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Iron Curtain speech
Winston Churchill was involved in the Iron Curtain and he visited Westminster College as the Green Lecturer and delivered his speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S. He gave this speech so people can see that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Unites States and democratic nations were involved and it was made to stop Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. Truman said it was to support free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. -
Marshall Plan
Military assistance to Greece and Turkey was being given.The newly formed United Nations was providing humanitarian assistance.American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to aid in the economic recovery of nations after WWII and to reduce the influence of Communist parties within them. -
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Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union was involved in the Berlin Blockade.The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.Stalin claimed the new currency was an attempt to wreck the East German economy. The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War,Stalin was taking over eastern Europe by salami tactics and Czechoslovakia had just turned Communist.On the other side, the USA had just adopted the Truman Doctrine to 'contain the USSR. -
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Nato
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. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.British diplomacy set the stage for NATO to contain the Soviet Union (USSR) and stop the expansion of Communism in Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
In July 1945, President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin met at Potsdam to divide Germany into what they saw as four temporary occupation zones. On this day in 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. It took place in Berlin and West Berlin.Berlin Airlift begins. In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin. -
Communists take over China
Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-shek, 600,000 Nationalist troops, and about two million Nationalist-sympathizer refugees retreated to the island of Taiwan.After a period of slow growth and alliance with the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), the alliance broke down and the Communists fell victim in 1927 to a purge carried out by the Kuomintang under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. -
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Korean War
North Korea, Soviet Union, United Nations, United States were all involved in the Korean War. The war took place in Korea, Korean Peninsula, and Korean Demilitarized Zone. The war started because North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
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Vietnam War
The United States, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic, Kingdom of Laos and Republic of China (Taiwan) were involved in the war. The war took place in south and north Vietnam,Cambodia,Laos, and south east Asia. communists were in control of North Vietnam and USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government. -
Revolt in Hungary
The Hungary Revolution started after a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin's rule. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression.The revolution took place in Hungary.It was a revolt by the people against the ruling Communist Party.Hungary was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact -
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Sputnik
A group of scientists led by Mikhail Tikhonravov pioneered the work.The signals continued for 21 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957.The satellite was launched from what is now called the Baikonur Cosmodrome.Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite.The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the US, who had hoped that the US would accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
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The Great Leap Forward
Mao Zedong was involved in the Great Leap Forward. As a result of the successful economic reconstruction that had taken place in the early 1950s under the First Five Year Plan, the Party leadership headed by Mao Zedong considered the conditions ripe for a Great Leap Forward. he Great Leap Forward was Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivaled America. -
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Apollo Program
NASA was involved in the Apollo program.The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This confrontation almost brought nuclear weapons into the conflict. This happened because the Soviet Union (USSR) began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. -
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Cultural Revolution
China's Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.To eliminate his rivals within the Communist Party of China (CPC), The Cultural Revolution happened because in the 1960s, Mao Zedong came to feel that the current party leadership in China, as in the Soviet Union, was moving too far in a revisionist direction, with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity. -
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Revolt in Czechoslovakia
The people and the Government of Czechoslovakia: Warsaw Pact were the participants in the revolt. Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded and the led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”.
