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Gouzenko Affair
A Russian clerk named Igor Gouzenko escaped the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His actions helped to ignite the Cold War. -
United Nations
A organization that promotes nternational peace and security. -
The Berlin Blockade
The first major international crises of the Cold War. Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under the control of Allies. -
NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Lester B. Pearson
Helped NATO's over-focus on large troop concentrations in Western Europe to instead supporting foreign intervention, peacekeeping, diplomacy and support to Non-aligned Nations. -
The Korean War
The soviet union attacked Korea, the USA feared they would get more land so they split Korea into two. One side was Democratic and the other is communist. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He served as army chief of staff, the president of Columbia University and finally head of NATO before seeking the Republican presidential nomination. -
Vietnam war
A war between the communist armies of North Vietnam with the Chinese by there side and the armies of South Vietnam with United States on there side. It ended in 1975. -
Warsaw Pact
The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, or the Warsaw Pact. It consisted of
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
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Suez Crisis
A diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other.The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced Britain, France and Israel to withdraw. It ended on 7 November 1956. -
Fidel Castro
overthrew a dictator and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba. He also ordered Cuba to process oil from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Becouse Cuba and The soviet Union has reached a trade agreement. -
NORAD
A Canadian/USA airforce that detects Aerial and land threats. -
Sputnik Satellite
That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. This meant Satellite could be used for spying on other countries. -
Munsinger Affair
A political sex scandal, Gerda Munsinger, an alleged East German prostitute and Soviet spy living in Ottawa who had slept with many of the goverments men. -
U2 Plane
A summit in 1960 was canceled when the Soviets, shot down an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and captured its pilot. The plane was said to be spying on them. -
Berlin Wall
A wall contructed by the germans to seperate the West Berlin from east Berlin. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
A 13-Day confrontation between Cuba and Soviet Union vs the USA. This is considered the closest event that almost cuased a nuclear war. Russia aided Cuba on one condition that cuba let russia use them as a military base. So they did, then russia aimed nuclear missles at 3/4 of the USA. It ended on the 28th of october that year. -
Nikita Khrushchev
He purposed placing nuclear missiles in Cuba to restore the balance of power during the Cold War. He was also the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964. -
John F Kennedy
He helped diffuse the cuban missle crisis, So there was never a nuclear crisis. -
Leonid Brezhnev
His goverment were in compition with the United States to build up huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons. He signed the SALT I agreement in 1972 to reduce nuclear arms he also met with US President Richard Nixon in 1973. -
Soviet War in Afghanistan
A war in Afghanistan that lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against groups called the Mujahideen. The soviet war ended on February 15, 1989 -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Him and Reagan ended the Cold War, he brought domocracy to the Soviet Union. -
Ronald Reagan
Him and Gorbachev ended the Cold War, he assited in bringing domocracy to the Soviet Union.
