Cold War and the Effects

By dxh2764
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    Cold War

  • Balfour Decleration

    The Balfour Declaration which was based on the zionist principles of creating a Jewish state near Jerusalem

  • Paris Peace Conference

    Support for the Zionist movement in the Paris Peace Conference by the allies. Israel was not actually created yet and the Zionist movement actually goes all the way back to the 1890s.

  • Jews Protest

    Jews protest non violently for a state, Palestinians want complete governmental control in the area.

  • Phillippines Get Independence

    The US finally grants the Philippines the freedom they were promised. However they maintained their military basis in the area. Phillippines get independence

  • Day of Direct Action and the Divided State

    The Day of Direct Action was a call for Muslim independence. Advocates of the Muhammad Ali Jinnah (head of the Muslim league) feared Hindu domination and wanted a new state. Gandhi and some members of the Indian National Congress such as Nehru envisioned the horrors of a divided state. Day of Direct Action and the Divided State

  • Push to Create the State of Israel

    British are like screw this and they just hand over enforcement to the United Nations. The UN including the US push to create the state of Israel and the Palestinians get mad and Civil War in the area breaks out.

  • French Resize Vietnam

    After being ousted the French come to re seize power in Vietnam and in the process bomb much of the communist north. Temporarily take control, but the vietnamese practice guerrilla warfare.

  • War of Kashmir

    War broke out over control of Kashmir and when the Pakistanis lost they sided with the US and India although first non aligned sided with the Soviets.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Independence of India and Pakistan. Many people had to make the difficult journey so they could be on the side of their religion.

  • Independence of India and Pakistan

    Independence of India and Pakistan. Many people had to make the difficult journey so they could be on the side of their religion.

  • Gandhi Killed

    Gandhi was killed by Hindu extremist after always being an advocate of nonviolence.

  • Marshall Plan

    The Marshall plan, basically a stimulus package got the USA back on it’s feet quickly and lead to the strong selling points of the US which was their ability to create consumer goods quickly and effectively, comparing to the Soviets failure to make any industrial domestic products. Just look at the Russian’s terrible automotive technology today multiply by ten and you have Soviet Union.

  • Jewish State Created

    Jewish state created and most of the Arab states in the region rise up to the aid of their fellow Palestinians (pan-Arab nationalism). War and the greatly outnumbered Jews are able to hold off the attack and even expand their land. There is resentment even to this day between the present Israelis and the Palestinians.

  • Creation of the Communist People's Republic of China

    Creation of the communist People's Republic of China under Mao Tse-tung. This guy said that peaceful coexistence (communism and capitalism together) was impossible, however other marxist and capitalist believed it was possible. Peaceful coexistence was proposed by Khrushchev, a peace between different social systems and the achievement of communism by peaceful means. Khrushchev fostered this peace with the United States and it appeared to work in Soviet and eastern european societies. Khrushch

  • Blockade of West Berlin

    The Soviets installed a blockade of west Berlin, so the US and it’s allies just airlifted food and supplies enough to last the winter.

  • Israeli-Palestinian Truce

    Israeli-Palestinian truce. This fight was an example of a Proxy War- a war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate. During the cold war this was common because the two superpowers (United States and Soviet Union) did not want to fight each other directly since it would have caused a nuclear war.

  • Chinese Aid

    The Chinese sent aid to the Northern Vietnamese in Viet Minh and the French lose and are forced to sue for peace. Chinese Aid

  • Germany Created

    After the collapse of the Third Reich, the US, UK, Soviet union and France occupied Germany and Berlin. Cooperation between the Soviet Union and America dissolved and France, the US, and the UK formed West Germany aka the Federal Republic of Germany. West Germany created

  • The Second Sex

    Simone de Beauvoir wrote the Second Sex which denounced the second class status of women. This is a precursor to later books, media and propagandist declarations.

  • Divided Germany

    Between 49 and 61 over 3.5 million East Germans migrated to the Western side, many of them young, skilled workers. This was a huge embarrassment for the communist leaders, so they divided Germany with barbed wire, mine, guards, and eventually a wall. France, the US, and the UK didn’t do anything since they were scared of it escalating into a full war.

  • Arms Race

    Arms race starts between the US and the Soviets. America wanted to counteract the power of the Soviet forces in Europe.

  • East Germany Created

    East Germany aka the German Democratic Republic was formed. This was a good indication of the start of the Iron Curtain (an ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas) in which the East tries to shield itself from the west and the capitalist philosophies but this actually went both ways.

  • Containment

    Senator Joseph McCarthy tried to expose communists in the USA basically a mirror of the policies of containment. Radicals lost jobs and reputation and a push for family life was implemented.

  • Korea Split

    Korea split along the 38th parallel between the communist soviets in the North and the democratic US in the South

  • Korean Back and Forth

    Pyongyang regime wanted to unify and marched into SK and pushed them back to their capital Seoul. Well the US managed to convince the UN that this was a communist push and within two weeks, with combined forces, they pushed NK back to Pyongyang. China got mad and pushed the US and it’s allies back.

  • Nassar's Coup

    Nassar the soon to be president of Egypt stages a bloody coup in which King Farouk is forced to leave the throne. He wished to stay non aligned however he let the US and Soviets give him money in fake pushes of alignment. This practice of non alignment was called Third World although today it has a different meaning.

  • Mau Mau

    A secret Kikuya society known as Mau Mau embarked on a violent campaign against Europeans and African traitors. The Mau Mau tried to seize power, but almost no one wants them and the British declare a state of emergency and step in.

  • Ceasefire at the 38th Parallel

    Both sides (North and South Korea) agreed to a ceasefire at the 38th parallel; however no peace treaty was ever signed to end the war.

