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Cold War Timeline
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The arms race (part 1)
America bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 1)
communists have most of the control in china, due to gaining liking from peasants -
The causes of the Cold War - The differences between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The main differences between the US and the USSR are:
The US was the richest country while the USSR was the biggest. The US is a democracy while the USSR was a dictatorship. The US has freedom of speech while the USSR had censorship. The US has capitalism while the USSR had communism. The US was lead by Truman and the USSR was lead by Stalin. The US had the atomic bomb and the USSR had the biggest army. The US feared the spread of communism and the USSR was angry at the US for invading Russia. T -
Iron Curtain
The soviet union had communist control over Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia, these countries lay on the west side of the soviet union's border, and created a buffer between the soviet union and the rest of Europe. -
Relations continued to worsen between the US and soviets
Containment was a policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism
Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism (Turkey and Greece received aid)
Marshall Plan -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
France, Britian and the United States withdrew their occupations in Berlin, while the Soviet Union kept controll of the other portion known as west Berlin. The Soviet union put up a blockade to cut of resources to west Berlin. So, the Americans and British flew supplies in for nearly 11 months, until the Soviet Union took the blockade down. -
NATO
a military alliance between nations of western Europe and North America -
The Arms Race (part 2)
The Soviet Union explodes a nuclear weapon in response to the American bombing. -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 2)
China’s major cities become under Communist control -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 3)
Mao Zedong gained control of all of China -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 2)
Cuba was ruled by an unpopular dictator, Fulgencio Batista -
The Arms Race (part 3)
Thermonuclear weapon was approved by Truman, in an effort to develope more deadly weapons than the Soviet Union -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 4)
Soviet union and China sign a friendship treaty, as two communist nations -
Koran War (Part 1)
North Korea made a surprise attack on South Korea. North Korea was succeeding at taking over the South, they had brought communism and hitler based ideas down with them. Truman helped the South -
Korean War (Part 2)
North Korea had control of most of the entire peninsula
When the war ended they were divided countries
North Korea was under rule of communism
South Korea prospered with the help of the US -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 5)
China takes control of Tibet -
The Arms Race (part 4)
The united states tests the first H bomb -
The Arms Race (part 5)
The Soviet Union tests their H bomb -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 1)
Indonesia hosted Bandung Conference -
Warsaw Pact
a military alliance in response to NATO formed by Soviet Union, East Germany,Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. -
The Arms Race (part 6)
Soviet Unit sends first ICBM into space, leaving America in the dust in terms of space travel. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 3)
Cuba overthrew Batista in January -
Cuban Missle Crisis (Part 4)
CIA invaded Cuba after training anti-Casto cuban exiles. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 5)
Khrushchev secretly began to build 42 missile sites in Cuba -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 6)
Children of china are urged to revolt by Mao Zedong and become red guards. -
Mao Zedong and Communist Control of China (Part 7)
The cultural revolution stops, and red guards are disbanded. -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 6)
Communist Sandinista rebels toppled Somoza’s son, and young Islamic revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran -
Cuban Missile Crisis (Part 7)
UN negotiated a ceasefire . -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Part 1)
Hungary allows East Germans to cross their border into Austria so that they can get to West Germany. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Part 2)
East Germany closes down borders, and there are many protests that demand right to travel freely. On the 18th, Honecker resigns after losing authority. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (Part 3)
Egon Krenz opened the Berlin wall. His attempt to sustain a communist regime failed, and so the East German Communist Party ended. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 1)
Lithuania declared itself independent -
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 2)
Soviet Union did not want other nations to rebel, so troops attacked unarmed civilians in Lithuania wounding hundred and killing 14. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 3)
Gorbachev’s becomes less popular because of the assault on Lithuania, and so Boris Yeltsin is voted in as the Russian Federations first directly elected president. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 4)
Gorbachev’s is captured and demanded to resign as soviet union president. Yeltsin also makes a speech that appeals to the people of Russia. Military troops refuse to attack Yeltsin’s parliament building so the military retreats from Moscow, and Gorbachev returns. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union (Part 5)
Gorbachev resigns as president of Soviet Union at which point it had been disbanded.
