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Chinese Communist Revolution
This is the chinese communist’s drive to power, the communists were fighting the nationalists who were receiving aid from the United States while the communists were receiving aid from the Soviet Union. The communists won leading to the name change of China into the “People’s Republic of China”. The connection to the cold war is that communism is what started the Cold War and communism is the key factor of the Chinese Communist Revolution.The Revolution ends February 12, 1912. -
Russian Communist Revolution
The Cold War was waged by the USSR to undermine the west and establish communism worldwide. Cold War tension developed between the U.S. and Soviet Union after WWII. The Soviets attempted to expand its influence into Western Europe, and the U.S. "containment" policy was to prevent the spread of westward Soviet influence and expansion. -
Treaty or Versailles
was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1. Following the fall of Germany in 1945, the United States, England, and the Soviet Union had to decide how best to handle Germany. The Cold War developed in disagreements between the United States and the Soviet Union, because of the fundamental differences between the two countries and the competition of the influence on other nations as the only superpowers after WWII. -
League of Nations
Was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.After the failure of the League of Nations, the United Kingdom did not achieve its ultimate goal to maintain peace and security throughout the Cold War -
Yalta Conference
8 day conference ended on February 11th,1945.The leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met to decide how they wanted to separate Germany among the three allies (Russia, England and USA).
Around this time marks the beginning of the Cold War. The division of Germany created tension between the superpowers. -
United Nations
The UN's mission to preserve world peace was complicated in its early decades by the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union and their respective allies and essentially failed to come to resolutions because the United States and the Soviet Union were both superpowers and would veto each other's ideas. No resolutions to the spread of communism could come about in terms of what the United Nations could do to help. -
Nuremberg Trials
This was held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the US government written by Bernard Baruch. The United States presents the Baruch Plan for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations. This connects to the Cold War because the United States, one of the superpowers during the Cold War, was trying to prevent the use of nuclear weapons. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy for countries that resisted communism. the Truman Doctrine agreed to help the countries by providing them economic and military aid. This Connects to the cold war because the cold war's main purpose and reason is the fight against communism. -
Marshall Plan
was created by the U.S. Secretary of State, George C Marshall. The Plan offered American aid to European countries under communist control.The goal was to stop communism from spreading even further. The plan was successful.
The Marshall Plan connects to the Cold War because it was created to help the countries being controlled by communism. -
Berlin Airlifts
These air lifts ended on May 12,1949, about a year after the first airlift.
was organized by Britain and the U.S. The airlift was sent to West Berlin to the people that the Soviets were depriving
This event connects to the Cold War because the Soviets were the people depriving the people in West Berlin. -
NATO
stands for North Atlantic Free Trade Organization. This was an alliance formed between the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and some countries in Europe.28 countries complete the Organization.
The treaty connects to the Cold War because it was created to stop The Soviets from dominating. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
Joseph McCarthy gave this speech warning of communism in America. He gave specific names of people working within the State Department and listed their crimes. Those individuals lost their jobs, even though McCarthy was never able to give any further evidence to prove their guilt. THe connection to the Cold War is that the whole speech was about communism which was the key factor that started the Cold War because the United States didn’t want communism to spread. -
Korean War
Korean war ended July 27th,1953 a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. The United Nations helped aid South Korea while China helped aid North Korea.
The Korean war connects to the cold war because conflict was created between the u.s. And soviets by trying to prevent communism within south korea. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Sputnik launched
a series of artificial satellites created by the Soviet Union which were the first to be placed into orbit. The event was apart of the Space Race, which was a competition between the U.S. and the Soviets.This connects to the cold war because in the the cold war it was a compettion of spreading their type of government. -
MAD
Mutual Assured destruction. This was the unspoken agreement between the Soviets and the U.S At this point both superpowers had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the earth 3 times. MAD connects to the cold war because in this unspoken agreement was created to avoid nuclear warfare and keep the Cold War "Cold with no direct fighting between the U.S and Soviets -
Bay of pigs invasion
an attempt by John F. Kennedy to overthrow the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro. The plan failed because Castro’s army stopped the troops that were sent by JFK.
