Cold War

By jjohnston14
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    Cold War

  • Satelite States

    from 1945-1949 the Soviet Union established Satelite States in Albania, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Hungary in order to better establish themselves in these countries to expand the "Soviet Empire"

  • Truman Doctrine

    An international relations policty set forth by Harry Truman where he stated that the United States would support Turkey and Greece if they came under the attack of the Soviet Empire

  • Marshall Plan introduced

    Named after Secretary of State John Marshall, the Marchall plan offered Western Europe and Soviet allies alike relief, the goal being reconstruction, dissolution of wartime barriers, and the revitalization of European trade, but was denied by the Soviets

  • Red Hunts

    Led by Richard Nixon, these were the first hunts for communist spies within the US government, he was aided by House Un American Activities commitee

  • NATO Formed

    Established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. Signed by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom, the treaty founded the North American Treaty Organization, abbreviated NATO. Applied the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction
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    Korean War

    A conflict that cenetered around Soviet support of communistNorth Korean troops as they fought against democratic South Koreans, and was the first military use of NATO

  • New Look Policy

    Name given to the Department of Defense's budget for hte year. It was the national security policy of the time. Balanced concern towards economy and the defense of the country.

  • Warsaw Pact Founded

    Signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the USSR, forming a counter-alliance that would become known as the Eastern or Communist Bloc.
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    Vietnam War

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    President Kennedy sends troops to Cuba's Bay of Pigs in attempts to unseat the revolutionary government. A massive tactical failure for the United States, the event prompted Castro’s public embrace of Marxism-Leninism, after which the Soviet Union began to support the newly founded socialist state and communist government.

  • Berlin Wall Constructed

    Constructed along the border of Soviet Occupied East Germany and independent West Germany, the wall prevented a potential massive influx of emigration from East to West in search of employment
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    A two week period of incredible proximity to the enactment Nuclear War, incited by the installment of Soviet Nuclear Warheads in newly communist Cuba.

  • Ich Bin Ein Berliner Speech

    A message of solidarity to German people in front of the Berlin Wall

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    An alleged attack on a USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam by North Vietnamese boats

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Effectively grants President Johnson permission to use military force against North Vietnamese, aggravating situation in Southeast Asia

  • Brezhnev Doctrine Introduced

    The doctrine limited the independence of satellite states in the Soviet Union among their local operating communist parties.

  • Ostpolitik

    Negotiations in Germany with thegoal of normalization of relations between East and West Germany. Iintercessions by politicians such as Henry Kissinger aimed at dissolving policies of the Christian Democratic Union and bring the two sides of Germany to civility

  • SALT I

    Bilateral discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, abbreviated SALT, commenced

  • Anti Ballistic Missiles Treaty

    The sgning of the Anti-Ballistic Missiles Treaty by President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev ended the negotiations known as SALT I

  • SALT II

    A second set of discussions based on the opposition of Nuclear Arms picked up where its predecessor left off

  • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

    Six Months after the signing of the SALT II Treaty, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, which leads to the treaty to not ever become ratified by the US Senate

  • Boycott of Moscow Olympics

    Soviet actions led to the American boyvott of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games

  • START I Begins

    Negotiations began on the bilateral nuclear disarmament treaty, the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), between the Soviet Union and the US

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Marking one of the greatest motions toward a thaw in relations was the fall of the Berlin Wall, a physical example of the breaking of barriers that was to come.

  • START I Signed

    START I bilateral treaty signed

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was dissilussioned on December 26th, 1991 by the Soviet Social Republic. It acknowledged the independence of all nations within the Soviet Union.