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Atomic Bomb
The five ton bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by the American Bomber Enola Gay -
Communists win in China
During China's war with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had moved his forces deep into the interior, leaving a political vacuum in the east to be filled by the Communists. -
Buffer States of The USSR
Buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II, and to when they were communist states after World War II. #Detente -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
United States aid to Greece
military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek -
Marshall Plan
initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
NATO established
an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries -
USSR and the Atomic Bomb
The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” #DominoTheory -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950. #MutallyAssuredDestruction -
Coup in Iran
the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh -
Coup in Guatemala
A covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence -
Communist Angola
was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola founded in October 1955. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
A defence treaty signed in Warsaw. -
Troops in Vietnam
was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Suez Canal Crisis
an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France -
Hungary rebellion
A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Cuban missile crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment -
China’s Atomic Bomb
October 16, 1964, China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. -
Sandinistas rise in Nicaragua
The rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s. -
Coup in Chile
Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. -
End of Troops in Vietnam
U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists. -
SDI
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
War: El Salvador
A conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. #DominoTheory -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. -
The Fall of the USSR
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
