Events of the cold war

By myaunna
  • U.S. nation

    U.S. nation
    The U.S then made a pact for those who did not want to be the same and wanted to trade. With who ever they wanted with out having to do a all voted thing and wanted others to vote freely for who ever they and to vote for.
  • Truman

    Truman
    President Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a policy, aptly characterized as the Truman Doctrine.
  • Soviet-Afghan War

    Soviet-Afghan War
    Cold War" to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. when it was announced
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    Concerned that the Soviet Union and Communist China might have encouraged this invasion. President Harry S. Truman committed United States air ground and naval forces to the combined United Nations forces assisting the Republic of Korea in its defense.
  • Cuban Rev

    Cuban Rev
    Batista was driven from the country and the cities Santa Clara and Santiago de Cuba were. Seized by revolutionaries, led by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's surrogates Raúl Castro and Huber Matos, respectively.
  • Race

    Race
    When the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement of their similar intent to launch artificial satellites. The space race has its origins in the nuclear arms race between the two nations following the Second World War.
  • NATO

    NATO
    The soviet Union and seven other soviet satellite states. meaning that they made a pact for those who want to be communist
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    limit Soviet power in Southeast Asia and halt the spread of communism. Also the first American death was in 1945
  • Suez crisis

    Suez crisis
    The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab/Israeli War, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British, French ,Israeli invasion of Egypt
  • U-2

    U-2
    United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air defence Forces
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    U.S. intelligence discovered evidence of a general Soviet arms build-up on. Cuba, including Soviet 28 something bombers, during routine surveillance flights.
  • Berlin Crisis of 1961

    Berlin Crisis of 1961
    Prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere. Meaning they still wanted the U.S. to feel free and not controlled.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Soviets sought to prop up the country's communist government in its battle with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas. read and off goggle btw :)
  • Fall

    Fall
    communist hardliners and military elites tried to overthrow Gorbachev and stop the failing reforms in a coup but failed. The turmoil led to the government in Moscow losing most of its influence. and many republics proclaiming independence in the following days and months.