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The Cold War
The Cold War was a period of tension that existed between western powers (Europe, UK, USA, Canada etc) and the Soviet Union (Communist Russia etc). It started about 1946 , shortly after the Second World War, when the Soviet Union showed that it had no intention of removing its forces from the areas of Europe it had taken over during the war. It produced an arms race and led to various crises and alerts. -
United Nations
The establishment of the United Nations was the international organization responsible for ensuring peace and cooperation between world nations and to settle arguments in the world between countries. It greatly helped the Nation get along and stay nuetral or in peace with others. Even after the Cold War ended, many looked to the United Nations with hope of making a stronger and safer planet for everyone. The Iron Curtain was a division that could've possibly been taken down by the UN. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is a boundary which divided Europe into two separate zones, symbolically, politically and physically .This began at the end of World War II and continued until the end of the Cold War, i.e. from about 1945 to 1990. With the Iron Curtain in place, some of the Eastern and Central European countries were under the political influence of the Soviet Union. Due to the Soviets being communists, this caused a red scare to the Americans. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was an American politician originally aligned with the United States Democratic Party and later with the United States Republican Party. McCarthy served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. During his ten years in the Senate, McCarthy and his staff became notorious for aggressive investigations of people in the U.S. government and others suspected on grounds of their political beliefs as Communists or Communist sympathizers, of being Soviet agents. -
Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy
During the 1950s, there was much concern over the threat of communism. An announcement by Senator Joseph McCarthy stated that communists had infiltrated the U.S. This initiated a frenzied hunt for communists, known as the Red Scare or McCarthyism. Hundreds of Hollywood writers & entertainers were falsely accused of being communists, which ultimately crippled their careers. The red scare affected the US by accusing the wrong people of something they weren't. This then led to a containment policy. -
Truman Doctrine and Containment
Containment was basically the U.S. accost to preventing the spread of communism after WWll and the idea of it was to make other countries think wisely and to avoid attempting communism. The Truman Doctrine was an aggressive policy of containment of Soviet expansion. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey ( and they as well supported the U.S.) with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Later that year, the US wanted to somewhat help Europe. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was created after World War II. George Marshall, the U.S. Secretary of State, believed that there could not be stability or lasting peace unless Europe's economy was rebuilt and restored. This plan also generated jobs for Americans, who went to Europe as technical advisers & helped distribute and make plans for the rebuilding. Under the Marshall plan, food and clothing were also shipped to Europe. Along also came the Berline Airlift -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was when cargo planes delivered all food, fuel, and other essential goods to the people living in West Berlin during an eleven-month period of the Cold War. This was due to the Soviet Communist forces that tried to isolate the British, French, and American sectors of the city to try to block the Western governments into making their portion of the city after Germany. Everything seemed to be fine there, but maybe not in North and South Korea after a few years. -
Korean War
After WWll, the U.S. occupied South of Korea. The Soviets, occupying the North & attacking their chinese possesions, installed a puppet government & supplied it with weapons & trainers which then had them attack the South. With surprise, the U.S. reacted along with the UN which caused North Korea to be quickly destroyed. The Soveits then sent Chinese troops to war where they fought armed & trained by the soviets. As a result, the war evolved into a stalemate and North Korea remained in communism -
CIA
The CIA's main goal during the cold war was to help prevent the spread of communism. The CIA actually offered military support, consisting in weapons, to Afghanistan in their conflict against the Russians. They also then made their way into aslo helping with the upcoming Vietnam War. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Communism had spread to Asia, and spread to Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist, while South Vietnam was not. The North Vietnamese Army (NVA) attacked South Vietnam to take control over it, and make that communist as well. The U.S., against spreading communism, decided to help the South in stopping the spread of this terrible idea. -
Hawks and Doves
During the Vietnam War, America was split in half. One side side was called the Hawks and they were the side that wanted to increase military force and send more troops into Vietnam to win the war and the Doves on the otherhand, wanted the opposite and wanted the troops to be withdrawn and settle the war with peace. During the Hawks vs Doves protests of the Vietnam war, Jim Hanson was the leader of the Hawks. Later on, the races between Russia and the US did not end and not even space was safe. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the period or a crisis when the Americans reacted to the Sputnik program. Sputnik is a Russian word meaning satellite.The establishment of the satellite was the key because that led to the world war event. Besides being the very first satellite to be put successfully into orbit around the earth, Sputnik demonstrated the USSR's superiority in rocket technology. It scared the average American; made them ponder some of the troubles that they could do with their advanced rocket knowledge -
Space Race
The cold war space race was when Russia and America were competing against each ther to see who could go to space first. It was one of the contests between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to decide who was the greater and better country. The space race was a demonstration by the USA and CCCP that each had rockets of sufficient power and accuracy to bomb the other's country. This conflictive contest all started when the Russians launched the first satelite "Sputnik," and it all escalated from that. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs is an area in Cuba that was invaded in 1961 by a group of Cuban exiles who were organized and armed by the US CIA. It was a huge failure and became a major embarassment to the United States. The CIA's plan was to invade southern Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban government. Although it was an embaressment to the U.S., they did not quite in trying to invade Cuba, which caused for the Cuban Missile Crisis later the next year. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis is the building of nuclear missile station in Cuba by the Soviet Union, so that Cuba could defend itself from being invaded by the US, following the US failed attempt of invading Cuba the previous year. The Cuban Missile Crisis was averted on October 28, when an agreement was reached between the US and Soviet Union for the dismantling and removal of the nuclear weapons.
