Cold war

Events of the Cold War

By wautivic

  • Chinese Revolution

    Chinese Revolution
    Chinese Communist Party vs. Nationalist Party from 1945-1952. Mainland China fell to communism led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    North Korea vs. South Korea from 1950-1953. North Korean People's Arm poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet - backed Democratic people's republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.

  • Unprising in Hungary and Czechoslovakia

    Unprising in Hungary and Czechoslovakia
    Hungary vs. the Soviet in 1956. Hungary demanded a democratic system and the Soviets didn't want them to. Impacted the Cold War because the Soviets stunned the people in the West.
    Czechoslovakia vs. Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Genmany, and Poland in 1968. These contries occpupied Czechoslovakia which was a violation of socialist principals, international law, and the United States.

  • Sputnik launched (and the space race)

    Sputnik launched (and the space race)
    U.S.S.R. vs U.S. on Oct. 4, 1957. Is ushered in a new poltical, military, technological, and scientific developments. Wanted a battle of who was the better country.

  • U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)

    U2 spy plane shot down (Francis Gary Powers)
    U.S. vs Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia.

  • Berlin Wall goes up

    Berlin Wall goes up
    East Berlin vs. West Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961. They made it to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of steeming mass defections from East to West.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    U.S. vs Soviet Union on Oct. 1962. Installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.

  • Russia invades Afghanistan

    Russia invades Afghanistan
    Russia vs Afghanistan, Christmas of 1979. Russian paratroopers landed in Kabal and took control of Afghanistan. Afghanistan got a communist government.