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Ho Chi Minh
Led the Vietenemese nationalist movement, for more than 3 decades, fighting against Japanese, French Power, and the US-backed Vietenemse. President of North Vietnam from 1954 until death. -
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet statesment, communist party official, was also the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years. -
Los Angeles Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics, held during the Great Depression which caused several of the athletes unable to pay for the trip to Los Angeles. Even President Hoover skipped the event. -
Lech Walesa
Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human rights activist. -
Iron Curtain
Symbolized the idealogical conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas after the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 -
VIetnam
Eastern most country in East Asia. 90.3 million-population. -
United Nations
International organization whose stated aim is to promote an international law to keep the countries "in order." -
Truman Doctrine
An international policy set out by Truman during a speech that stated that U.S. would support Greece and Turkey -
Marshall Plan
An American program to aid Europe, gave European countries economic aid during the time of WWII. -
European Economic Corporation
(OEEC), Established to create a permanet organisation to continue work on a on a joint recovery program and to supervise the distrubation of aid. -
Berlin Airlift
Airlift that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic treaty that was signed in April 4, 1949 -
People's Republic of China
Most recent political entity to govern mainland China. -
Korean War
War between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic Of Korea. Mainly a result from the political agreement between allies at the conclusion of the Pacific war at the end of WWII -
Khrushchev
First Secertary of the Communist Party from 1953-1964 -
KGB Committee for state secuirty
The main source of security for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its collapse in 1991. -
warsaw pact.
Mutual defense pact during the Cold War -
Geneva Accords
The Geneva Accords theoterically ended the war between French Union Forces and the Laos, Cambodia, and Vietenam. -
Suez Crisis
Military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt, Britain, France, Isreal, United States, and the Soviet Union -
Sputnik
FIrst artificial Earth satelite that the Soviet Union launched, provided information about the atmosphere and space, -
Berlin Wall is built
The Berlin wall is both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961-1989. Also was the symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Closest event that the world has ever come to having a nuclear war -
Tet Offensive
Military Campaign during the Vietnam war, campaign of surprising attacks that were launched against South Vietnam. -
Helsinki Accords
Major diplomatic agreement signed in Finland on the First Conference of Security and Coorporation in Europe -
Iranian hostage crisis
Diplomatic crisis between Iran and the U.S. 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days after a group of Islamatic students took over the American Embassy of Tehran. -
Moscow Olympics
1980 summer olympics, first one to be staged in Eastern Europe. -
Glasnost and Perestrokia
To refrom the distraught Soviet Union, they estabilished the "glasnost" and the "perestokia" policies throught the Party Secertary Mihkahli Gorbechev's. -
Chernobyl
A catasrophic nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant in Ukraine, which was under control of the central authroites of the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall is torn down
With the building of the wall arose several problems with the people of the two countries who wanted to see people who lived on the "other side" of the wall. -
Boris Yeltsin
Russian president, first of the Russian federation -
End of the USSR
The end of the Soviet Union came from the resignation of Mikhail S. Gorbachev to make way for a new "Commonwealth of Independent States." -
Vladimer Putin
Russian President since May 7, 2012 -
Explosion of first Hydrogen Bomb
First exploded in 1952 at Enewetak by the United States. -
Gorbachev
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Tiananmen Square
Large city square in the middle of Beijing, China; 3rd largest city square in the world -
Soviet War in afghanistan
War that lasted 9 years. from December 1979-February 1989. -
Stalin
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-20s until his death in 1953. Very paranoid man who built several underground bunkers throughout the country.
