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Joseph Stalin
the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. He held this nominal post until abolishing it in 1952, concurrently serving -
Harry S. Truman
Decision to use atomic weapons against Japan led to a speedy end of the war but remains controversial. His presidency was a turning point in foreign affairs. man assisted in the founding of the United Nations, issued the Truman Doctrine to contain communism, and passed the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. oversaw the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and the creation of NATO in 1949. -
United Nations
is the world's largest, foremost, and most prominent international organization. The stated aims of the United Nations include promoting and facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms, democracy, and the achievement of lasting world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations. -
Containment
It stopped the spread of communism, (mostly Totalitarian Dictatorship). As a result the policies desighned to ensure the containment of communism dramatically affected U.S. diplomacy of the rights of American citizens ,E.S. economy. 1962, we nearly destroyed the world in the "Bay of Pigs". -
Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism)
Served as a Republican Senator for the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. -
Truman Doctrine
Policy that asked for $400 million to aid Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey
Goal to “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjection by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
Stabilized Greek government and eased Soviet demands in Turkey
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Marshall Plan
was the American program to aid Europe, in which the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948.The goals of the United States were to rebuild a war-devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
Berlin Airlift
The response to Soviet troops cutting off all ground movement to West Berlin. Truman ordered the Berlin Airlift to begin. The goal was to help West Berlin sustain itself without provoking war with the Soviets. For 11 months, cargo planes brought over 2 million tons of supplies, providing Berliners with food, medicine, and coal. Stalin lifted the blockade on May 12, 1949. -
N.A.T.O.
The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. An additional 22 countries participate in NATO's "Partnership for Peace", with 15 other countries involved in institutionalized dialogue programs. -
Mao Zedong
Zedong was a Communist leader in China who struggled against the Nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-Shek since the 1920's. They stopped their civil war during World War ll to work together to prevent Japanese occupation but resumed it again after. To prevent a Communist revolution in China the U.S. gave $2,000,000 in aid but they squandered it and Communism rose and in 1949 Zedong formed the People's Republic of China. -
Korean War
After WWII Korea was divided by the occupation of to groups in the north occupied by Russia, and the south occupied by the U.S.. On June 25, 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. North Korea was supported by USSR and Communist China, while South Korea was supported U.N spearheaded the U.S. Ended with an armistice and no peace treaty causing border tensions to this very day
MiG Alley: a infamous borderline between North Korea and China where many dogfights were fought. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe; he had responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. -
Nikita Krrushchev
This is significant because Nikita was just like Joseph Stalin but he handled all business in the Ukraine, Stalin was in charge of Krushchev and Stalin called upon him to be Stalin's close adviser. As Stalin's adviser Krushchev approved many arrests and murders during the Great purge. After some years Krushchev returned to power, and played a big roll in the Cuban Missile crisis. Krushchev was born arpil 15 1894 and he was a very big pat of Russian history, be was a big part in The Great purge. -
Warsaw Pact
This pact happened in the years of 1955-99. Mutual defense treaty. Warsaw Pact was significant because it provided stability between both conflicting forces and was a form of non-nuclear confrontation between the allied soviets and the US. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 by the US, Canada, and nine European nations, the first peacetime military alliance in US history. This pact happened in the years of 1955-1991. It was a mutual defense treaty. -
Vietnam War
n the beginning of the vietnam war started with Ho Chi Minh invading South Vietnam to unite it under communist rule the war lasted into the 70's when the U.S. got involved hoping to assist and turn Vietnam into a democratic country. The U.S involvement ended in 1973. Between the various political pressure and opposition the U.S withdrew. The Tet Offensive was one such action planned by Hoang Van Thai with a attack on various cities and bases by the Viet Cong. -
John F. Kennedy
was the 35th president of the United States. Elected in 1960 at the age of 43, he became the youngest person ever to be voted into the White House. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. In the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy positioned himself to the right of the Republican Eisenhower Administration by promising to close the "missile gap," the supposed Soviet superiority in long-range nuclear missiles. -
Berlin Wall
Nikita Krushchev wanted a way to stop Germans from going nto West Berlin from Communist Germany. He built a wall throughout Berlin to keep the soviet sector out and anyone who tried to flee from the East was shot at. It stood as a symbol of the division between the East and the West for almost thirty years after. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
After the Bay of Pigs crisis in Cuba, the soviets made the decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to stop more attempts from the U.S. to overthrow them. In October spy planes found and took photos of the long range missiles being built. Immediately, President Kennedy declared they would put a quarantine n the delivery of weapons to Cuba, Krushchev and Kennedy came to the agreement that the Soviets would take their weapons out of Cuba and the U.S. would not invade. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
The 36th President of the United States,. He is one of only four people who served in all four elected federal offices of the United States. idency following the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, completed Kennedy's term and was elected President in his own right, winning by a large margin over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election. Johnson was greatly supported by the Democratic Party and as President, he was responsible for designing the "Great Society". -
Ronald Reagan
was the 40th President of the United States. Domestically, the administration favored reducing government programs and introduced the largest across-the-board tax cuts in American history. The economic policies enacted in 1981, known as "Reaganomics", were an example of supply-side economics. Reagan aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and limit the growth of social spending, as well as the reduction of regulation and inflation. Economic growth saw a strong recovery in the 1980s. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev became the General Secretary of the Soviet Union and instated a series of changes. Beginning with glasnost (freedom of speech) and perestroika (restructuring of the economy), Later, Gorbachev ended the arms race with America as he realized it was an unwinnable dispute, and a drain on government funds. -
Iran-contra affair
During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the sale of Arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. With the money they fund and support the Nicaraguan Contras. The result was that they said that Reagan didn´t know about it, so he didn´t lie, but he was critizate that he didn´t looked and controlled his employees -
George H.W. Bush
Bush was a determined president who brought the US to be a kinder and gentler nation. He won the Republican nomination in 1988, and became president. He was elected at he closing of the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Soviet Union. He sent troops to Panama to overthrow the corrupt government. During his time, Saddam Hussein became the greatest threat and test. Also, there was a faltering US economy and rising violence in the inner cities. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Soviet power in East Germany and Berlin lessened, the East German government announced on November 9th that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Fall of Berlin wall paved the way for German reunification which was concluded on October 30th, 1990. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Eastern Europe began abandoning Communism
August 1991- Coup Established that overthrew government
Coup collapsed, so Gorbachev came back, and all of the Soviet Republics declared their independence from the Soviet Union
December 1991- Gorbachev announced the end of the Soviet Union, where most joined a federation called the “Commonwealth of the Independent States”
