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1950 BCE
Korean War
The Korean war was between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the North Korea and South Korea border
The connection between the cold war and the Korean war was that Korea was split into North and South Korea following failed negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to create on independent and unified Korea. -
Russian Communist Revolution
The Russian Communist Revolution was a pair of revolutions which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
Connection- The Russian Army was the largest in Europe, it had defeated Napoleon, but it was poorly trained, undersupplied, inadequately equipped, and unprepared. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles was the most influential peace treaty to the ending of World War I. The Treaty ended the war of Germany and allied powers, the treaty was created for a way that would punish Germany and meet the goals of the various Allied Powers.
This is connected because the bad outcome of the treaty led to the second World War, which eventually led to the Cold War. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
First communist state in Western Hemisphere after lead in an overthrow of the military dictatorship. Ruled over Cuba.
Connections- Fidel Castro held weapons in Cuba for Russia. -
MAD
Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a 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. This relates to the Cold war because at any given moment a country could use a nuclear bomb, MAD would start which means everyone would use the nuclears weapons they have. -
Nuremberg Trials
A series of Military tribunals held by allied forces under international law and the laws of war after WW2 notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the Political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
Connection- Due to the Cold War, subsequent trials never took place. The same courtroom in Nuremberg was the venue of the Nuremberg Military tribunal, organized by U.S. as occupying power in the area. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference brought together the Big Three Allied leaders,, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt. The main purpose of Yalta was the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany, which led to them demanding Germanys ultimate surrender.It helped lead to the Cold War by giving the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe, this led to the Cold War because it made the West feel that the USSR was bent on expanding communism. -
United Nations
Was the second multipurpose international organization. Tasked to maintain international peace and security.
Connection- During the cold war, the United Nations was in a state of stalemale, meaning dreadlock. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The name for the boundary dividing Europe into 2 seperate areas from the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War =.
Connection- Its popularity as a cold war symbol is its use in a speech Winston churchill gave in March 5th, 1946 -
General Assembly
The General Assembly was to supervise, have financial control, and elective functions relating to anything to deal within the UN Charter. Its primary role is to discuss issues and make recommendations, though it has no power to enforce its resolutions (just ideas). This connects to the Cold War because the United Nations quickly became a Cold War battleground between communist and non-communist countries. The US and Soviets had to have joint permission over many ideas. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Happened after the end of the second Sino-Japanese War, and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. It was the combination of the Chinese Communist party's drive to power after funding in1921
Connection - Mao Zedong led communist forces in China through a long revolution. Mao is considered one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War. -
Baruch Plan
The U.S., Great Britain, and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy .
Connections- Advocate the use of automatic sanctions if countries were found to be in violations of the agency's terms. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman stated that the U.S. would provide political, military and economic assistance to democratic nations in danger from external or internal forces. President Truman said that the United States would do anything to contain the spread of communism and stop the communist spreading Soviet Union. This was connected to the Cold War because it was stopping the spreading of communism, allying the western powers and was essentially the U.S. versus the Soviets once again. -
Nuclear Deterrent
The threat of retaliation for a proscribed behavior, generally attack upon the threatening starter.
Connection- Deterrence theory increased prominence as a military strategy during the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western economies after the end of World War II, the countries were required to only use the money to buy from US businesses, which caused a boost in the US's economy, as well as strengthening the west, which would aid to stop the spread of communism. This is related to the Cold War because it reduced the influence of communist parties in the western nations. -
Berlin Airlift
Because of the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the city. For close to a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. This connects to the Cold War because it strengthened Cold War tensions and made the USSR appear selfish and cruel. -
NATO Created
Established by 12 Western nations. The military aliiance, which provided for a collective self-defense agaisn't soviet aggression, greaty-increated American influence group.
