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Berlin Airlift
Truman, along with the French and British leaders, decided to converge their parts Berlin, which laid inside East Germany, and called it West Berlin, so after that the Soviets blocked trade ships from entering West Berlin, people didn't have supplies, so
Truman decided to deliver goods by plane in the Berlin Airlift
deliberately did not go into war, but instead decided on a more peaceful means of accomplishing what he wanted Picture -
HUAC
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War. Established in 1938, the committee wielded its subpoena power as a weapon and called citizens to testify in high-profile hearings before Congress. -
Joe McCarthy
After a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia he claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are “known communists.” The speech vaulted McCarthy to national prominence and sparked a nationwide hysteria about subversives in the American government. -
USSR Hydrogen Bomb
The Soviet Union tested its first fusion-based device on a tower in central Siberia. The bomb had a yield of 400 kilotons. Though not nearly as powerful as the American bomb tested nine months earlier, it had one key advantage: It was a usable weapon, small enough to be dropped from an airplane. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
By 1954, however, his power was beginning to wane. While he had been useful to the Republican Party during the years of the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Truman, his continued attacks on “communists in government” after Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower took over the White House in 1953 were becoming political liabilities. -
USSR shoots down U2 spy plane
The Soviets could spot the spy planes on their radar. For nearly four years, however, the U.S.S.R. was powerless to stop them. The U-2 aircraft were initially unreachable by both Soviet jets and missiles. However, by the spring of 1960, they developed a new Zenith surface-to-air missile with a longer range. On May 1, that weapon locked onto a U-2 flown by 30-year-old CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers. -
U.S severs diplomatic relation w/ Cuba
Relations between the United States and Cuba had been steadily declining since Castro seized power in early 1959. U.S. officials were soon convinced that Castro’s government was too anti-American to be trusted, and they feared that he might lead Cuba into the communist bloc. Early in 1960, following Castro’s decision to sign a trade treaty with the Soviet Union. In return, the United States began to implement cutbacks in trade with Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy, notified Americans about the presence of the missiles in Cuba 90 miles from U.S shores, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security -
Nuclear Test-Ban treaty
Representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. The treaty, which President John F. Kennedy signed less than three months before his assassination, was hailed as an important first step toward the control of nuclear weapons. -
Space race
December 1968 saw the launch of Apollo 8, the first manned space mission to orbit the moon, from NASA’s massive launch facility on Merritt Island, near Cape Canaveral, Florida. -
Space race #2
On July 16, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins set off on the Apollo 11 space mission, the first lunar landing attempt. After landing successfully on July 20, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon’s surface; he famously called the moment “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” -
End of the Soviet Union
An unsuccessful coup by Communist Party hard-liners in 1991 sealed the Soviet Union’s fate by diminishing Gorbachev’s power and propelling democratic forces, led by Boris Yeltsin, to the forefront of Russian politics. On December 25, Gorbachev resigned as leader of the USSR. The Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 31, 1991
