Cold War

By Destiny young

  • What are the causes of the cold war

    What are the causes of the cold war
    American fear of communist attack, Truman's dislike of Stalin
    USSR's fear of the American's atomic bomb USSR's dislike of capitalism,USSR's actions in the Soviet zone of Germany.

  • Why did the cold war start

    Why did the cold war start
    The Cold War was the great rivalry between the communist Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its Western allies that began after World War II. The creation of NATO helped prevent the Cold War from becoming a hot war that would have led the world to nuclear Armageddon.

  • Harry Trumam

    Harry Trumam
    Truman doctrine s\aid is aimed at saving Greeece and Trukey

  • The Hydrogen bomb

    The Hydrogen bomb
    1952-The first H-bomb is detonated by U.S

  • Dwight D.Eisenhower

    Dwight D.Eisenhower
    1953-Stalin dies,1975-Sputnik launches the U.S. and Soviets into a space race

  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The year was 1947, he gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey.To fend off communism and stay free.

  • Marshall plan

    Marshall plan
    Started in 1947, European Recovery plan,16 countries received $13 billion in aid given to rebuild Western Europe.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    Started in 1948 Stalin cut off supplies into W, Berlin, U.S airlift food and supplies into the city.

  • Nato

    Nato
    Started in 1949 North Atlantic treaty organization,collective security.

  • Seato

    Seato
    Started in 1954 South East Asian treaty organization, U.S and other nations.

  • Eisenhower doctrine

    Eisenhower doctrine
    Started in 1957 like Truman Doctrine but for the middle east.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident
    Johnson was not soft on Communism, the U.S. attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin; allowed President Johnson to send more troops to Vietnam without two declarations of the war,Was it a hoax.

  • escalation

    escalation
    The U.S. troops were led by Gen.William Westmore land.Due to the draft, the U.S. troops number 540,000 by 1968,draft was seen as unfair to blacks and poor

  • Rosa parks

    Rosa parks
    Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Berlin wall

    Berlin wall
    On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin.

  • The Little Rock nine

    The Little Rock nine
    The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957