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The U.S justified it's military intervention in Vietnam by the domino theory, the aim was to prevent the communist domination of South-East Asia. During this time Vietnam went into a war with both superpowers each supported a different side in the war.
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Both the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a nuclear arms race. Spending billions of dollars trying to build up a huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, crippling the economy and helped bring an end to the cold war.
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(Stabilization of the Cold War)
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This was a race during the Cold War, a competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R to develop aerospace capabilities, basically a race t see who could achieve the spaceflight capability. This showed the technological demonstrations and advancement between the two superpowers.
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The Soviet Union explodes it first hydrogen bomb, and began a series of Soviet hydrogen bomb tests. The bomb was created to counter the threat of America.
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A national uprising that began 12 days before Hungary viciously crushed the Soviet tanks and troops. The Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution. The revolution although a failure revealed the weakness of Eastern European communism. -
International crisis in the Middle east, where the Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal, which was controlled by the French and The British interests. The French, British and Israel invaded Egypt to recover control over the Canal. This was a turning point as there was a growing rift between the Atlantic Cold War Allies.
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The Soviet Union launched the Earth's first artificial satellite, as a result it intensifies the arms race and raised Cold War tensions. Both sides were working to created and develop new technology.
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An American U-2 spy plane was shot down while it was conduction espionage over the Soviet Union, the incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight, Eisenhower and Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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(Repeated Crises & Competition)
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JFK became the 35th president. JFK dealt with the Soviet Union by placing a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviets from bringing more military supplies. JFK demanded the missiles to be removed and destruction of the sites.
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Cuban exiles launched an invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the South Coast of Cuba, but it was failed operation led by the CIA during Kennedy's administration to push the Cuban leader from power.
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The crisis started when the Soviet Union launched a ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of armed forced in Berlin. This became conflict between the Soviet and the U.S. over the status of divide Germany city of Berlin, which led to the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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A confrontation between the U.S. and the USSR during the Cold War where the two were close to having an all out nuclear conflict. The two however came to the conclusion that missiles in Cuba would be withdrawn so long as America doesn't invade Cuba. -
The war was caused by the escalating steps taken by the Arabs. The war had a geopolitical consequence in the Middle East, the winner of the war led to a surge of national pride to Israel. The Soviet Union helped in arming the Arab sates.
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Vietnamization was a policy of the U.S. withdrawing their troops and transferring the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. This cut the involvement of America in Vietnam and allowed many U.S. troops to return home.
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The 37th President, he focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China. Nixon's policy of detente with both nations (despite the hostilities). Moving away from American's traditional American Policy of containment of communism, he hoped both sides would seek for American favour.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, this was a period in which the Soviet Union and the U.S. negotiated for the first agreements to place limits and restrains on some of their central and most important armaments.
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The nuclear competition arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare.