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Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Yalta Conference
The yalta conference was a plan to finalize the defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. Conference to split up the land of the germans.This conference led to the cold war by giving the soviet union control over eastern europe this made the west feel that the ussr was bent on expanding communism -
Potsdam conference
A conference held by the big three to decided the fate and punishments of germany post wwII. This conference failed to solve most of the big issues thus creating tension and leading to the cold war. -
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Bombing
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasak. This action by the US sparked the arms race witch drove the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
An american foreign policy to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. Truman pledge to contain soviet threats to greece and turkey. Truman also said he would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces -
Brussels Treaty
The Treaty of Brussels was signed on 17 March 1948 between Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, as an expansion to the preceding year's defence pledge, the Dunkirk Treaty signed between Britain and France. -
Marshall Plan
A plan to give 13 million to european countries to rebuild after wwII The Marshall Plan also reduced the influence and power of Communist parties in Western Europe. This angered the Soviet Union and was seen as another anti-communist move by the USA, following the Truman Doctrine. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockadewas one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
NATO is a military alliances between several north american and european states Nato creates the idea of a collective defense. NATO's primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact. -
Soviet creation of Nuclear Weapons
On August 29th, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. This event ends America's monopoly of atomic weaponry and launches the Cold War. In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. -
Korean war
Overshadowed by WWII, the Korean War has often been called America's "forgotten war," though like Vietnam it was part of a larger Cold War struggle to extinguish communism. In 1950, North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea, which was an American ally. -
Stalin's Death
Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions. In 1955, Austria regained its sovereignty and became an independent, neutral nation after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country. The next year, Khrushchev denounced Stalin and his policies at the 20th Communist Party conference. In early 1956, Khrushchev called for "peaceful coexistence" between the East and West. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, It was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, for NATO in 1955 called the warsaw pact. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War can be considered a "proxy" war in the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not directly go to war, they each supported a different side in the war. The Viet Cong were Vietnamese rebels in the South who fought against the Southern Vietnam government and the United States. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and protection for Northern America. This was important in the cold war because of the space race and joint protection. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. Following the cuban revolution castro formed strong ties with th soviet union. This cause th US to engage in the cold war. -
Creation of Berlin wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic. starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it -
End of cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis comes to a close as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from Cuba in exchange for a promise from the United States to respect Cuba's territorial sovereignty. -
Nuclear Arms Treaty
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an 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. -
Fidel Castro takes over
At the height of the Cold War, on 1 January 1959, a guerrilla army led by Fidel Castro defeated the US-backed Batista government. Attempts by the US government to undermine Castro's new administration, coupled with similarities of ideology, pushed Cuba into the arms of the Soviet Union. -
Afghanistan/Soviet war
The Afghan War. In the history of Afghanistan, the internal conflict between anti- Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan communist government (aided from 1979 to 1989 by Soviet troops). The roots of the war lay in the overthrow of the centrist Afghanistan government. -
Solidarity in Poland
In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country. Solidarity gave rise to a broad, non-violent, anti-communist social movement that, at its height, claimed some 9.4 million members. It is considered to have contributed greatly to the fall of communism. -
Berlin Wall Falling
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Czechoslovakia Revolution
This uprising, which is also referred to as the Prague Spring of 1968, was another rebellion caused by discontent with Soviet policies, this time in Czechoslovakia. This was another instance of a country under Soviet Control struggling to break free and form a more capitalistic, democratic government. -
End of the Cold war
On 3 December 1989 the Cold War ‘officially’ ended when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met with US president George Bush aboard a Soviet ship docked at Malta’s Marsaxlokk harbour. The summit and joint press conference had the appearance of a friendly, diplomatic conclusion to a protracted conflict spanning four decades, nine American presidents, wars in Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Berlin blockade.
