Cold war

Events of the Cold War

  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    ww2 meeting of heads of government of the us , uk and russia and they talked about postwar stuff
  • Second Red Scare

    Second Red Scare

    occured right after ww2, mccarthyism
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    president harry s truman
    its a principle that the us should support other countries that have been threatened or affected by soviet forces
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    joesph stalin ran it
    they cut off all land and river transit between west berlin and west germany
  • Creation of NATO

    Creation of NATO

    was founded after ww2 and its purpose is to secure peace in europe
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    north korea invaded south korea in a generated attack
  • Cuban Revolution

    Cuban Revolution

    was an effort to overthrow the government of cuba
  • Space Race

    Space Race

    this was a competition between two cold war rivals, us and russia to see who could create better spacelight travel
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    a bunch of people from vietnam ran it,
    there was a peace agreement concluded
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    the war started because they wanted to prevent a communist takeover of the region
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

    this was aggression in the arab but an invasion in egypt , which the uk and france joined
  • 1960 U2 Incident

    1960 U2 Incident

    an american spy plane that was shot down over russian air space
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion

    The cia started this
    this was a failed attack in attempt to push the cuban leader fidel castro from power
  • Berlin Crisis of 1961

    Berlin Crisis of 1961

    east german police and military units sealed off all arteries leading to west berlin
  • Fall of Soviet Union

    Fall of Soviet Union

    the failed coup against gorbachev sealed the fate of the soviet union