Connection- During the Cold War, from its foundings 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 Warshaw part Allie -
Joseph McCarty Speech
Experienced a meteoric rise in natural profile in 1950, when he gave a Lincoln day speech to the Republican women's club of Wheeling
Connection - McCarthyism can be defined as the time of anti-communist hysteria during the red scare in the 1950's Cold War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a military and political alliance between the soviet union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and Romania. The Soviet Union formed this to be in a rivalry with The North Atlantic treaty organization (WATO) which stated the countries would help another if any of them were involved in foreign aggression
It is connected to the cold war because it was used to unite the soviet union and western Europe to invade the WATO, and continue to spread communism -
Sputnik Launched
Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite. It was successful .
Connection- Sputnik was the first artificial satellite ever launched into space because it was a Russian accomplishment. The U.S. immediately hurried to catch up with them. This competition was a major characteristic of the Cold War. -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
In an effort to limit the amount of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany began building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. It essentially showed the lack of freedom under communism.
It related to the Cold War because it symbolized the divide between the communist Soviets. and the western democratic, capitalists. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an failed invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. This connects to the Cold War because the invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from spreading to America. -
Berlin Wall
In the beginning of the Cold War, West Berlin made a lot of people from East Germany move to the West. In effect of this, the Communist East Germany authorities built a wall that isolated West Berlin. This connects with the Cold War because it was an example of the Iron Curtain that separated the democratic Western countries and the Eastern Europe communist countries during the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
In the beginning of the Cold War, West Berlin made a lot of people from of East Germany moved to the West. Which led to the Communist East German authorities building a wall that isolated West Berlin from the rest. This was significant to the Cold War because it demonstrated the Iron Curtain that separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13 day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
Connection: The whole idea was to not have nuclear conflict -
United States send troops to Vietnam
The United States sent troops to Vietnam to prevent communists takeover of south Vietnam, which was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the overall aim of stopping the spread of communism
The connection of the United States sending troops to Vietnam was that the United States have been involvement with Vietnam since the Cold War with the economic aid with the Marshall plan, as well as political and military leaders and soldiers. This shaped the Vietnam War. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
An agreement signed by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged heir coorperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology.
Connection- Both didn't want nuclear conflict -
Apollo 11
Spaceflight landed the first 2 people on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
Connection- The Soviets and America were engaged in a race for space, and the Soviets were ahead of the Americans. To land on the moon would show the U.S superiority. -
Kent State Shootings
Shooting of unarmed college students for protesting against bombing of Cambodia by the U.S military forces. Killed four student, wounded nine
Connections- It was connected to the Cold War because the shootings were the result of a protest against the Vietnam War. -
SALT
SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the USSR in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. The connection with the Cold War is that it was between the US and the USSR and was to deal with the big problem of nuclear weapons and buildup. -
Fall of Saigon
It marked the end of the Vietnam war and the start of the transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the socialists republic of Vietnam
Connection- Did not want to have conflict. Agreed. -
Deng Xiaoping
A Chinese politician. Was the paramount leader.
Connection- Joined the communist party. Joined a party organization in Shanghai -
Pope John Paul II
A vocal advocate for human rights, John Paul often spoke out about suffering in the world. He held strong positions on many topics, including his opposition to capital punishment The efforts of anti-communist leaders, such as Pope John Paul II ]did not make the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable. However, these leaders did hasten the end of the Cold War and the fall of Soviet communism, particularly in Eastern Europe -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
They had Amin put to death and installed their own leader, president Babark karmal. Over the next years the Soviet army would battle with the Mujahideen.
Connection: In December of 1979, In the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the peoples democratic party of Afghanistan agaisn't a growing insurency. -
Margaret Thatcher
A Prime minister. She was the "iron lady" which is associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
Connection- She believed strongly in the Anglo-American alliance and back Reagan's more active pursuit of the Cold War. -
Lech Walesa
Lech Wales declared president of Poland in 1990. He was a leader of labor unions, and cared about individual rights. Lech was the first noncommunist president since WW2. This is connected to the war because Poland eventually separated from the Warsaw Pact. This action led to a decrease in Soviet support. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Cold War was coming to a close in 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. This connects to the Cold war because this marked the end of the war. -
START
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the USSR on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. This is related to the Cold War because it dealt with the rivalry of USSR and US and the big problem of nuclear weaponrey and buildup.