  • The Southeast Asian Treaty Organization

    The Southeast Asian Treaty Organization which was a counterpart of NATO. The basic aims were to stop the spread of communism.

  • Peace Conference

    Peace conference in Gineva tries to unify the two Vietnams along the 17th parallel, with the north controlled by Ho Chi Minh and the communists, while the south was in the hands of non communists.

  • Domino Theory

    President Eisenhower accepted the principles of the domino theory, which states that if one state became communist the rest would soon become communist also. This justified US interference in Asian/ European countries.

  • Brown vs. the Board of Education

    The famous Brown vs. the Board of Education ruled segregation is schools illegal however it wasn’t until later that it actually became illegal as a result of activists such as MLK Jr.

  • British crush the Mau Mau

    The British crush the Mau Mau uprising but nationalist Kenyans ultimately prevail

  • Bandung Conference

    The leaders of new African and Asian countries first discusses non alignment at the Bandung Conference. Wanted a third path, and alternative to choosing between the Soviet Union and the United States. Also the prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru was a defender of non alignment. Failure since there was no unification and a state was inevitable more or less aligned with either the US or Soviet Union.

  • Warsaw Pact

    Then as a response to NATO, the Warsaw Pact was enacted. This was also called the Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955–1991), more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact. This is basically a treaty between 8 communist states.

  • France Granted Independence

    France granted independence to its colonies in Morocco and Tunisia to focus its attention on Algeria.

  • Nassar Monatized the Suez Canal

    Nassar monatizes the Suez Canal and pisses allot of people off. British, French, and Israeli forces take the canal easily and Soviets try to stop it and develop a reputation of Arab nationalism and anti-imperialism. The US condoned the actions of the British, French, and Israelis because it was a dumb diplomatic move because now allot of Asian countries are not the biggest fans of the US and it’s allies.

  • Ghana Became Independent

    Ghana became independent which was a result of black nationalism and a strive for African independence. Nkrumah was the leader of the first free African State to gain independence. This motivation came in the form of songs and poems. Infact later huge pictures of the Nkrumah and the queen were erected. Independence Of Angola and Zimbabwe came later.

  • Fidel Castro Comes to Power

    Fidel Castro comes to power, with speeches and rallies of how the country a former “satellite state” of the US, of whom they were heavily dependent on sugar consumption. Castro steps in, overthrew Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar and the US cuts sugar imports.

  • State of emergency on Kenya is lifted

    State of emergency on Kenya is lifted

  • Khrushchev's Visit

    Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet to walk on American soil and the people can now see him as a man and not just a demon. He is cordial and gracious.

  • Kitchen Debate

    The famous or infamous kitchen debate in which Khrushchev (Served as first secretary of the communist party, partially responsible for destalinization. Some of his policies were viewed as as erratic) and Nixon argue fundamental differences in policy. Nixon and the US were exhibiting a house which he claimed any American could afford. Furthermore arguments on the role of women and other problems were discussed.

  • Equal Forces

    The Soviet Union had developed had become equal to the power of the US in terms of nuclear and thermonuclear power.

  • Cuba and USSR are Buddies

    Cuba under their new leader is in economic hardship and the Soviets give them a life raft, which Castro gladly accepts. He openly supports the USSR’s foreign policy.

  • Berlin Wall

    Nikita Khrushchev approved the East germans to build the Berlin Wall, to stop the flow of East Germans to the West.

  • The Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs, an attempt to cause internal uprising by the CIA and Authorized by John F. Kennedy completely failed. US prestige in the area is now down and this might have been the open door, the Soviet’s needed to step in with their missiles.

  • I Have Been a Marxist-Leninist All Along

    Castro says “I have been a Marxist-Leninist all along, and will remain one until I die.” This solidifies the American’s fear of both the spread of communism and the possible impending doom.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Two years before the crisis, Fidel Castro Ruz overthrew the regime that had gone to great lengths to maintain a relationship with the U.S. Castro exiled thousands of political opponents imposing an export embargo of U.S. goods on Cuba. At this point, because of loosening ties between Cuba and U.S., the Soviet Union stepped in to purchase half of Cuba’s sugar production. Castro then declared his support for the USSR’s foreign policy and soon enough announced his Marxist-Leninist routes. U.S.’ i

  • The Feminine Mystique

    The Feminine Mystique was published which once again signified feminist discontent with the the female role and the idealized female role. The ideal role was for a family mom however this was far from true and women at the time were actually working more than they ever had even more than the total war of WW2.

  • Are They the Same?

    The book The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, highlighted how to different political systems had become similar and how both sides had forgone their morality. There were however still fundamental differences in beliefs and ideologies of both sides.

  • Kenya has negotiated independence.

    Kenya has negotiated independence.

  • Increased American Involvement in Vietnam

    Following Eisenhower's policy of the domino theory, Lyndon Johnson increased American involvement in Vietnam. However the Viet Cong aka the NLF or national liberation front (communist in the south) stopped the massive effort and the best the US could do was a draw.

  • Decrease in Domestic Containment

    Discontent with the Vietnam war and feminist and Black Nationalism all lead to a decrease in domestic containment.

  • Mutually Assured Destruction

    Both superpowers had so many weapons that MAD (mutually assured destruction) was then inevitable as a result of an attack and retaliation. However this actually created a forced calm, as both sides lived in fear. Basically the principles of Deterrence- war strategy of using nuclear powers and a military alliance system. Each nuclear power maintains a high level of instant and overwhelming destructive capability against any rival. It relies on two basic conditions: the ability to fight back aft

  • Get Up Stand Up

    The song “Get up Stand Up” by Bob Marley reflected the black (African) sentiment throughout America, the Caribbean and African states of the oppression, discrimination and racism experiences.