Cold War

By Kaitlyn McRae

  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12 and further devloped on July 12, when he pleged to to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey
    To fend off communism and stay free
    Military and Economic form

  • Marshall Plan (ERP)

    European Recovery Plan
    16 countries received aid
    $13 billion in aid given to rebuild the Soviet Union and Western Europe
    Offered to Eastern Europe, Soviet Union said NO!
    Economic form

  • Cold War

    1947-1991

  • Berlin Aircraft

    Stalin cut off supplies into West Berlin
    The U.S airlift food and supplies into the city
    Lasted 11 months
    Stalin re-opened supply lines.
    Economic form

  • NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    Collective security
    Alliance to support one another militarily
    Had to be a democracy
    Military and Political Form

  • 38th Parallel

    38th Parallel
    The 38th parallel is the sepaeration of North Korea and South Korea, after the war ended in a stalemate.

  • Korean war

    From 1950-1953

  • S.E.A.T.O

    S.E.A.T.O
    South East Asian Treaty Organization
    The U.S plus 7 other nations
    To prevent the domino theory
    Political and Military form

  • Ho Chi Minh

    Ho Chi Minh was a communist leader of North Vietnam, and he was fighting againt the South Vietnamese Army to win the land of Vietnam

  • Vietnam War

    1955-1975

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Like Truman Doctrine but for the middle east
    Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the middle eat
    Economic form

  • Space Race

    Space Race
    The Soviet Union Launches a female dog into space on Sputnik II. They were the first to launch into space, further starting the space race.

  • ARVN

    The Army Republic of Vietnam. This was also known as the South Vietnamese Army

  • Berlin Wall

    This wall separated East and West Berlin, cutting off all trade and travel routes out of East Berlin. Outrage from the separated places began to tear down the wall

  • Agent Orange

    Agent Orange is a herbicide mixture made by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. This toxic chemilcal killed many.

  • Gulf of Tonkin

    The U.S. attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. They "attacked" the gulf of tonkin which initianted the vietnam war, but may have been a hoax.

  • My Lai Massacre

    Americal division's 11th infrantry arrived in the hamlet of MY Lai in the Nothern part of south vietnam. They were on a search and destroy mission

  • Moon Landing

    Moon Landing
    While the cold war was happeneong, many events still went on. The United States finally reached the moon, and we were the first to do so.

  • Draft Lottery

    Before the Vietnam war, the U.S had a draft where a bunch of young men's names were placed into a big lottery thing, and names were pulled.

  • The Soviet Union Falls

    The soviet union finally fell after the west had victory. In 1991 in turned into Russia, and communisom no longer reigned there.

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    Soviet Union Collapses
    Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Bors Yeltsin as the new president of newly founded Russia

  • Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet formed an alliace with its satalite nations to contridict NATO