-
Buffer States of the USSR
Buffer state is a weak nation that is between two or more antagonistic unfriendly stronger powers. The USSR came out of the war with an aura because they fought Hitler’s Germany. The USSR spread rapidly through Central and Eastern Europe forming a protective buffer zone for the USSR. Buffer state between east and west. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States dropped a second bomb on Japan Nagasaki. As a result Japan finally surrendered. -
Molotov Plan
Molotov was a program to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Europe and Asia that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union -
Truman Doctrine
The truman Doctrine was a de facto declaration of the cold war. Truman’s address outlined the broad parameters of U.S Cold war Foreign policy. -
U.S aid to Greece
Greece was “threatened by the terrorist activities of several thousand armed men led by communists. It was incumbent upon the united states to support Greece so that it could “become a self supporting and self respecting democracy. “ The U.S government granted Greece $300 million in military and economic aid. -
U.S aid to Turkey
The “freedom-loving” people of Turkey also needed U.S. aid, which was “necessary for the maintenance of its national integrity.”
The U.S government granted Turkey $100 million in Military and economic aid to protect them from communists -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was designed to rebuild Western European Economies in the wake of WWII. The Marshall plan the European Recovery Program channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of europe between 1948 and 1951. The Plan promoted European economic integration and federalism and created a mixture of public organization of the private economy similar to that in the domestic economy of the US. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin the German capital city was located deep in the Soviet zone Berlin was closed by the Russians highways, railroads and canals were all occupied. Berlin Airlift was a military operation by the United States, Great Britain and other western European nations to take food, fuel and other vital provisions into West Berlin. Lasted more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. -
NATO established
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is established by 12 Western Nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada and Portugal . The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe. -
USSR gets atomic bomb
A bombing test. The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning” In order to measure the effects of the blast they had build buildings, bridges and other civilian structures, they also had placed animal in cages to see if it would affect them in anyway. As a result they had created a bomb as nearly deadly as the U.S atomic explosion. -
Communists win China
From 1911 to 1945 china experienced a revolution, a struggle against warlords, a civil war between the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek and the Communists led by Mao Zedong, and invasion by the Japanese. The Nationalists were backed by the United States and the Communists had support from the Soviet Union. By 1949 Chiang and he Nationalists despite having more soldiers than the communists, were defeated and forced to evacuate the Chinese mainland for the island of Taiwan -
Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean people’s Army poured across the 38th parallel the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. The U.S entered the war on South Korea;s behalf. It was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
Coup in Iran
Coup 53 of Iran is the CIA's Central Intelligence Agency first successful overthrow of a foreign government. officers orchestrating the Iran coup worked directly with royalist Iranian military officers, handpicked the prime minister's replacement, -
Coup in Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. The Warsaw Pact so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw Included soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
A war against North Vietnam and South Vietnam and its principal ally the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Suez Canal Crisis
Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal initiating the suez crisis. -
Sputnik
The soviet union inaugurates the “space age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. The satellite circled the earth every hour and 36 minutes. Sputnik transmitted radio signals back to Earth strong enough to be picked up by amateur radio operators. -
Cuban (Missile Crisis)
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff. October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. President John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force. -
China explodes atomic bomb
The People’s Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964. China is the fifth member of this exclusive club, joining the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. -
Coup in Chile
On Sept. 11, 1973, Salvador Allende's socialist government was toppled by a U.S.-backed military coup led by Augusto Pinochet, barely three years after being Allende was elected.Thousands of Chileans were subsequently tortured, jailed and killed by the military dictatorship -
End of troops in Vietnam
More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year -
Communist Angola
New Egim promised to stop “all military action in the African colonies, declaring its intention to grant them independence without delay. People’s Republic of Angola was a self declared socialist state (a communist state) by Agostinho Neto in 1975 right after gaining its independence from Portugal. (MPLA) the movement for the Liberation of Angola: Marxist organization, Led by Agostinho Neto, centered in the capital, Luanda. Supported by soviet Union and Cuba (communist) -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
In 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in Nicaragua. Following their seizure of power, the Sandinistas ruled the country first as part of a Junta of National Reconstruction. -
War in El Salvador
claiming the lives of approximately 75,000 Salvadorans.When the Junta made promises to improve living standards in the country but failed to do so, discontent with the government provoked the five main guerrilla groups country to unite in the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
An attempt to stabilize the turbulent political situation in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union sends 75,000 troops to enforce the installation of Babrak Karmal as the new leader of the nation. The new government and the imposing Soviet presence, however, had little success in putting down anti government rebels. -
Evil Empire Speech
President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an evil empire for the second time in his career. Some considered Reagan’s use of the Star Wars film inspired terminology to be brilliant democratic rhetoric. Some considered it as irresponsible bombast. -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
In a nationally televised address on national security president Ronald Reagan proposed the development of the technology to intercept enemy nuclear missiles. The plan was called the Strategic Defense Initiative or S.D.I critics called it “star wars”. -
Iran Contra Affair
the Iran-Contra Affairs of the 1980s stemmed from the Reagan Administration’s foreign policies toward two seemingly unrelated countries, Nicaragua and Iran. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
East Germany's government spokesman Guenter Schabowski mistakenly announced that East Germans could travel to the West. The press conference was being broadcast live, and watched in both East and West Germany, his words had enormous significance for the global political situation. -
Fall of the USSR
Lithuania proclaims its independence from the USSR, the first Soviet republic to do so. The Soviet government responded by imposing an oil embargo and economic blockade against the Baltic republic, and later sent troops.
