader in China. Mao marched through China and spread communism to the people. This was called the Long March. He gained enough support from the Chinese and was able to take over China. This relates to the Cold War by showing how communism was spreading throughout Asia. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph McCarthy, a republican senator from Wisconsin, gave a speech about how he believed that communists were everywhere. He said that he had a list of people who worked for the state department who he accused of being members of the communist party. “McCarthyism,” as the hunt for communists in the United States came to be known during the 1950s, scared many people. However, McCarthy never found any communist spies and his power as senator collapsed in 1954. -
Korean War
The Korean war was a war between North Korea with the support of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea with the support of the United States and France. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the North. -
Warsaw Pact
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 states.The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. -
U.S. send troops to Vietnam
These forces would soon transition from defensive missions to direct combat operations. As the war escalated, more and more U.S. combat troops were sent to South Vietnam to help them defend against North Korea and the spread of Soviet/communist influence. -
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik 1 was the Soviet Unions satellite. It was the first satellite to be successfully launched into space. The launch brought in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The U.S. help 1400 Cuban exiles launch an attack on Cuba and new leader Fidel Castro to over throw him. which did not work. And the U.S. help to try to stop communism from coming into Cuba -
Construction of the Berlin Wall Begins
The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection of West Germany and their Democratic type government from entering East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the Cold War period. -
Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba
With Castro making Cuba a communist country this worried the U.S. because how close they are to us and they became allies with the soviets and placed missiles on the island -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In May 1960, Khrushchev began to ship ballistic missiles to Cuba and technicians to operate them. He believed that President Kennedy was weak and would not react to the Soviet move.
Kennedy blockaded Cuba on October 22, 1962. The two sides stood on the edge of nuclear war, but Khrushchev and Kennedy came to an agreement that the Soviets remove the missiles in Cuba and the US removes the missiles in Turkey. -
Berlin wall
Many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin; from there they could then travel to West Germany and to other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989 the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period over 100,000 people attempted to escape and over 5,000 people succeeded in escaping over the Wall, with an estimated death toll ranging from 136 to 200 in Berlin -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was President Kennedys end to the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The goal of Apollo 11 was to successfully land American men on the moon and bring them back to Earth safely. On July 20, Apollo 11 landed on the moon and the crew member Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. The Apollo 11 moon landing occurred 8 years after President Kennedy announced the goal of landing on the moon. This ended the space race between the Soviets and America. -
Kent State Shootings
Kent State students were shot by National guard during protests on the bombing of Cambodia to stop the spread of communism during the Vietnam War -
Salt I
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control. Negotiations over SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two countries. -
Fall of Saigon
This was the take over of the capital of South Vietnam. And this marked the end of the Vietnam war and communist rule in the North -
Margaret Thatcher
When she first went into office she was primarily focused on reforming Britains economy. She often found herself allied with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. She met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. She believed that they could end the Cold War with him and believed she could do business with him. As soon as she met with him he took over and talked to Raegan about the disarmament treaties. -
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II hated communism and the Soviet Union, he agreed with Ronald Raegan on many things. He created an alliance with Ronald Raegan and Margaret Thatcher, who both hated communism and wanted to end the Soviet Union. Reagan was arming freedom fighters, Paul was sending food and medical supplies and Thatcher was calling up European support, calling on them to act like men. With those three combined they were able to take down the Soviets and end The Cold War. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a long time communist leader in China. He signed accords with U.S. President Jimmy Carter that reversed a long time of the U.S. opposing The Peoples Republic Of China.e wanted to create closer ties to the West so he created economic reforms all throughout China -
Salt II
SALT II was a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. -
Soviets invade Afganistan
December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately took over large portions of the country. By doing this they set up a socialist government in Vietnam. It connects to the cold war because it was the first time the Soviets invaded a country outside of the Eastern Bloc, and they were trying to spread communism throughout the world. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall united East and West Germany and got rid of Soviet control in the East and made the country what it is today -
Lech Walesa
Lech Walsea was a polish labor leader and hated communism. In 1980 he took over the leadership of a strike of shipyard workers. The action was a success, with Poland’s communist government agreeing to the union’s right to exist. His union uprising influenced free elections in Poland and the present communist leader stepped down and Lech became President. The fall of communism in Poland was another blow to the Soviets which helped end The Cold War -
Start I
START I was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms.The treaty barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and bombers. -
Start II
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed by United States President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 3 January 1993, banning the use of multiple independently target able reentry vehicles on intercontinental ballistic missiles.
