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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States. He is concerned about Soviet aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron curtain is the decision between Capitalist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role on Soviet aggression -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Marshal Plan
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. -
Communist take over China
When Mao and the Communists took over China in 1949, after decades of civil war and Japanese occupation, the country was in terrible shape. Roads, railways, farms and factories where in a shocking state of disrepair and treasury was bankrupt after its entire gold reserves were taken away to Taiwan by the Nationalists. -
Nato
An international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During all the nations of post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim the North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
Revolt in Hungary
A nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The revolt spread quickly across Hungary, and the government collapsed. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere. -
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the incremental introduction of mandatory agricultural collectivization. -
Apollo Program
he Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between America and the Soviet Union after America found out Soviet secret missiles in Cuba. -
Cultural Revolution
China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. He united the youth of China to purge the impure elements of China and bring back the revolutionary spirit. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down reformist trends in Prague.