Events of the Cold War

  • US invades Gernda

    US invades Gernda
  • the Marshall plan

    the Marshall plan
    the marshall plan was an american program to aid europe where the united states gave monetary support to help rebuild european econmines after the end of world war 1.
  • creation of NATO

    creation of NATO
    nato means the north atlantic treaty organization. Its an ingovermental millitary alliance based on the north atlantic treaty.
  • the korean war

    the war began with the north korean leader Kim ll song's desire the unify the pennisula under comnuists rule. at first the united states and the red china went in by sending hundreds and thousands of their own troops into battle to prevent the win by the koreans. the korean war was significant because it was an extension to the cold war. the korean war played out as a conflict and a world wide battle.
  • Vietnam War

    the vietnam war was the struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of vietnam under a communist government and the united states. atempting to prevent the spread of communism. the vietnam war is also known as American war in vietnam, vietnam conflict. This war was basically fough in the jungle, so it was the jungle war. the significance was that it destroyed every communist econmy that contributed to it.
  • Bay of Pigs

    the Bay of pigs war was an unsucessful attempt by the united states backed up the cuban exiles to over power the government of the cuban dictator. the Bay of Pigs invasion was significant because it was a way to stop communisom reaching to our country. another significance was to protect our supply of raw materials that were entering our country. Castro eventually took over cuba in junauary of 1959, then in 1960 he took over the United States.
  • Us sends a man to the moon

    Us sends a man to the moon
    a man goes to the moon
  • The Berlin Wall Goes Up

    40 thousand armed soliders, and police that were supported by tanks, armored cars, personal carriers, trucks filled with water cannon, and other military vehicles took postion around the border. By night time the troops had came up with a thousands of feet of barded wire. Untill august 13, 1961, it was possible to cross the border, but now the Brandenberg gate is closed.
  • Cuban Missle crisis

    the cuban missile crisis was the closest the world ever came to the nuculear war. the US navy and the soviet union were at tense in this war.
  • the 6 day war

    the 6 day war
    was fought between june 5th and june 10th. the isrealles defended the war. the war was again syria, jordan and egypt.
  • Vietnam War

    the Vietnam war was a very long war, and was a conflict between north vietnam and its south allies. more then 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War, incuding 58,00 americans. for decades there was fighting in vietnam before the vietnam war, and japan invaded portions of vietnam in 1940. Ho Chi Minh came back to vietnam and he established head quartores in a cave in vietnam.
  • 1980 olympic hockey game

    1980 olympic hockey game
    the hockey team won the gold medal, they came close to loosing but they pulled it together and won.
  • Collapse of the Soviet uniuon

    Collapse of the Soviet uniuon
    the collapse of the soviet union at the end of 1980's was a great blow. it collapsed because political and econmic and they were the result of the culture of the war. The real cause of the collapse was the econmy
  • German Reunification\Fall of Berlin Wall

    the process in 1990 which the german Democratic republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany.when berlin turned into a single city. the end of the unification process is officially referred as Germany unity. the significance is that it let people free.
  • Rosenberg spy case

    Rosenberg spy case
    espionage case