The cold war time line by Jacob Fennern

By j11fenner@hotmail.com
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    Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

    USA would provide military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism

  • Marshall Plan

    USA give large amounts of money to Europe to help them rebuild after World War II

  • NATO

    (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Military providing mutual help if attacked.

  • Warsaw Pact

    Military alliance of communist to block other nations

  • Sputnik 1

    First satellite to orbit the earth created by russia

  • U2 Incident

    USSR shot down american spy plane

  • John F Kennedy

    35 president of the united states and was assassinated 1963

  • Eisenhower

    34th President of the United States and was an army polition

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Russian pilot and was the first human to journey into outer space.

  • Bay of Pigs

    USA would invade Cuba and lead revolt against Castro. JFK gave orders for Cuban invasion, and it was a failure

  • Berlin wall

    Built to keep East Germany from fleeing to west Germany

  • Cuban Missile crisis

    USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba.

  • Krushchev

    Krushchev lead the soviet union during the cold war

  • Detente

    The name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union

  • Vietnamization

    Agreement with North Vietnam to withdraw USA forces

  • Fidel Castro

    Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister

  • Perestroika

    political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

  • Glasnost

    practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    East germany opened to the west and ended the cold war

  • COMECON

    Economy organization from 1941 to 1991 under leadership of Russia