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Russian Communist Revolution
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd and established the Russian SFSR. This Connects to the Cold War because it is the govt. that was in control throughout the war, ending in 1991 -
Treaty of Versailles
This was the treaty that ended WW1. This effected the war because it put Germany in debt through all the war reparations. An it led to the rise of totalitarian dictators such as Stalin -
League of Nations
An Association of countries established in 1920 by the treaty of Versailles to promote international cooperation and achieve international peace an security. This related to the cold war because its purpose was to restore peace around the globe following the separation. -
Yalta Conference
Was a meeting of British Prime minister, Stalin, and Roosevelt early in febuary 1945. Most the agreements were kept secret, th revelation of the conference particulars became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degraded into the cold war. -
Chinese communist revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution or The Second Chinese Civil War started from 1945, after the end of Second Sino-Japanese War, and it is the second part of the Chinese Civil War. It was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power since its founding in 1921. This connects to the Cold War because it would put China on the side of Russia, with the failure of the U.S trying to stop the revolution. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. This connects to the Cold War because it was an attempt to try and stop communism and its leaders -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation and to create and maintain international order. This connects to the Cold War because it shows how little they could do to stop the war between the Soviets and America, and why the war lasted so long -
General Assembly
As the world started to recover from WW2 the first General Assembly of the United nations meeting was held in London, and created the United nations Atomic energy Commission. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. This connects to the Cold War because it is showing how Europe was divided into the communist side, and a side of more democratic purposes. In other words, the differing ideologies of the Cold War. -
Baruch Plan
The United States presented the Baruch Plan for international control of atomic weapons in the United United nations. The Russians did not agree with this which resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
1947, President Harry S. Truman established that the US would provide Political/military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from a communist force. This related to the Cold War because the USA was showing that they were willing to help the democratic side rather the communist side. -
Marshall Plan
This was an American intuitive to aid western Euope in which the USA gave over 13 billion dollars in economic support to help rebuild western Europe after the end of WW2. This was a product of the war because the USA was helping to aid the democratic side. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the allied response to the soviet blockade of Berlin. supplies were dropped into the city by airship from allied forces. This relates to the Cold War because the battle between the two sides -
NATO created
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. This connects to the Cold War because it shows the allies in the war if it ever became a hot war. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
The Joseph McCarthy Speech was given on Lincoln Day, and claimed that there were 205 communist spies working in the State Department. This connects to the Cold War because it was a direct threat from the Soviets trying to understand how the U.S worked and how they could fight against them. -
Nuclear Deterrent
The U.S. and the Soviets had built a stock pile of nuclear weapons. The Soviets wanted a nuclear war, but the U.S. adopted Nuclear deterrence to avoid war. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.S and the United Nations came to the aid of South Korea. This related to the Cold War because of the battle between Democracy and Communism. -
US sent troops
The US decided to send troops to aid South Korea. this related to the cold war because the USA was aiding the non communist party of that war. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Europeans countries. This related to the cold war becaue all of the those countries were communist countries. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It connects to the Cold War because it began the race to see who could become more powerful in space and who was more technologically advanced than the other. -
MAD
A military strategy and national security system where two or more opposing sides using nuclear weapons would cause complete annihilation of the attacker and defender. This related to the cold War because every side of the War was fearing the other sides nuclear weapons. -
The Bay of Pigs
This was a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961. The invaders, numbering about fourteen hundred had left after the Cuban Revolution and returned to overthrow the new Cuban leader, Fidel Castro; they were trained and equipped by the United States CIA. The operation was a disaster for the invaders, most of whom were killed or taken prisoner. This related to the cold war because Kennedy wanted to show China, Russia how determined he was to win the Cold War. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
In December 1961, Castro declared, “I am a Marxist-Leninist and shall be one until the end of my life.” This connects to the Cold War because it shows that Cuba is now communist and they are supported by Russia, which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
The East Berlins communist party put up a wall to separate themselves from the West side. This was a product of the Cold War becaue It was a separation between communism and democracy -
Berlin Wall (any fact in between construction and fall)
Official figures show that at least 136 people died trying to cross the wall. Guards were instructed to shoot but not kill anyone. And anyone that attempted to cross were considered traitors. This was an outcome of the cold War because East Germay or better known as the communst side did not want anyone to cross over to the West side or better known as the democratic side. (The date listed is the death of Günter Litfin. He died trying to cross the wall.) -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Non- Proliferaton Agreement
An agreement signed by the United Kingdom, The United States, The Soviet Union, and 59 other countries, It states that nuclear weapons should not be possessed. The reasoning for this was to get rid of the dangerous nuclear affects of nuclear war. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" E. Aldrin, Jr., the first two humans on the Moon. This connects to the Cold War because it ended the space race and asserted U.S dominance in space -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. It connects to the Cold War because both Russia and America supported a side of the war. It showed how much each side wanted their ideology to be dominant -
SALT(1)
President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union began to construct a limited anti- ballistic missile defense system around Moscow. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. This connects to the Cold War because it marked a defeat for democracy, and put Communism dominant for a while. -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, was a British stateswoman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. This connects to the Cold War because she was a leader of more democratic ideas, which would put them on the side on America and not the Soviets -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. This connects to the Cold War because he was a communist leader during the war of ideologies in the war, and was supported by the Soviets. -
Pope John Paul 2
Pope Saint John Paul II, was Pope from 1978 to 2005. He is called by some Catholics Saint John Paul the Great. This connects to the Cold War because John Paul II is recognised as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known as the mujahideen fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. Between 562,000–2 million civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees. This connects to the Cold War because the U.S provided aid as the Soviets invaded -
SALT(2)
President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT 2 stating that established equality between the U.S. and Soviets in nuclear weapon delivery systems, but this led to an invasion from the Soviets to Afghanistan. -
Fall of the Berlin War
Nov 09, 1989 marks the day that the Berlin Wall came down. This was significant to Germany and the Cold War because it showed that the war between Communism and democracy had ended in Germany and soon throughout the word. -
Lech Walsea
He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. He connects to the Cold War because he is part of the reason Communism died in Poland, and also further pushing back the Soviets -
START(1)
This was created to make arrangements regarding the inheritance of nuclear weapons contributing to a three year delay between the signing of the treaty and entry force to stop nuclear war. -
START 2
A treaty between US and Russia about the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. This was ratified by the US senate. This relates to the cold war because the US and Russia were willing to compromise
