Cold War

By Abraham.Salazar
  • Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing

    Hiroshima & Nagasaki Bombing

    The U.S detonated two nuclear weapons over both of these japanese cities. Killing 129,000 and 226,000 in both cities causing conflict.
  • Red Scare

    Red Scare

    Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Positioned the United States as the defender of a free world in the face of Soviet aggression
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Vietnam was a battleground in the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union grappled for world domination.
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

    Threatened regional stability and challenged the U.S. relationship with two primary Cold War allies, Britain and France.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    Separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The closest we ever came to a nuclear war
  • Perestroika/Glastnost

    Perestroika/Glastnost

    2 soviet policies made by Gorbachev that attempted to make them more like the west. His own people resisted.
  • Tiananmen square massacre

    Tiananmen square massacre

    Inspired protesters in the USSR, which then led them to the collapse of the soviet union.
  • Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Collapse of the Soviet Union

    Eastern Europe began to transition from communism to democracy