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Yuri Gagarin in space (BLUE)
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut for the USSR. He is known for being the first human to successful go into space and safely return back to earth. This along with other launch of the soviet satellite, the United States quickly pushed more funding towards the discovery and understand of space travel. -
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Troops/aid in vietnam (GREEN)
After Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence from Japan in 1945. French troops returned to Vietnam in hopes of reclaiming its former colony. As the fighting escalated between the Vietnamese and French, France asked the US for aid. Although the US opposed colonialism, they decided to aid the French so that Vietnam did not fall to communism like the rest of Asia. -
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Castro Takes over Cuba (GREEN)
Castro along with many other cuban, devised a take over of the government who was being run by cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Who at the time ran the government as a dictator and was supported by the United States since the dictatorship did not support communism. Castro and Che continued their communist efforts sporadically until the rebels finally ousted Batista on 1 January 1959.This caused conflict with the United States due to the fact that its whole goal was to contain communism -
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Corona Launch (BLUE)
The launch of Corona was a series of American strategic satellites produced and operated by the CIA. It’s primary function was for photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union and the people's Republic of China. As well as other areas either affiliated with communism or under communist control. -
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Operation Peter Pan (GREEN)
A mass migration of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States. With the help of a catholic figure, Father Bryan O. Walsh, an air transportation to the United States for Cuban children was created. Yet it was not very public due to the fear of being seen as an anti-Castro political enterprise. -
Flexible Response Strategy (RED)
Called for mutual deterrence at strategic, tactical levels giving the United States the capability to respond to aggression across the spectrum of war. Not limited only to nuclear arms, this was implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation. -
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Alliance for progress (GREEN)
This alliance was aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. The plan called for Latin American countries to pledge a capital investment of $80 billion over 10 years, in exchange the United States agreed to supply or guarantee $20 billion within one decade. To prevent the spread of communism in any nation below the United States. -
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Bay of Pigs (GREEN)
A failed military invasion of Cuba done by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.The intended result of the invasion was to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force were defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary forces. -
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Alan Shepard in space (BLUE)
Alan Shepard was the first American to be launched into space. He flew in a spacecraft called Mercury and he himself had named the spacecraft capsule Freedom 7. It launched on a Redstone rocket. The Army first used the Redstone as a missile. On this flight, Shepard did not orbit Earth. He flew 116 miles high. Then he came back down. The flight lasted about 15 ½ minutes. The mission was a success. -
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Berlin Crisis (GREEN)
The last major european incident of the Cold War about the occupational status of the German capital city Berlin. It all started due to the USSR provoking the Berlin Crisis with an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of Western armed forces from West Berlin. Germany was divided into the Federal Republic of Germany and the Democratic Republic of Germany until 1990. -
Berlin Wall Built (GREEN)
A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic. The Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding, due to the strong difference of ideology from the United States and allies compared to the west berlin who was Under Communist control of the USSR. -
John Glenn in space (BLUE)
He became one of the first Americans to orbit the whole earth circling it about three times. He was one of the the few selected military pilots by NASA as the United States' first astronauts. Upon returning his mission received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962 and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. -
Telstar (BLUE)
It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed to the United States. The second satellite didn't have a function but remained in orbit around the Earth. It helped further the United States in the space race as well as improving their technology and communication reach. -
Moon Speech (BLUE)
President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech about the effort to reach the Moon, to a large crowd gathered at Rice Stadium in Texas. It was one of Kennedy's speeches meant to persuade the American people to endorse the Apollo program, which in turn would help the United States combat the USSR in terms of the space race and conquering the stars. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis (RED)
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. After a long period of negotiations, an agreement was reached between U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev. The Soviets dismantled their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet Union, in exchange the U.S. made a public declaration and agreement to avoid invading Cuba again. -
Moscow-Washington Hotline (GREEN)
After negotiations in Moscow a pact prohibiting trial nuclear explosions in the atmosphere was signed in late 1963. Another objective that was implemented in the Cold War was the installation of a Moscow-Washington hotline. Which permitted immediate teletype communication in case of crisis. -
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Limited Test Ban Treaty (RED)
Banning nuclear testing in the atmosphere and in outer space and even underwater. Which in turn prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. First it was between the United States and the USSR who came together in Moscow to sign it, later on many other countries got on board and signed it as well agreeing to the terms and conditions. -
Ngo Dinh Diem Assassination (GREEN)
President Ngo Dinh Diem was captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam, yet it also lead to political chaos in the nation. The United States subsequently became more heavily involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels,
