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start (I/II)
The start of WW1 was sparked by the assiantion of Archduke franz ferdinand. and lasted untill november 11, 1918
WW2 started on september 1, 1939- septmeber 2 1945. one of the main reasons for the start of WW2 was adolf hitler, he promised to end bad conditions for the poeple, but did not. he ended up taking over how he wanted to. In 1945 adolf hitler commited suicuide therefore ending WW2. -
Russian Communist Revolution
The Russians had lost their faith in their leader, Czar Nicholas II, and they were suffering from civil unrest and chronic food shortages. then the bolsheviks overthrew and Vladimer Lenin came to power. Vladimer Lenin was the "father of Communism" to the Soviets. -
Treaty of Versailles
this is the treaty that ended WWI. It had harshly punished Germany by making them take full blame and pay all dept wich led to the rise of Hitler -
League of nations
The league of nations failed miserably and was replaced with the United Nations . the reason it failed was because one of the most importat countries , Amercia, never joined. this was a good reason for the start of WWII happened so soon after the first which started the American Soviet rivalry. -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was britains first female prime minister. She was prime minister of the united kingdom from 1979-1990. and she was the leader of the conservative party from 1975-1990. -
general assembly
met in london on janruary 1941 and created the unites states atomic energy commission. part of the charge was to eliminiate all weapons of msas destruction including the atomic bomb. -
Yalta Confernce
This was a meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt to decide what Europe would look like after the war. They agree to divide Berlin into four zones led by the Americans, Soviets, French and Britain. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Castro claimed himself a "Marxist" along with Cuba which explains why Cuba agred to let the Soviets plant missiles there pointed at the U.S. -
United Nations
During the time of the Cold War the united nations wasn't successful because it was just a battle between superpowers. the only purpose for the League of Nations during this time was to hold public forums between countries. this usually led to an argument between America and the USSR. -
Nuremburg Trials
These trials took place during and after WWII with more than 200 Nazi defendants accused of torture, starvation, sadistic "medical experiments" etc.. to many Europeans. Most defendants were found guilty. -
Iron Curtain Speech
this speech said by Winston Churchill was a warning of the spred of communism. he used th metaphor for countries under Soviet rule as being "behind the iron curtain". -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was about international control of atomic weapons in the united states. failture resulted in an arms race between the us, and soviet union during the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
The Tuman Doctrine was a plan designed to keep the lid on communism and prevent it from taking over Europe. they didint want it to spread because it would be like the red scare all over again. -
Marshall Plan
The marshall plan was a plan to help Europe get over their economic depression. The U.S gave moneyto Europe to buy goods from America and help them get back on their feet. Only West Eurpoean coun tries excepted the marshall plan. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviets blocked all railroads, railways, cut off electrical power to West Berlin. the Allies performed a masive airlift of supplies like food, clothing, medicine, fuel, ect... -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO was made up of 9 European countries plus Iceland, Canada, and the U.S. These nationsset up a military force and agreed to defend each other if attacked. -
chinese communist revolution
The chinese communist revolution or the 1949 revolution was the culmination of the chinese communist partys drive to power since its founding in 1921 and the part of the chinese civil war (1946-1949). chinese nationlist party, and communist party of china joined in a united front against japan. in the offical media this period is known as the war of liberation. -
Joseph mCarthy speech
joseph mCarthy gave his speech about warning communist in america.This created alot of fear because he said that there were communist spies within America. this created alsomt like a second red scare. -
korean war
the korean war begins when 75,000 soliders from koreas peoples army poured across the 38th paralle, the boundary between the soviet-backed democratic peoples republic of korea to the north, and the pro-western republic of korea to the south -
Warsaw Pact
This was a military alliance established by the soviets. It included all the communist countries of eastern Europe under Soviet control. These countries were also known as being 'being behind the iron cutrain". -
sputnik launched
the launch of the unmanned satelite spitnik by the soviet union shocked and frightened many americans. the americans had feared that the soviets had gained the upper hand in the arms race. -
bay of pig invasion
the bay of pig invasion began in april the 17th of 1961. CIA-financed and trained a group of cuban refugess to topple the communist goverment of fidel castro. this attack was an utter failture. -
building of the berlin wall
contruction of the berlin wall begins. they build this wall to divide east and west berlin. the berlin wall itself came to sybolize the cold war. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was both the physical boundary between east and west Berlin but also the symbolic division between Europe. the west wanted democracy and the east wanted communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev spread the coldwar to the Carribean by installing missiles in Cuba,only 90 miles south of the U.S. This was a very stressful time for the US and especially for President Kennedy. it was hard to decide what to do because we did not want to attack because thst would casue another war. jfk demanded the missiles to be removed and they were. -
U.S Sends Troops to Vietnam
As a response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident Lyndon B. Johnson decide to send troops to Vietnam to try to stop the spread of communism to South Vietnam. -
apollo 11
the spacecraft was launched from cape kennedy, it was the first manned mission to land on the moon. the spacecrafts mission was to preform a manned lunar landing and safley return to earth. -
Salt (I/II)
Nixon and soviet general secratary leoind brezhnev signed the ABM treaty, and the interim SALT agreement in moscrow. This was to limit the number of missiles, and allowed each side to contruct protection for their capital, and to protect their ICBM field.
Salt II- began in late 1972, Brezhnev and Carter signed the second treaty. The second treaty was an agreement on the issues that were left over from the successful SALT-I treaty of 1969.some of the agreeements included: 2400 limit on nucler -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent state shooting was a protest against the Vietnam war on the campus of Kent state. police openly fired. This causd an uproar in campuses across the nation. The people wanted their troops home and were done trying to fight communism. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was the communist leader of china from 1970-1997, he was the most powerful figure in china, he abandoned many orthodox communist and doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of free-enterprise system into the chinease economy. -
Fall of Saigon
Saigon is the capital of South Vietnam.the event of its falling marked us losing the Vietnam war and the reunification of the nation in a communist state. -
Pope John Paul II
november 1st he is ordered preiest and goes to study in rome. he is later elected 264th pope and bishop of rome. Pope John Paul II was also the first non-itialin pope in more than 400 years his papacy ended april 2, 2005 -
Soviets invade Afganistan
The Soviets invaded Afganistan durig the Cold War to create a stable communist government. they wanted this because they wanted acces to the Indian Ocean to easily trade with India. also they wanted Afganistan's raw materials. -
MAD
MAD- is mutual assured destruction. a doctrine of millitary strategey and national security policy which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides. later after MAD americans began to relook at this defense system and thought it was time to rethink and find a new stratagey. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin wall sympolized the weakening of communism in Europe. the berlin a=wall gets chippedaway to nothing ad east and west Germany reunify. -
Lech Walesa
in 1984 lech was awarded the peace noble prize. on december 9, of 1990 he was elected president of the republic of poland in general elections and acceded to the highest office on december 23. his presidental term was from dec 22 ,1990- dec 22, 1995. -
Nuclear Deterrent
It was a crediable threat of retalliation to forestall enemy attack. 1. long-ranged manned aircraft carrying nuclear bombs. 2. landed-based inter continental ballistic missiles with nuclear war heads, and 3. nuclear powered submarines.
