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Winston churchill delivers " Iron Curtain" speech
This speech was made by Winston Churchill, and was one of his most famous speeches after the war. it trigered the United States and Britain. many people considered Churchill's "iron curtain speech" the beginning of the cols war. -
Truman Doctrine established
Truman states that giving aid to Greece and Turkey will cause fear that communist forces in those countries will tajke over. giving aid to these countries would help prevent them from falling into the soviet rule and was a step of containment policy to stop soviet expansion. this is significant because if Greece and Turkey did not receive the help they needed they would be forced to become communist -
Marshall plan is announced
This and the ERP, also known as the European Recovery Program was mainly used to help out Erope. The United States decided to help Europe because the U.S. wanted to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. We helped Europe by helping to rebuild European economies after they have been alerted in WWII. -
Berlin Blockade begins
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. Germany was trying to controle many nations in WWII and the Soviets blocked off Berlins railway, road, and canal. they did this because they wanted to force western powers to rely on the Soviet Union for fuel and food, giving the soviets controle over Berlin. -
NATO ratified
the NATO also known as the Atlantic Alliance states that there is an agreenment in mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party like the Soviets. The goal of this organization was to keep the russians out and the americans in, and the germans down. -
Mao Zedong, a Communist takes controle of china
He was known as the head Republican of China, he governed the country as chairman of the communist party of china until his death. while chairman he managed to make china a single- party socialist state. this modernized China and built it into a world power. -
Senatory Joeseph McCarthy begins a communist witch hunt
he was an anti-communist and would send in illigual spies to spie on people he belived had communist ties and then would imprison them. he stated he had a list of 205 people in the state department who were for the communist party. after so many of his accusations he was removed from his seat in the senate. -
Korean War begins
war between the Sounh Korea (republicans) and the United Nations, agianst North Korea (democrats), this war was mainly because of the political controversy between the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the pasific war at the end of WWII. -
Rosenberg executions
This couple was found guilty of giving U.S. military information to the Soviets. The communist couple was accused for giving out techinal information on bombs and building misels. Even though this was a very bad crime the court still had some controversy on whether to give the death penalty or not. they where eventually sent to the electric chair. -
Warsaw pact formed
Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria all sighned the treaty creating a pact because they where ruled under the Soviets military command as a mutual defense system. this gave more military controle to the soviets. -
Soviet Invasion of Hungary
This revolt was one of the first major threats to the Soviet Union. this was a revolt against the government of the "people's republic of Hungary" and specifically the Soviet-imposed policies. even though this revolt failed to change anything it was inspiring and was instumental in the downfall of the Soviet Union later on. -
Sputnik launched into orbit
The sputnik was the first earth satelliet. Launched by the Soviet Union, it sparcked a space race, or militarism which was a large part of the Cold War. the launch caused many new political, military, technological, and scientific developments by countries to show that they could keep up with the soviets. -
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro led the Cuban revolt or also known as the Cuban Revolution. Eventually becoming the present communist party of Cuba in October 1965, Castro created a communist government. also in 1959 Fidel Castro controlled Cuba with his military. he was the only leader of a communist country in the Western Hemisphere. -
Soviet Union reveals that the U.S. spy plane was show down over Soviet territory
This incident was a great embarrassment to the United States. Even though the pilot survived, the Soviet Union had recovered the pictures taken on the spy plane. the pilot was forced to do manuel labor and was sent to three years in prison. this also opened rage that the soviets where better than the U.S. once again. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attempt at invading cuba. this invasion by the American funded agency, a group called Brigade, attempted to overthrow and try once again to revolutionize Cuba against the government of Fidel Castro. in the end Fidel Castro defeated brigade. -
Construction of Berlin Wall begins
This wass was a giant barrier built by the German Democratic Republic that cut off West Berlin from East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wass was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in buildning a socialist state in east Germany. the wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked the Germany and the communist Eastern Block during the post- WWII period. -
U.S. involvement in Vietnam increased
In 1961, South Vietnam signed a military and economic aid treaty with the United States leading to the arrical of U.S. support troops and the formation of the U.S. military assistance command. Mounting dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness and corruption of Diem's government culminated in a military coup engineered by Duong Van Minh ; diem was executed -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the Cuban Missle Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and cuba against the U.S. this was one of the major confrontations of the Cold Wasr, because it is the only time we came closest to turning to nuclear weapons. -
SALT I sighned
SALT stands for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. they were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the U.S. and the Soviet Union. SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two countries -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
It lasted nine years. part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led afgan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen. the insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China. Leonid Brezhnev led the soviets. -
President Ronald Reagan proposes Strategic Defense initiative
this was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. it was meant to use ground-based and space -based systems to protect the U.S. from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. the initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction. -
Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resolve to remove all intermediate nuclear missiles from Europe
President Ronald Reagan and soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the intermediate- range nuclear forces Treaty, or INF treaty. this landmark agreement proposed to eliminate all intermediate and short-range ground-based missiles and launchers from Europe. the INF is a 1987 agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet -
Berlin Wall falls
an announcement made by East German government official Günter Schabowski stated, Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the GDR (East Germany) into the FRG (West Germany) or West Berlin. people where shocked that they could cross and then people now took piks and chipped the wall starting to tare it down. -
End of Soviet Union, Cold War ends
this period of time began with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union. the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. after a series of revolutions in soviet bloc states, the soviet union collapsed in 1991
