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The Suez Canal
The Suez canal is an artificial sea level waterway in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean sea to the red scare through the isthmus of Suez.Constructed by the Suez canal company between 1859 and 1869 it was officially opened on November 17 1869.The canal offers watercraft a shorter journey between the North Atlantic and north Indian oceans. -
The long Telegraph
On July 1947 George Keenan the american charge d'affaires in Moscow sent a 8,000 word telegram to the department of state detailing his views on soviet union and U.S. policy towards the communist state.Keenan also provided one of the most influential underpinnings for America's cold war policy of containment. -
The Red Scare
As the cold war between the soviet union and the US intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communist in the US became known as the red scare. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt, commonly known as FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.Roosevelt was in office from March 4 1933 to April 22 1945 -
End of world war two
A global war that lasted from September 1 1939 to September 2 1945.Vast majority of world countries including all the great powers had formed two opposing military. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill soviet premier Joseph Stalin the purpose of the conference played an important role in causing the cold war. -
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States, taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The Creation of United Nations
The united nations is an organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into separate areas from the end of world war 2 in 1945 until the end of cold war in 1991.The term symbolizes the efforts by the soviet union to block itself and it's satellite states from open contact with the west and non-controlled areas.On the east of the iron curtain were the countries that were connected or influenced by the soviet union. -
Truman Doctrine
A foreign american policy which stated purpose and to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
An american aid for western Europe and the US gave over 13 billion dollars in assistants to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of world war 2.On April 3 1948 President Truman signed the Marshall plan granting 5 billion dollars in aid to 16 European nations.The impact the Marshall plan had on the cold war was that it became a reality in the lives of the people of the countries involved. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
One of the first major international crises of the cold war.The multinational occupation of post world war 2 Germany the soviet union blocked the western allies railway road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control.The impact the Berlin blockade airlift had on the cold war was It rose tensions in the cold war and made the USSR look to the rest of the world like a cruel and capricious enemy. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.The term to US senator Joseph McCarthy and has it origins in the period in the US known as the second red scare lasting roughly from 1947 to 1956. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea with the help of China and the soviet union.The war began on June 25 1950 when North Korea invaded south Korea following a series of clashes along the border the united nation with the united states as the principal force came to the aid of south Korea.China came to aid of north Korea and the soviet union also gave assistant to the north. -
Duck and Cover
A method of personal protection against the effects of nuclear explosion. Ducking and covering is useful at conferring a degree or protection of protection. -
Dwight D.Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 196. -
The Rosenberg
The Rosenberg were united states citizens who were executed on June 19 1953 after being convicted for committing espionage for the soviet union.They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the soviet union at that time the US was the only country with nuclear weapons.The Rosenberg were also accused of providing top-secret information about radar sonar and jet propulsion engines the the USSR. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective treaty signed in Warsaw among the soviet union and seven soviet satellites of central and eastern Europe during the cold war.The impact the Warsaw pact had on the cold war was NATO and Warsaw pact never directly waged war against each other in Europe the US and soviet union and allies implemented strategic polices aimed. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
The Eisenhower Doctrine was started by Dwight D.Eisenhower within a special message to the congress on the situation in the middle east.Under the Eisenhower Doctrine a middle eastern country could request american economic assistant or aid from US military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression.Eisenhower singled out the soviet threat in his doctrine by authorizing the commitment of US forces. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the cold war on May 1 1960 during the presidency of Dwight D.Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a united states u-2 spy plane was shot down while in soviet airship.The aircraft was hit by an S-75 surface to air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk.The US government tried to cover up the plane's purpose and mission but was forced to admit it.
