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The Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference held in Soviet Russia, Roosevelt accedes to Stalin demand for control of Poland and Eastern Europe. However, Churchill presses Stalin to agree to free elections in Poland to determine its status. Stalin agrees but breaks promise. The relation to Gaspire is a social revolution because this is were the competition to be the best really started between Russia and the United States. -
Death of F.D.R
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of cerebral hemorrhage. Untested Vice President Harry Truman succeeds Roosevelt.This relates to Gaspire through a very high political stand point because it was towards the end of WW2 for the U.S. and Japan and ultimately Truman had to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and this left a high impact on wither FDR would have done the same, and really questioned if Truman was the right man to be president. -
Celebrities are thought to be apart members of the Communist Party
Many celebrities in the U.S. are accused of being a communist for no reason. Senator Joseph McCarthy is the man behind the accusations and is responsible for hurting the careers of many innocent people who could not get jobs after being accused. This i thought to be a rather high social point in the Gaspire theme due to having a major impact of the countries biggest stars and effecting how they are treated by the public. -
Russians test Atomic Bombs
The Soviet Union successfully tests its first atomic bomb, which the U.S. calls Joe 1. In addition to the U.S., there are now two countries in the world with nuclear weapons. This is Geographical to the Gaspire theme because the Russian government started test these bombs and let them affect their own land mass to see the affects of the bomb. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. This was rather high on the Economics on the United States it had increased jobs again just shortly after WW2. -
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War. Because the U.S. failed to achieve a military victory and the Republic of South Vietnam was ultimately taken over by North Vietnam, the Vietnam experience became known as “the only war America ever lost.” This has a very high economic cost on the country since it gave more jobs since it was in high demand for military production in order to keep fighting the war. -
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the space race
The world’s two great powers–the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other. Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. this is race was intellectual and pushed each scientist from either side of the to there maximum capacity for knowledge if they though they could win. -
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The Cuban Missle Crisis
Having promised in May 1960 to defend Cuba with Soviet arms, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev assumed that the United States would take no steps to prevent the installation of Soviet medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. But when the unites states found out that this happened it only took a few day to resolve the issue and have the missiles removed from Cuba. this is artistic, because the U.S. had to think creatively in order to scare Cuba to avoid war. -
The JFK Assassination
Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedy's. The car turned off Main Street at Daley Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. Bullets struck the president's neck and head and he slumped over toward Mrs. Kennedy. The governor was also hit in the chest.This had a major psychological effect on the people of the united sates and put the people through a rough time. -
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. this had a major geographical impact due the soviet union claiming the land and taking it over to end anti communist threats. -
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two. Designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems and the possibility of an international space rescue. this was a high intellectual advancement for the United States against the soviets because it gave the ability rescue others if one were to be trapped or left in space during a NASA mission. -
Olympic Boycott by USA
In 1980, the United States led a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In total, 65 nations refused to participate in the games, whereas 80 countries sent athletes to compete. This had a massive cultural effect on the nations do to that almost half of the worlds population wouldn't play due to Russia's treatment on another country simply because they didn't share the same belief system. -
Olympic boycott by Russia
The Soviet Union announced tonight that it will not take part in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles because the Reagan administration "does not intend to ensure the security" of Soviet athletes.This showed how the soviets would later state about the U.S.. Accusing the Reagan administration for being an "direct connivance". also had a high cultural effect to the athletes of the olmpics due to the Reagan administration not guarantee the soviet athletes safety. -
Afghanistan
At the end of December 1979 the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control. The United States and its European allies guided by their own doctrine of containment, sharply criticized the Soviet move into Afghanistan and devised numerous measures to compel Moscow to withdraw. this has a significant geographical location because it took place in Afghanistan but all the world powers were involved for the first time since WW2 -
The Cold War Ends
On December 8, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Republic, formed the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.). After 45 years, the Cold War was over. This had a high religious impact due to the people of Russia could start doing things independently and have there own property and beliefs now. -
Interview of Cold War survivor
The survivor stated that the living conditions in this time were rather nerve racking and didn't know how to deal with the events at the time.He believes the reasons for the cold war were simply to see who was the most powerful country and didn't care what it meant to obtain this power.Lastly The survivor thought that when the cold war ended nobody really gained anything out of it because we still had to deal with our own problems with foreign affairs as well such as Afghanistan and Iraq.
