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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 -
United Nations
Created at the end of world war II for the main purpose of creating peace. Was to maintain peace and to help facilitate relationships with other countries. In 1944, delegates from 39 countries met at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington D.C. to discuss the New Organization, the United Nations. Delegates agreed that the UN would have a General Assembly,where every member nation in the world would have one vote. It would also have a security council with 11 members. -
Harry S truman
was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the U.S. successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War. -
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a major revolutionary who came into power in 1945 and was responsible for China’s change to communism. Mao Zedong turned China into a socialist/ communist country by founding the People’s Republic of China. -
Containment
Containment was the United State’s policy of containing communism. It was a policy that meant that the U.S. would use any means necessary to contain the spread of communism. It started in 1946 and the result was wars and tensions between Soviet supported countries and U.S. supported countries. It was significant because it was the United State’s effort to contain communism and enveloped many different events after World War 2. -
Joseph McCarthey
Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. republican senator, in power from 1946-1954, who was notorious for making unbacked claims of communism in the U.S. Government. He represented the growing persecution and paranoia of communism in the United States. He was censured by the senate in 1954. -
truman dcotrine
President Truman created a new policy saying that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid. Most people believe that this was the main cause of the cold war. This policy won the support of Republicans who controlled Congress, sending $400 million, but no military support. In 1952, both Greece and Turkey Joined NATO, a military alliance. -
Marshall Plan
The 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. -
Berlin Airlift
This was in response to Soviet troops cutting off all road and rail traffic to West Berlin. The American commander in Germany, General Lucius Clay, warned that if Berlin fell, West Germany would too. In June of 1948, Truman the Berlin Airlift to begin. The goal was to keep West Berlin alive 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. -
NATO
(North American Treaty Organization) that included the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, The Netherlands, Norway, Luxembourg, and Iceland
Mutual defense alliance where members agreed to come to the aid of any member that was attacked
Caused Soviet leaders to form alliance
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Korean War
Soviet supported North Korea invaded American backed South Korea. The fighting went back and forth across 38th parallel before an armistice agreement was settled on in 1953. It showed the rising tensions between the USSR and the US and brought the Cold War to Asia. -
Dwight D eisenhower
Thought success would come from not just a powerful military, but also a strong economy
Declared a “new look” in defense policy needed- but not about loud army, nation could use nuclear weapons
After Soviets launched Sputnik (first artificial satellite to orbit Earth), NASA was created
Was going to hold a summit with Khrushchev until American spy plane was shot down
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Warsaw Pact
A mutual defense treaty between eight communist states in central and eastern europe, during the cold war. Under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May, 1955 in Warsaw. The USSR established the Warsaw Pact in response to the integration o the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO on October 1954. -
Vietnam war
The Vietnam War marked the turning point of modern conventional warfare. It increased the reliance of helicopters. The war greatly affected the civilian populace of Vietnam. America fought to refrain the Soviet Union and China from spreading communism. The war occurred from November 1955 to April 1975. It resulted in a North Vietnamese victory. America withdrew their forces from Indochina, the communist governments took power in the South, and North Vietnam annexed South Vietnam. -
Nikita krushchev
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, -
John F. Kennedy
35th. President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his death in 1963. President Kennedy's foreign policy was dominated by American confrontations with the Soviet Union, manifested by proxy contests in the early stage of the Cold War. In 1961, Kennedy anxiously anticipated a summit with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. One of his first presidential acts, Kennedy asked Congress to create the Peace Corps. -
Berlin wall
In June of 1961, Khrushchev met with Kennedy and said that he wanted to stop the flood of Germans pouring out of Communist East Germany into West Berlin. He did this by Building a wall through Berlin, sealing off the Soviet Sector. Guards were posted along the wall and shot anyone trying to escape from the East. -
Cuban Missile crisis
The closest the world has ever been to a nuclear war. Summer of 162, USA's intelligence learned that the Soviets had equipment in Cuba. On OCtober 22, Kennedy announced on TV that US spy planes have photos of the Soviet's long-ranged missiles in Cuba. The missiles where very close to America, and it came off as a threat. JFK immediately ordered a naval blockade to stop Soviets from delivering more missiles. Also JFK demanded that they dismantle the existing missile sites. Soviet Union offered a -
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was the thirty-sixth president from 1963 to 1969. He was significant because he carried on the American struggle to restrain communism. He was sworn into presidency after John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He urged people “to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man’s life matches the marvels of man’s labor.” He also made a new civil rights bill and a new tax cut. He contributed to many service that the country provided such as education, medicare, and more. There -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan- was the 40th president and was president when the cold war ended. By the early 1980s, many people in the US perceived that the USSR military capabilities were gaining on that of the United States. Previously, the U.S. had relied on the qualitative superiority of its weapons to essentially frighten the Soviets, but the gap had been narrowed. Reagan believed that if he could persuade the Soviets to allow for more democracy and free speech, this would lead to reform and the end of Co -
Iran Contra Scandal
- 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
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george HW 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. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
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. -
Fall of the berlin wall
Fall of Berlin Wall
9th Nov, 1989
By 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union(Reagan is now in office). He believed that the Soviet Union had to reform its economic system or it would soon collapse. Gorbachev wanted to make peace and Reagan challenged him by demanding that the Berlin Wall be taken down. The Soviet economy in the late 1980s was really suffering, and to save it Gorbachev makes some changes to Soviet principles with hope of a positive outcome. In 1989, these new -
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”
