The Cold War: purple- helping of the government, blue- war type, orange- collapses

By LizSan1627

  • Potsdam Conference (purple)

    Potsdam Conference (purple)
    • The purpose of the summit meeting was to follow up the discussions and agreements made at the Yalta Conference regarding the establishment of post-war order, German reparations and peace treaty issues
    • replacement of the president
    • communism expansion

  • Truman Doctrine (purple)

    Truman Doctrine (purple)
    • The Truman Doctrine demonstrated that the United States would not return to isolationism after World War II, but rather take an active role in world affairs.
    • To help rebuild after the war, the United States pledged $13 billion of aid to Europe in the Marshall Plan.

  • The Berlin Blockade (purple)

    The Berlin Blockade (purple)
    • In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin.

  • Suez Crisis (blue)

    • marked the beginning of the end of British and French colonial power -The Doctrine was made as US felt threatened that the SU is attempting to start a generalized war using the Suez Crisis as a pretext
    • Egypt had been supplied with arms to combat by the Soviet Union thus indicating that the SU’s sphere of influence had spread to the Middle East

  • Cuban Missle Crisis (blue)

    • Cuban Missile Crisis told us how unsafe we are in the world of Nuclear Missiles.
    • Countries like USA, USSR were amassing nuclear stockpile since World War which further threaten the peace and safety of this world.
    • This event also led the establishment of direct phone link between Soviet Union and USA which was called as hotline to avoid any miscommunication in the Future.

  • North Vietnam wins the Vietnam War (purple)

    North Vietnam wins the Vietnam War (purple)
    With the surrender of General Duong Van Minh and his cabinet in the Presidential palace in Saigon, the war that started on September 26, 1959, finally came to an end on April 30, 1975. The communist forces of North Vietnam won the war in which every party suffered huge losses. Almost 5 million Vietnamese died.

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (blue)

    The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. It entered the country to support the Soviet-backed Afghan communist government in its ongoing conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas, also known as the mujahedeen. The Soviets began their withdrawal from Afghanistan in May of 1988 and were fully withdrawn by February 15, 1989.

  • Tiananmen Square massacre (blue)

    Tiananmen Square massacre (blue)
    • military crackdown
    • protest in Tiananmen square over corruption and calls for political change.
    • stunned china's political reforms
    • put the countries economic development on a deviant path

  • Berlin Wall Comes down (orange)

    Berlin Wall Comes down (orange)
    • The Wall presented a division between the East and West, basically the embodiment of the Iron Curtain. Many people, mostly citizens, were killed attempting to cross the wall.
    • The fall of the Wall meant that Europe was ready to be united and that people were free to travel from one country to another and explore the world

  • Collapse of the Soviet Union (orange)

    Collapse of the Soviet Union (orange)
    • ethnic conflict
    • lack of support for the idea of communism and economic troubles
    • trade gap, bankruptcy
    • end of the cold war