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The Red Scare
Fear of communism gripped the nation in 1919, known as the red scare. Finally the U.S. governmentstarted to take the Communist seriously. -
HUAC Group
The Houseof Representative formed a group called the HUAC to investigate radical groups in the U.S. It would focus on the cummunism in the U.S. during the cold war. -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met again. There goal was to discss the end of war and discussed plans for peace. Reaching an agreement they divided Germany into 4 sections.(USSR, U.S., Great Britain, and France). Soviets get to take control of the eastern half of Germany. -
Vietnam Leader
Ho Chi Minh wanted to brought communism to South Vietnam. He made a group calld Vietminh. It was led by commmunist but anybody could become apart of that group. -
Marshell Plan
On June 5th George Marshall proposed a program to rebuild Europe from ravages of World War II. U.S. spent nearly $13 billion in aid to Europe, from 1948 to 1952. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviet Union makes a bid for control of Berlin by bllcoking all land access to the city. U.S. and British planes airlift 1.5 million tons of supplies to people in West Berlin. After about 200,000 fights, the Soviet Union take down the blockade. -
Warsaw Pact
In responce to a similar treaty in 1949. It was based on total equality in nations. It became a political tool for the Soviats. They did not have to share the military with any other country. -
Mao Zedong takes conrtol of China
Mao Zedong was a leader of the communist party,took control of China. bringing communism to the country. He borught his military stratagies and his very ownunique political veiws. -
Chinese Revolution
The Soviet Union provided little aid to the communists, and the United States assisted the Nationalists with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military supplies and equipment. On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
Cold War tensions between the United States and the USSR eventually get to Korea when Soviet-backed North Korea invaded South Korea. Truman went mad with military spending and ordered General MacArthur to retake the southern part of the peninsula. MacArthur succeeded and then pushed the North Koreans to the Chinese border. Threatened, over a million soldiers from Communist China poured into Korea, forcing MacArthur to retreat. -
Hungarian Revolution
nationwide revolt against the government lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. started as a student demonstartion, witch attracted thousands. The government would eventually collapse. Soviets invaded country, killing over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. By 1957 the Russian goverment took over making there power even larger. -
Castro takes over Cuba
Castro was the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, For communisim and being a political leader, he was elected as president of Cuba. Making Cuba and U.S. have some tension. -
U-2 incident
during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, on May 1, 1960 the U-2 U.S. plane was shot down over the Soviet Union airspace. This prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Walll Goes Up
On August 15th a wall is put up in Germany to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin where the economy is much stronger. Communist athurorities were in charge of this. U.S. did not like this. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviet Union installs nuclear missles in Cuba after the Bay of Pigs invasion failed. these missles are very capaple of reaching U.S. After U-2 flights confirm their existence, Kennedy orders a naval blockade of Cuba on October 22 until the Soviet Union removes its missles. -
Cuban Missle Crises (2)
Soviets agree to remove the weapons. This decision avoided the most dangereous battle that would have happened in the Cold War. -
Vietniam War Time
Planning to end the Vietnam war theystarted to fight in the South Vietnamese, while U.S. troops gradually pulled out. Nixon called this "peace with honor". Nixon thinking that this would give south vietnamese enough time ti create a stable anticommunist government. -
Killing At Kent State
Antiwar demonstraters at Kent State set fire to Campus reserve officers training corps building. On may 4th students gathered for an antiwar rally. Getting rowdy, students threw rocks and other objects at the soldiers, soldiers then started to fire at the students. -
Russia Invades Afghanistan
The Soviets had a war in Afghanistan for nine years. (from December 1979 to February 1989) The U.S. and other countries provided financial aid and other things to help them win. Many people were killed and the Soviets had to pull out. -
Gorbachev Takes Control
Gorbachev was part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1970 he was appointed the First Party Secretary of the Soviet Union. In 1985 he takes complete control of the USSR -
Space Race
Not only were U.S. and Russia in conflicts about government and politics, they also were in a competition to see who could get in outer space. At the end of the cold war the united states and russia agreed to build a space station and pursue other joint ventures in space.
