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Russian Communist Revolution
The final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia’s traditional monarchy with the world’s first Communist state. Vladimir Lenin, became the new government leader. -
Treaty of Versailles
This put too much pressure on Germany through financial demands and reparations for WW1. This was combined with sanctions on Germany’s military and political entities on an already weak Germany, this creates an opening for the Nazi party. -
League of Nations
Intergovernmental organisation founded on January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. -
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Deng Xiaoping
Led China through market economic reforms. He also opened China to foreign investment and the global market while encouraging private competition. He is credited with turning China into on of the fastest growing economy in the world for over 35 years. -
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Yalta Conference
Tensions over European issues- particular the fate of Poland- foreshadowing the crumbling of the Grand Alliance that developed between the U.S, G.B, and the S.U. This hinted for the Cold War to come. -
United Nations
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Nuremberg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. -
Baruch Plan
Proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) during its first meeting in June 1946. -
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Chinese Communist Revolution
China turned communist and created "China White Paper". This happened after WWII and was one of the many groups who were in a fight on political view differences. -
Iron Curtain Speech
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Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony(leadership or dominance) during the Cold War. The Doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. -
General Assembly
The large size of the assembly and the diversity of the issues it discussed contributed to the emergence of regionally based voting blocks. -
Marshall Plan
A program by which the U.S gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild. -
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
NATO created
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Berlin Wall
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Joseph McCarthy Speech
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Korean War
The Korean War has often been called America's "forgotten war". North Korea being communist and South Korea being nationalist, this caused many problems. This relates to the Cold War because the soviets supported North Korea and the United States supported the South. -
Warsaw Pact
The alignment of nearly every European nation into one of the two opposing camps formalized the political division of the continent. This alignment provided the framework for the military stand off that continued throughout the Cold War. -
Sputnik Launched
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Nuclear Detterent
Nuclear weapons of two or more nations, with reassurance of mutual destruction if used. Relates to the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
The Berlin Wall was the defending symbol of the Cold War, separating families and keeping the people from jobs and opportunity in the west. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. This became a large embarrassment to the United States and caused the nation to be viewed as weak. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Castro was the leader for communists across the world, so when he took over cuba, its close proximity to the United States of America was a large concern. This event directly leads to the blockade of Cuba and the Cuban Missle Crisis, both of which were major concerns and actions during the Cold War. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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U.S Sends Troops to Vietman
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Apollo 11
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Non- Proliferation Agreement
International treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Kent State Shooting
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SALT 1
Signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
Fall of Saigon
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Pope John Paul 2
Had to work and encounter life in Germany during Nazi power. Soon after his father died he decided to go into priesthood. -
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Margaret Thatcher
The only woman to hold power as Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. She implemented policies to reverse the high unemployment and recession of the economy. Her policies were successful and recovered the U.K's economy. -
SALT 2
Signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
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Soviets Invade Afhganistan
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
MAD
doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. -
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Lech Walesa
Well-known Polish labor leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is sworn in as the first non-communist president of Poland since the end of World War II. His victory was another sign of the Soviet Union’s lessening power and communism’s waning influence in Eastern Europe. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. Many did pass to the west and along the way the wall was turn up piece by piece. -
START 1
Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994. -
START 2
Put in place after START 1 to establish a limit on strategic weapons for each party. (U.S and S.U)
