The Cold War- Tayber Burgess

  • WWII Ended

    WWII Ended

    On September 2, 1945, Japanesse surrenders.
  • United Nations

    United Nations

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

    Churchill'd Iron Curtain Speech

    To stop comunist from growind. Iron Curtain is dropping and we need to make the current pernement.
  • China's Civil War

    China's Civil War

    The war repersents an ideological split between the Communist CPC and KMT'S Brand of Nationalism. Starting August 1, 1927 to December 22, 1936 and starting again on March31, 1946 to May 1, 1950.
  • China's Civil War

    China's Civil War

    The war repersent an ideological split between the communist CPC and the KMT's brand of nationalism starting August 1, 1927 to December 22, 1936, and started back up on MArch 31, 1948 to May 1. 1930.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies agter the end of WWII.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The United States begin a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the Besieged City because the Soviet blockadeof land routes in West Berlin.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Was an American Foreign Policy created to counter Soviet Union geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War.
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Org. Secure economies and ensure peace.
  • USSR'S 1st ATOMIC Bomb Test

    USSR'S 1st ATOMIC Bomb Test

    Successfully detonates its 1st atomic bomb, code name First Lightening.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    34th President of United States. Main goal was to keep pressure on Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits.
  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb

    United States test the first Hydrogen bomb.
  • Mutually Assured Destruction/ MAD Plan

    Mutually Assured Destruction/ MAD Plan

    A U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack.
  • Stalin's Death

    Stalin's Death

    Leader of Soviet Union since 1924. He died of a massive Heart Attack.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy

    35th President.
  • When Did Fidel Take Over Cuba?

    When Did Fidel 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 War. But it technically never ends.
  • SEATO

    SEATO

    International Organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Treaty Org.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    Was a collective Defense treaty among the SU and 7 other Soviet Satellite states in central and 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.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Was the 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 U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba.
  • When was JFK shot and killed?

    When was 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, took over for JFK.
  • 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 man to step on the moon.
  • SALT- First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty

    SALT- First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty

    Froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) Launcher only after the same number of older Intercontineal Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers were dismantled.
  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford

    38th President
  • 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.
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter

    39th President.
  • Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviets Invade Afghanistan

    Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.
  • U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics

    U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics

    U.S. boycotts olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviets invasion on Afghanistan.
  • Miricle on Ice

    Miricle on Ice

    the U.S. Hockey team face off against Soviet Union in the Medal round of Lake Placid Olympics. The U.S. team 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.
  • George Bush (Senior)

    George Bush (Senior)

    41st President
  • When did Soviets leave Afghanistan?

    When did Soviets leave Afghanistan?

    Troops started to leave on May 15, 1988, continued until Feb. 2, 1989. On Feb. 15, 1989, thy announced all its troops had left.
  • Tianamen Square

    Tianamen Square

    Large City Square in the center 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.
  • When Did Gorbachev Come to Power?

    When Did Gorbachev Come to Power?

    President of Soviet Union.
  • Boris Yeltsin

    Boris Yeltsin

    First President of Russia
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union

    90% of Everyone wanted and voted for Independence.