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Russia dossolves Comintern
The Comitern was the Executive Committee of the Communist International, which was dislove as a resolution due to the imposition of strict rules governing the behavior of constituent Communist parties limited their maneuverability within their respective countries. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungary in 1956 seemed to sum up all that the Cold War stood for. The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were ruled over with a rod of iron by Communist Russia.
On October 23rd 1956, students and workers took to the streets of Budapest (the capital of Hungary ) and issued their Sixteen Points which included personal freedom, more food, the removal of the secret police, the removal of Russian control etc -
Soviet Union sends ever man-made satellite sputnik into space
The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1,it was about the size of a beach ball, weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth.
This event brought increased conflict between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The people of the United States had begun to feel as if they were unsurpassable which initiated the U.S./ U.S.S.R. space race. -
USA forms NASA and launches explorer 1 satellite
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States, following the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1.
Explorer 1 was a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit. Explorer 1 made its final transmission on May 23, 1958. It entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on March 31, 1970, after more than 58,000 orbits. -
U-2 Spy plane incident (in USSR)
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important meeting between Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month.
The plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers disappeared while on a flight over Russia. -
Paris Summit Conference
It was a summit to resolve the "Berlin Question" but it failed due to the downing of a U2 Spy Plane the USSR had shot down over its Sovereign Territory. Kruschev demanded an apology from Eisenhower and he refused to give one. Kruschev walked out of the Summit and relations with the USSR deteriorated further from this point. Soon there after the USSR would build the Berlin Wall. -
Soviet Yuri Gagarin first man in space
The first man in space Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight, making him also the first persdon to orbit the earth -
Kennnedy sets up Apollo program
President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American to the Moon before the end of the decade.
Kennedy wanted the United States to "catch up and overtake" the Soviet Union in the "space race." Four years after the Sputnik shock of 1957, the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human in space embarrassing the U.S. But then Alan Shepard became the first American in space. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall--the Berlin Wall--to permanently close off access to the West. This stand for 28 years as a symbol of the Cold War, since the tensio over Berlin where high again due to the communist system that most germans disagree with. -
Cuba Missile Crisis
An American U-2 spy plane photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. After many long and difficult meetings, Kennedy decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim of this "quarantine," as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from bringing in more military supplies.l
Krushchev and Kennedy recognized the possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which both countries would get rid of the missiles. -
Khrushchev & Kennedy indulge in brinkmanship
The name “brinkmanship” seems apt for the strategy of taking your opponent to the brink of disaster, and compelling him to pull back.
Kennedy’s action in the Cuban missile crisis is generally accepted as an instance of successful exercise of brinkmanship.Brinkmanship is a subtle strategy fraught with dangers. -
Hotline established between USA and USSR
After the accidental nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union agree to establish a "hot line" communication system between the two nations. The agreement was a small step in reducing tensions between the United States and the USSR.
The system was put into place a few months after the agreement was signed -
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
Treaty signed in Moscow on Aug. 5, 1963, by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground.
One of the reason that the treaty was originated was because of the danger posed by atmospheric radioactive fallout produced by the aboveground testing of nuclear weapons. -
Czechoslovakia Uprising '68
After WW2 Czechoslovakia began to stress heavy industry and consumer goods over agricultural and services.This caused a lot of trouble, so they replaced their party lider to Alexander Dubcek, turning Czechoslovakia into a Socialist country.
On 20/08/68 troops from Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Poland occupied Czechoslovakia, invating the socialist principals, and those who supported lieral thought were forced to move to the Soviet Union. -
Brezhnev Doctrine
Policy that marked in 1968 which called for the use of Warsaw Pact forces to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation that was seen to compromise communist rule and Soviet domination, either by trying to leave the Soviet Union influence or even moderate its policies.
