Cold war timeline Project

  • General Douglas MacArthur

    General Douglas MacArthur

    Was a American five star general at the time of the Cold War.
  • Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh

    Was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader.
  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev

    Was a Russian politican who led the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
  • Senator Joseph Mcarthy

    Senator Joseph Mcarthy

    An American politician eho served as a republican U.S Senator from the state of Wisconsin
  • Ronald Regan

    Ronald Regan

    Was an American actor and a politicain. He became the 40th president on Jan 20th 1981
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    Was the 35th president until hs assassination in 1963
  • Union of soviet socialist republics

    Union of soviet socialist republics

    Also known as the Soviet Union.
  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro

    A Cuban polotician who served as the prime Minister of Cuba
  • Che Guevara

    Che Guevara

    Was in the Marxist revolution.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev

    Mikhail Gorbachev

    Was a former Soviet statesman. He was the 8th and last leader of the Sovet Union.
  • Draft

    Compulsory recruitment for military service.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    A Union made originally by the eastern side of the world.
  • 38th Parallel

    38th Parallel

    This parallel crosses Europe, the Mediteranian Sea, Asia, Pacific Ocean, North America and the Atlantic Ocean.
  • The Truman Doctorine

    The Truman Doctorine

    http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/doctrine.htm
    President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress.
  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan

    The Marshall plan was to help Europe. The U.S gave Europe 17$ million dollars to help in economic support.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade
    One of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  • NATO

    NATO

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
    North Atlantic Treaty Orginization created by the north atlantic countries.
  • Armistice

    Armistice

    While the end of the Cold war was near, enemies signed Armistices to make peace with one another.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
    The Korean war started out in 1950 and ended in 1953. This was a war between South Korea and North Korea
  • Landing at Inchon

    Landing at Inchon

    U.S marines landed at Ichon as a part of a suprise attack.
  • Jules & Ethel Rosenberg

    Jules & Ethel Rosenberg

    These two were executed because they were spies and sent the Soviet Union meassages on what and when the U.S would plan for pervious attacks.
  • Demilitarized zone

    Demilitarized zone

    Both sides agreed to move back their armies about 2,000m to make peace with eachother in thr Armistice Agreement.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    A collective defence treaty amoung 8 communist states of Centeral and Eastern Europe.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War was Vietnam and they're allies against the U.S. This battle lasted until 1975.
  • NASA

    NASA

    National Aeronautics and Space Administration created and owned by the U.S Gov.
  • Vietcong

    Vietcong

    A political orginization and army in south Vietnam and Cambodia.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

    When Cuban refugees try to overthrow the communist government and fail miserably.
  • Berlin wall

    Berlin wall

    The Berlin wall divided west and eastern Germany.
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis

    The Soviet Union was planning an attack on the U.S with missles.
  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    This agreement was to promote peace and security in Southeast Asia.
  • The Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive

    One of the largest military campagins of the Vietnam War.
  • Detente

    Detente

    The term was used in reference to geological tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. which began in 1969
  • Salt Agreement

    Salt Agreement

    When Nixon and General Secratary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and the Interim SALT Agreement.
  • Star Wars

    Star Wars

    The Stragetic Defense Initiative also known as Star wars. Was a program to develop a sophisticated anit-ballistic missle system.
  • Glasnost

    Glasnost

    Was a policy where increased openess, government activites and more were for the Soviet Union to know about.
  • Communisim Collapses

    Communisim Collapses

    Revolutions of 1989 were a part of a revolutionary wave that resulted in the Fall of Communism in Centeral and Eastern parts of Europe.
  • Superpower

    Superpower

    In the Cold War the U.S and the Soviet Union became the two "Superpowers".