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Russian Communist Revolution
Political and Social changes that led to the forming of the Soviet Union. -
The Treaty of Versailles
One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinan -
Yalta conference
the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. -
United Nations
Provides a forum for its members to express their views in the General Assembly. -
Nuremberg Trials
Was a series of 13 trials.The defendants, were the Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity. -
General Assembly
A deliberative policy making part of the united nations. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Formed the imaginary boundary dividing eroupe into 2 separate areas from the end of World War 2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War. -
League of Nations
Idea that formed the United Nations. The United Nations replaced it. -
Baruch Plan
A proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) during its first meeting. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan
Plan to help rebuild western europe after World War 2 using $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
Supplied food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
NATO created
The Western Nations created a group called NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).The foreign ministers of 12 countries in North America and Western Europe gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
The name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'. -
Sputnik Launched
The first satellite launched by the Soviet Union into Earths Orbit beginning the race for space. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
Joseph McCarthy gave this speech warning of communism in America. He mentioneed specific people who he believed were communnist and working with the government. They lost their jobs, even though McCarthy was never able to give ant further evidene to prove their guilt. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph McCarthy gave this speech warning of communism in America. He mentioned specific people who he believed were communist and working with the government. They lost their jobs, even though McCarthy was never able to give any further evidence to prove their guilt. -
Nuclear Deterrent
The United States and the Soviet Union each built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. Soviet policy rested on the conviction that a nuclear war could be fought and won. The United States adopted nuclear deterrence, the credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
the younger Castro has edged Cuba away from a Soviet economic model of centralised control. -
Deng Xiaoping
a major supporter of Mao Zedong in the early 1950s. As the party's Secretary-General, Deng became instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
CIA trained Cuban rebels to overthrow castro. They did not succeed causing the USA to look weak. -
Berlin Wall
Stopped flood of refugees from East to West germany. Defused the crisis over Berlin. -
Buliding of the Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Cuban missile crisis
There were pictures taken in cuba that showed there were missiles being built by the soviet union. Tensions grew larger between The Soviets and U.S.A. -
United States sends troops to Vietnam
In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 2 and 4, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, per the authority given to him by Congress in the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Apollo 11
John F. Kennedy made a goal to fly the very first human to the moon and this was successful. -
Kent State Shootings
The Ohio National Guard shot unarmed college students. -
SALT
Two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Fall of Saigon
The South Vietnamese Army took over Saigon and announced that Saigon government is completly dissolved. -
Margaret Thatcher
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Pope John Paul II
He Hated communism and the Soviet Union. He hoped for peace to avoid nuclear war. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Cold War was ending when the spokesmen for E. Berlins communist party announced a change in his \citys relations with the West. -
Lech Walesa
Poland president, helped lead communist poland's first independent trade union, solidarity. -
START
A bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. -
MAD
A doctrine of military strategy. Mutual assured destruction.