This relates to the cold war because of our attempt to end communist leadership. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
divided West German (democracy)and East Germany(communism) during the Cold War. The Soviet's had control over East Germany and the United States, Great Britain, and French had control of West Germany. November 9,1989 the wall was taken down because 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. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This 2 week tense time finally ended October 28th,1962
the most tense part of the war because it was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The Soviet Union planted missiles in Cuba that were aimed at the U.S. President Kennedy ordered their removal or else he would invade Cuba. The U.S. also took down their missiles in turkey. The weapons were dismantled. -
Berlin Wall (fact)
The Berlin Wall underwent many changes. The first wall that was built overnight in august of 1961 was just heavy duty barbed wire guarded 24/7. It wasn't until 1965 that the concrete wall was erected. Many people from East Germany attempted to escape by jumping over the wall. Unfortunaly many died in the process of becoming free. This area of the wall was known as the "Death Strip". -
Nuclear Deterrent
Similar to MAD by avoiding Nuclear warfare and any direct contact fighting between the US and Soviets that would create a "hot" war. This connects the Cold war because without the US making deals and compromising with the soviet we would have created a Nuclear war. -
U.S sends troops to Vietnam
The U.S. and the Soviets wanted resources in Vietnam. The U.S. was allied with south Vietnam and the French. The Soviets were allied with North Vietnam. The war was caused by trying to stop the spread of communism because of the domino theory, which states that if one country fell to communism, they all would. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Fidel Castro succeeded in overthrowing the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Mindful of Batista's cruel record of repression, the U.S. government and the American public in general welcomed Castro's rise to power as a victory for democracy. American sympathy rapidly evaporated, however, when Premier Castro began to act and sound like a communist dictator, and failed to do what he promised he would, which lead to yet again another nation influenced by communism -
Apollo 11
This was the first US spacecraft set to go to the moon. The astronauts were Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. The connection to the Cold War is that it shares the same idea of competition as the cold war. The Soviet Union and the United States were competing to see who could get to the moon first, just like how they were competing to spread their government type. -
Iron Curtain Speech
delivered by Winston Churchill. An explanation of the division of Eastern and Western Europe. The iron curtain is a symbol of the divided European countries.
the iron curtain symbolized the separation of countries during the cold war. It set the stage for tension and conflict in years to come. -
Kent State Shooting
At Kent State University in Kent, OH, twenty-eight guardsmen opened fire on a crowd, killing four students and wounding nine. This connects to the Cold War, because Richard Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers, this provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. -
SALT l & ll
Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty,and the Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.The Treaty included regulation of anti-ballistics that can destroy incoming intercontinental missiles launched by other countries.Salt 2 set more specifics on these regulations. Each side had a limit of 2400 weapons systems.This connects to the Cold War because SALT is a corresponding international treaty between the Cold War superpower,U.S. and Soviet Union,on the issue of armament control. -
Margaret Thatcher
Came into power in 1979. By the time she left office, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Eastern Europe was liberated. A year later, the Soviet Union crumbled into the dustbin of history. Democracy and freedom were on the advance. -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon effectively marked the end of the Vietnam War. After the introduction of Vietnamisation by President Richard Nixon, US forces in South Vietnam had been constantly reduced leaving the military of South Vietnam to defend their country against the North. The Fall of Saigon, is essentially the fall of the capital, and marks the end of the war. -
Pope John Paul II
Helped to free Poland and fight off the spread of communism, which helped to end the Cold War in some fashion, due to the fact that he was helping to stop the spread of communism to another nation. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
This 10 year invasion finally ended February of 1989
in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989.This connects to the cold war because Communism started the Cold war, likewise with this invasion. -
Deng Xiaoping
joined China’s communist revolution, led by Mao Zedong, as a political and military organizer. War broke out against Japan in 1937 and Deng served as educational leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Army, helping it grow into a large military machine during the Communist Revolution, 1946-49. He connects to the Cold War because he was the communist leader of China during the Cold War. -
Berlin wall falls
divided West German (democracy)and East Germany(communism) during the Cold War. The Soviet's had control over East Germany and the United States, Great Britain, and French had control of West Germany. November 9,1989 the wall was taken down because 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. -
Lech Walesa
in 1990 Lech Walesa is sworn in as the first non communist president of Poland, his victory was another sign of the Soviet Union’s lessening power and communism’s waning influence in Eastern Europe, which was the cause of the Cold War (communism) -
START l &ll
treaty between U.S. and USSR on the limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was put into place on December 5, 1994, preventing from deployment of more than 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 ballistic missiles.This connects to the Cold War because during the Cold War and Cuban Missile Crisis both superpowers had easy access to extremely detrimental nuclear weapons and with how tight the tensions were both Superpowers were ready if the time came to use their nuclear weapon -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Non- Proliferration Agreement was an international agreement whose objective was to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology. This connects to the Cold War because during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War both superpowers were trying to prevent the use of nuclear weapons. -
General Assembly
The large size of the General Assembly and the diversity of the issues it discussed contributed to the emergence of regionally based voting blocs in the 1960s. During the Cold War the Soviet Union and the countries of eastern Europe formed one of the most cohesive blocs. Since the 1980s and the end of the Cold War, blocs have formed around “North-South” economic issues.
