Cold War

By Jarrett Foster

  • Chinese Civil War (between Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong)

    After American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed. The CCP defeated the nationalists in 1949. Westad says the communists won the Civil War because they made less military mistakes than Chiang Kai-Shek and because in his search for a powerful government, He antagonized too many interest groups in China.

  • Formation of NATO

    NATO was little more than a political association until the Korean War member states, and an good military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The course of the Cold War led to a rivalry with nations of the Warsaw Pact, which formed in 1955.

  • Berlin Blockaid

    The success of the Berlin Airlift brought embarrassment to the Soviets who had refused to believe it. This could make a difference. The blockade was lifted in May 1949 and resulted in the creation of two separate German states.

  • Berlin Airlift

    World War II, a delicate balance of power had surfaced between the once united Allies: Great Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union. The opposing economic structures of capitalism and communism emerged triumphant at the end of the war.

  • National Security Council Report NSC-68

    The report, known as NSC-68, was requested by President Truman on 31 January 1950, following a feasibility study of Both the US and the USSR acquiring thermonuclear weapons. He directed the secretaries of State and Defense ,to undertake a reexamination of our objectives in peace and war and of the effect of these objectives on our strategic plans.

  • Korean War

    It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. The Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II.

  • President Truman fires General MacArthur

    MacArthur led the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific during World War II, and after the war was in charge of the occupation of Japan. When North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950, starting the Korean War, he was designated commander of the United Nations forces defending South Korea.

  • Formation of the Warsaw Pact

    The Warsaw Treaty's organization was two-fold, the Political Consultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined Command of Pact Armed Forces controlled the assigned multi-national forces, with headquarters in Warsaw, Poland.