The cold War

  • World War 2 Ended

    World War 2 Ended

    Japanese surrender, the allies won.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

    Intergovernment organization to promote international co -operation.
  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Stop comminist from growing, Iron curtain is dropping & we need to make the curtain pernement.
  • China's Civil war

    China's Civil war

    The war repersent an ideological split between the communists CPC and teh KMT's brand of nationalism starting August 1,1927 to December 22, 1936 and starting back up on March 31,1946 to May 1,1950.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. provides political, military, and economic assistance, foreign Policy.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the United States gave $13 billion in econimic support to help rebuild Western Europe economics after the end of WWII.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the Besieged City, in responsed to the Soviet blockade of land routes in West Berlin.
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty org. secure economics/ ensure peace
  • USSR's first Atomic Bomb test

    USSR's first Atomic Bomb test

    Successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lighting".
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to aid South Korea.China and Soviet Union aided North Korea.
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    34th president of the United States. Main goal was to keep pressure of SU and reduce federal deficits.
  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb

    United States test first Hydrogen bomb.
  • MAD Plan

    MAD Plan

    A U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and SU each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    35th president.
  • Stalin's death

    Stalin's death

    Leader of Soviet Union since 1924, died of a massive heart attack.
  • Fidel Castro Take over Cuba

    Fidel Castro Take over Cuba

    He failed and was captured and sentenced to Jail for 15 years, but was let out in 1955 and ended up in Mexico.
  • End of Korean War

    End of Korean War

    Armistice ends the Korean War.
  • SEATO

    SEATO

    International organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia treaty.org
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and 7 other Soviet Satellite states in Central an Eastern Europe in existence during the civil war.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Was a cold war-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
  • Francis Gary Powers

    Francis Gary Powers

    American Pilot whose central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union Airspace.
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine

    U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern Country needing help in resisting Communist Aggression.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Was the first 1st artificial Earth satellite.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    A failed military invasion of Cuba under taken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Barrier that divided Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Confrontation between the US and the tSU concerning Soviet Ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
  • JFK shot and killed

    JFK shot and killed

    Was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.
  • Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson

    36th president
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon

    37th president
  • NASA's first moon landing

    NASA's first moon landing

    Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon.
  • SALT-First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty

    SALT-First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty

    Froze the # of strategic ballistic missile launches @ existing levels and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) launcher only after the sa,e # of older intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers were dismantled.
  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford

    38th president
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter

    39th president
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    SU invades Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty of 1978.
  • Miracle on Ice

    Miracle on Ice

    The US hockey team faced off against the Soviet Union in the Medal round of Lake Placid Olympics. US won.
  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan

    40th president
  • STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative

    STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative

    An ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system.
  • US boycott of the Summer Olympics

    US boycott of the Summer Olympics

    Soviet Union claims they would not participate in the Olympics because of security concerns.
  • George Bush Sr.

    George Bush Sr.

    41st president
  • Soviet Leaves Afghanistan

    Soviet Leaves Afghanistan

    Troops started to leave on May 15, 1988, continued until Feb 2, 1989, and On Feb 15, 1989, announced all its troops had left.
  • Tiananmen square

    Tiananmen square

    Large City Square in the centre of Beijing, China, located to its North and Separating it from the Forbidden City.
  • Berlin Wall falls

    Berlin Wall falls

    The conditions that had caused its construction did not change.
  • Gorbachev

    Gorbachev

    President of Soviet Union.
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin

    1st President of Russia.
  • Collapse of Soviet Union

    Collapse of Soviet Union

    90% of everyone wanted and voted for independence.