cold war timeline

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  • Mao Zedong

    Mao Zedong
    1. China
    2. Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
    3. china
    4. december 26, 1893
    5. because he was the chinese comminist revolutionary and founding father of china

  • iron curtain

    iron curtain
    1. europe
    2. Iron Curtain was the physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas
    3. started in discontent in Poland, and continued in Hungary, (East Germany), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
    4. 1945-1990
    5. prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

  • truman doctrine

    truman doctrine
    1. Truman Doctrine
    2. policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman
    3. united states
    4. march 12, 1947
    5. to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War.

  • Marshal Plan

    Marshal Plan
    1. united states and europe
    2. American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2
    3. europe
    4. april 3, 1948
    5. to rebuild western europe economy.

  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    1. the soviet union
    2. Russians wanted Berlin all for themselves closed all highways, railroads and canals from Germany into western-occupied Berlin. This, they believed, would make it impossible for the people who lived there to get food or any other supplies and would eventually drive Britain, France and the U.S. out of the city for good. The U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air.
    3. berlin
    4. june 1948
    5. russians wanted berlin to themselves

  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift
    1. Soviet Union was involved
    2. With the introduction of a new deutsche mark in West Berlin, which the Soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the Allies, the Soviet occupation forces in eastern Germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between Berlin and the west.
    3. took place in berlin
    4. 24 june, 1948
    5. to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.

  • korean war

    korean war
    1. South Korea, North Korea, United States, china, turkey
    2. War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North
    3. on june 25, 1950
    4. war was between South and North Korea, but America and Russia were using it to fight without having a 'hot war'.

  • rosenberg trial

    rosenberg trial
    1. trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
    2. espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians
    3. in New York Southern District federal court.
    4. march 6, 1951
    5. couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians

  • sputnik

    sputnik
    1. launched by the soviet union
    2. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit
    3. launched at Gagarin's Start
    4. launched on october 4, 1957
    5. for tehcnological advancement

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    1. cuba, united states, and soviet union
    2. was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
    3. in Bay of Pigs, southern coast of Cuba
    4. on april 17, 1961
    5. The hope was that the exile force would serve as a rallying point for the Cuban citizenry, who would rise up and overthrow Castro’s government.