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china civil war
china civil war Historian Odd Arne Westad says the Communists won the Civil War because they made fewer military mistakes than Chiang Kai-shek, and because in his search for a powerful centralized government, Chiang antagonized too many interest groups in China. -
vietnam war
vietnam war Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. -
WW2 end
ww2The end of the second world war and envolved the wars great powers. It envolved more than 100 million people and over 30 countrires. Started september 1, 1939 and ended september 2, 1945. -
United Nations
united nations26 governmnets pledged to become a group as the axis power. The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. -
Churchill's iron curtain speech
iron curtain speechGave a speech to 40,000 people about the situation in europe saying that and iron curtain has feel on europe -
Truman doctrine
truman doctrineThe usa gave n poloitcal, ecnonmical, and miltrary support to deocratic nation fighting against communism. -
marshall plan
marshall plan The usa provided aid to all european nations that need it. Theis move is not agianst any country or doctrine but agianst hunger poverty desperetion and chaeos. -
Berline airlift
berlin airliftsoviet union and germany block supplies to berlin so the usa gave berlin supplies and materials by air. -
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ussr's first atomic bomb test
atomic bomb A test of a small bomb to make sure it would work and it did. -
Korean war
korean warfought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
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dwight d eisenhower
dwight d eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, promoted Atoms for Peace at the United Nations General Assembly in order to ease Cold War tensions. -
Stalins death
stalins deathJoseph Stalin or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
end of the korean war
end of the korean war The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
seato
seatoThe Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
warsaw pact
warsaw pactwas a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
esienhower doctrine
eisenhower doctrine a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, 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 assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
sputnik
sputnikSputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
fidel casto
fidel castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. -
mad plan
mad plan is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender -
francis gary powers
francis gary powersFrancis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
jfk
jfkJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly known as Jack Kennedy or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
bay of pigs
bay of pigsan unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. -
berlin wall
berlin wall The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East -
cuban missle crisis
cuban missile crisis A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
death of jfk
death of jfkThe 35th presidnt was assainatied in dallas as he was having a parade and a gunman killed him. -
lyndon Johnson
lyndon johnson36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President. -
ricahrd nixon
richard nixonRichard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only U.S. president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a U.S. representative -
nasa moon landing
nasa moon landing nasa and neil armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon -
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jimmy carter
jimmy cartoran American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. -
gerald ford
gerald ford8th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and, prior to this, was the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974 under President Richard Nixon. -
soviets invade afganistan
solviet invaded afghanistan the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country -
miracle on ice
miracle on the iceThe "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22 -
us boycot of the summer olymipics
1980 olympics us The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. -
ronald reagen
ronald reagenRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Before his presidency he served as the 33rd Governor of California and was also an actor from 1937–1964. -
star wars
star warswas a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
gorbachev coem to power
gorbachev, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.), Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. -
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george bush
gergoge bushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is a retired American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. -
tiananmen square
tianmen squareIn 1989 Chinese troops fired on student demonstrators, killing an estimated 2,000 or more. -
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boris yeltsin
boris yeltsinBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. -
collapse of the soviet union
fall of the soviet uniom it disintergrated into 15 differnent countries
