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Communists win China
During China's war with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek had moved his forces deep into the interior, leaving a political vacuum in the east to be filled by the Communists. -
Atomic Bomb
the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 -
Buffer States of the USSR
Buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II, and to when they were communist states after World War II. #Detente -
U.S. Aid to Greece
An extension of military and economic aid to Greece in 1947 plunged the United States into deep involvement in Greek -
Molotov Plan
The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe -
Marshall Plan
A program that the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries. -
Berlin airlift
The first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold Wa -
NATO Established
Military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 -
USSR gets atomic bomb
The USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” #DominoTheory -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950. #MutallyAssuredDestruction -
Coup in Iran
the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh #ContainmentTheory -
Coup in Guatemala
A covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence -
Communist Angola
was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola founded in October 1955. -
Warsaw Pact formed
A defence treaty signed in Warsaw. -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
Also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia -
Suez Canal Crisis
Was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France -
Hungary (Rebellion)
A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Cuba (Missile Crisis)
A 13-day (October 16-28 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment -
China explodes atomic bomb
October 16, 1964, China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s. -
Coup in Chile
Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. -
End of troops in Vietnam
U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists. -
SDI
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
War in El Salvador
A conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front -
Evil Empire Speech
The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy -
Iran Contra Affair
A political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. #DominoTheory -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. -
Fall of the USSR
The Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.
