The Cold War

By Mowava

  • HUAC

    What is HUAC?In 1934, the House established the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, supposedly to investigate Americans of German origin and to keep an eye on subversive behavior in the United States. The U.S. wanted to make sure that there was no influence of communism and to make sure no one was a spy.

  • UN Created

    UN HistoryIt was composed of most the allies and put themselves as "peace loving" nations. They were going to try to prevent agressions and help the other nations if they are in trouble of becoming communists. The other nation would help them protect them.
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    Yalta Conference

    Yalta ConferenceA conference meeting between FDR, Churchhill, and Stalin discussing about what to do with Germany. They decide to split Germany and the Soviet Union takes control of Eastern Europe; which begins the Cold War.

  • Potsdam Conference

    The "Big Three" leaders met at Potsdam, Germany. Germany was then decided to officially be partitioned into four zones.

  • End of WWII

    History TimelineJapan surrenders after a few weeks of the U.S. bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The day was called VJ Day.
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    Leaders

    Cold WarThe leader of the USSR was Stalin, in the U.S. the leaders was Truman, Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan. The leaders changed because Kennedy was assasinated and the other presidents resigned or weren't elected again. Castro was the dictator of Cuba until he died and Mikhail Gorbachev took over.
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    Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine

    Cold War TimelinePresident Truman created the doctrine that declares the active U.S. role in the Greek Civil War. The Marshall Plan declares that the U.S. will help countries fight poverty, disease, and malnutrition.

  • Communist Takeovers

    Cold War 1945-63The Soviet Union wants to spread communism and wanted to ruin Germanty so that they can prevent another Nazi invasion from happening. So the Soviet Union took over Czechoslovakia and then it spread to Berlin.
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    Berlin Blockade/ Berlin Airlift

    Cold War 1945-63The Soviet Union went to Berlin to turn them into Communists. Stalin was trying to force the people of West Berlin to be communists, so he put a blockade on the transportation of goods into the city. He was starving them into submission. The U.S. created the Berlin Airlift to fly supplies that the people needed, like food, medicine and supplies in general. Also, more than a quarter of a million flights carried 1.5 million tons of supplies to West Berlin. Stalin took it down 11 months later.

  • NATO

    NATOAn alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty, which was dedicated to prevent communism from spreading.

  • Korean War

    Korean WarNorth Korea invades South Korea with the help of Stalin and the United States helpes fight off the North Korean army.

  • Nuclear Arms Race

    The Nuclear Arms RaceDuring the Cold War both the Russia and the U.S. believed that the more nuclear weapons that you have, the more powerful that you were. The both competed to have the most weapons but had never used them.

  • C.I.A

    The CIA and Vietnam by John McDermottThe C.I.A was formed during the Vietnam War so that they can carry special missions. They also helped investigate companies and movie productions to see if there are Russian spy's giving Russia and the Soviets secret information about the U.S..

  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw PactThe Warsaw Pact was the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was a military alliance in retaliation of the treaty of NATO and would help one another from foreign aggression.
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    Space Race

    Cold War TimelineThe Soviet Union built the first satellite, Sputnik, and launched it into orbit. The U.S. created the space administration called NASA, that created machines and rockets to put into space and studied the solar system. The Apollo 11 was first aircraft on the moon and Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.
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    Vietnam War

    Cold WarEscalation was when President Nixon sent more troops to Vietnam so that they could help the South Vietnam with fighting the north. Tet Offensive was a stratagy that the U.S. did against the North Vietnamese. Kent State was an event that officers shot 5 students on the campus, when they were protesting against government actions. Vietnamization was when President Nixon pulled all the troops out of Vietnam and agreed to let South Vietnam take over the battle.

  • U2 Crisis

    U-2 Spy Plane IncidentThe Soviet Union and the United States grew increasingly worried about what the other was planning or doing. The USSR didn't agree with the U.S. about the "Open Skies" proposal in 1955 and more tension was being caused. The U-2 plane was sent by U.S. was shot down near Svedlovsk, Soviet Union. This event caused deep distrust of the U.S..

  • Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs InvasionThe Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by the U.S. to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
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    Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall- The Rise and Fall of the Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was the physical divider of West Berlin and Germany. It was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War.The wall was to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West. The wall was demolished near the end of the Cold War.

  • Red Scare, Joseph McCarthy, and Hollywood 10

    Cold WarThe Red Scare was based on people's fear of the spread of communism during the Vietnam War. Joseph McCarthy was at first respected but them people started to realized he was overaggravating and using false facts. The Hollywood 10 was 10 actors and movie directors accused of believing in communism, and they denied the accusations and spent some time in jail.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis: SummaryIt was the closest that the world was close to a nuclear war. The Soviets put missiles in Cuba which it had an uproar in the U.S. because the missiles were so close to home and could destroy the U.S. if the Soviets fired them. Thankfully they came to an agreement and the Soviet Union took the missiles out of Cuba.