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Russian Communist Revolution
The events began in Poland in 1989, and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.The Soviet Union was dissolved by the end of 1991. -
Treaty Of Versailles
Most important treaty that helped close WWl for good. This ended Germany’s war on allied powers. It signed exactly 5 years after Archduke Ferdinand was assasinated. -
MAD
neither side would attack the other if both sides are guaranteed to be totally destroyed by the other side in the conflict. Both sides would destroy the other side completely and threatened to do so if they got attacked. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the second war time meeting of Winston Churchhill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin Roosevelt. The three leaders agreed to demand Germany's unconditional surrender -
United nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following WWII maintains international order -
Nuremburg Trials
Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremburg Trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremburg, Germany -
General Assembly
They created the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, it eliminated all weapons of mass destruction, including the atomic bomb. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Stalin did not intend to keep his word about the support of establishment of governments in Eastern Europe, so Winston Churchill warned of the spread of communism through this speech. -
Baruch Plan
The international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations. The failure of the plan to gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
League of Nations
Preserve world peace between the US and the Soviet Union and their allies.
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Truman Doctrine
The principle that US should give support to countries threatened by Soviet Forces or communist insurrection. This was originally for Greece and Turkey whom needed help. This was seen as communist nations as an open declaration of the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
this was by General George C. Marshall, sent 13 billion dollars to europe in order to aid rebuilding post-ww. Although, europeans HAD to buy US goods with the money they were given. Around 18 countries received benefits from the US -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked all roads, railways, and cut off all electricity power to West Berlin. Stalin wanted to force all allies to leave Berlin, so for 324 days the United States flew cargo planes in and out of West Berlin dropping in supplies they needed to survive. -
NATO creation
Nato was founded in 1949, as an alliance of western nations. Then in 1955 they found a rival, created with the warsaw pact during the cold war. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
A difficult period in Chinese history because the Cultural Revolution was started by Chinese leader Mao Zedong to renew the revolution in China.
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Joseph McCarthey Speech
During the weeks before McCarthy delivered his giant speech, China had fallen to the Communists and the Soviet Union had tested an atomic bomb. -
Korean War
“America’s forgotten war”, which is thought of as a part to a larger war on communism to extinguish it. North Korean troops invaded South Korea (american ally) -
Nuclear Deterrent
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Soviet policy rested on the conviction that a nuclear war could be fought and won. -
Warsaw Pact
“Union of peace and socialism”, Included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union. This was a communist reaction to NATO. Both led to the expansion of military within world powers. -
Sputnik launched
Under Khrushchev, the soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Four years later we, the U.S. put the first human into space. This was part of the spce race, a big part of the Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
John F. Kennedy planned to overthrow Castro and invade cuba because he feared how close communist Cuba was to the United States. The U.S.A's invasion failed and it made Kennedy and the United States look weak. -
Fidel Castron proclaims Cummunist Cuba
Turned communist which connects to the USSR and gives them the advantage as cuba is so close to florida and will be an advantage to bomb the USA -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
Communist east germany (Warsaw) began to build a wall to stop people from fleeing to the democratic west germany (NATO). It was practically thrown up overnight. -
Berlin Wall(any fact in between)
The fall of the berlin wall happened by mistake, it was also brought about 15 years into the cold war. Also more than 100 people died trying to cross it. More than 5,000 escaped. Official demolition occurred in 1990. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
USA sends troops to Vietnam
however the president decides against actual combat troops, he sent in military advisors and personnel, thus leading to the U.S to be involved. They were first sent to lead South Koreans into war. This fight in Vietnam was to extinguish communism spreading. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement signed in 1968 by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. -
Appalo 11
The Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. formed the backdrop of the Apollo program -
Kent State Shooting
students showing hatred against United States involvement in the Vietnam War were fired on by the National Guard. Four students were killed and nine wounded. 1970 -
SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks was intended to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons held by the east and west during the Cold War. -
Fall of Saigon
After many years of brutal fighting in Vietnam and the continued lack of public support in the U.S. along with a multitude of other domestic issues -
Deng Xiaoping
He was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. Deng Xiaoping's reascendance to the top leadership at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party -
Pope John Paul II
The pope led a campaign for freedom. During his rule he helped people over come communism and served as a witness to hope. -
SALT II
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II was reestablished to solve left over issues from SALT I. -
Margaret Thatcher
British prime minister, who put a stop to the cold war as she talked sense into the communist leaders who can't change their ways of the nuclear race -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immetiatly assumed that they would gain military and political contol of Afghanistan. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
At midnight on November 9, 1989 East Germanys ruler gave permission to boarder gaurds to let the gates along the wall down in result of mass protesting. -
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa was a Polish politicianHe served as president of Poland from 1990-1995. He was persecuted by the communist authorities and arrested. -
START I
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
START II
Was a series of talks between the USA and the Soviet negotiators which cut back the manufacturing of strategic nuclear weapons during the cold war
