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Red Scale
The Red Scare occurred in the beginning of World War I. General Alexander Mitchell Palmer ordered the Palmer raids, a series of violent law-enforcement raids targeting leftist radicals and anarchists. McCarthy used hearsay and intimidation to establish himself as a powerful and he leveled charges of disloyalty at celebrities, intellectuals and anyone who disagreed with his political views, costing many of his victims their reputations and jobs. It ended in the 1950's -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that pledges American President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces and it ended on 1952. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe and it ended between December 1951. -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control And it ended on 1949. -
Space Race
1953 - 1957, the U.S.-Soviet Cold War had worked its way into the fabric of everyday life in both countries, fueled by the arms race and the growing threat of nuclear weapons and counter-espionage between the two countries. War in Korea and a clash of words and ideas carried out in the media. Those tensions would continue throughout the space race. Ended on july 17, 1975 -
U2 Incident
The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the downing of an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and led to the failure of a summit conference in Paris between the United States. . United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France. it enden on May 1 1960 but it was used as a excuse in the Soviet Union to not trust the USA all throw out the cold war. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government. The operation took place at the height of the Cold War, and its failure influenced relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union. It ended on April 20, 1961 -
Berlin Wall
In the 1980s, the wall extended 28 miles through Berlin and 75 miles around West Berlin, separating it from the rest of East Germany. The East Germans also erected an extensive barrier along most of the 850-mile border between East and West Germany. The wall got destroyed on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962, the Soviet Union began secretly installing missiles in Cuba to launch attacks against American cities. The ensuing standoff, known as the Cuban Missile Crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to remove the missiles. Ended on October 29, 1962 -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
The NPT is a treaty aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons through the three pillars of non-proliferation, disarmament, and peaceful use of nuclear energy.it never held accountable the 5 nations who possessed nuclear weapons at the time when the treaty was signed. ends on 11 May, 1995 -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the late 1980s widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform. ends in 1991