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Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization -
United Nations Formed
Was a sucess because the Us joined now the headquarters are located in NY -
Winston Churchill Speech
Iron Curtain speech was one of the inaugural moments of the Cold War. In it, the former prime minister sounded an alarm to Great Britain about Soviet encroachments in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR that the USA would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Belrin Blockade
An international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the act of Stalin closing the roads from east Germany so that supplies werent transported so in order to transport supplies they were flown over the wall -
Forming of NATO
Was formed to form an alliance to stand against the soviet union. -
Arms Race
The arms race was a competeion between two or more countries to have the best armed forces -
Korea War
The goals for the Korean War was to Put an end to communism -
Truman Fires Macarthur
Primarily because MacArthur publicly disagreed with Truman's Korean War plans. Truman wanted to try and keep China out of the war at all costs. But when China sent troops into North Korea to fight against UN forces, MacArthur intended to make strategic attacks inside China. Truman did NOT want a war with China, even if it meant ignoring previous attacks. MacArthur sent letters to congress, expressing his opposition to Truman's policies...and he also sent an ultimatum letter to China, without Tru -
Joseph Stalin Dies
Stalin died at the age of 73 from a cerebral hemorrhage. His death was announced the next day and many people wept even despite that fact that he was thought to be responsible for killing millions of his own people through purging. He lead his people to victory in world war two. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States attempting to prevent the spread of communism. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Egypt Took Control of Suez Canal
Britain had ruled Egypt for all of the Twentieth Century. This gave Britain joint control over the Suez Canal – along with the French – which had been described as the “jugular vein of the Empire”. The Suez Canal cut a vast number of miles off a sea journey from Europe to Asian markets and vice-versa and made a journey around the volatile Cape of Good Hope unnecessary. However, the British presence in Egypt was not welcome by many Egyptians as they were made to feel second class citizens in thei -
Invasion of Hungary
Hungary in 1956 seemed to sum up all that the Cold War stood for. The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were ruled over with a rod of iron by Communist Russia and anybody who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. The death of Stalin in 1953 did not weaken the grip Moscow had on the people of Eastern Europe and Hungary, by challenging the rule of Moscow, paid such a price in 1956. -
Space Race
The race to see which country could get out to space first. -
Sputnik
FIrst Man Made satellite. Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. The word 'Sputnik' originally meant 'fellow traveler,' but has become synonymous with 'satellite' in modern Russian. -
Soviets Launch Man Made Satellite
Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm.or 22.8 inches in diameter), weighed only 83.6 kg. or 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
U-2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was intended to provoke popularity for an uprising against Fidel Castro, who had overthrown American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Instead, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to American aggression. -
Berlin Wall
The wall was put up to prevent East Germans from escaping the oppressive, repressive, police state of the German Democratic Republic -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crists was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Nakita Khrushchev comes to power
He emerged as the new Soviet leader by prevailing in a bitter series of Moscow power struggles after Josef Stalin's death in 1953. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The invasion of afghanistan by soviet troops -
US invades Grenada
In 1983 the United States invaded the island of Grenada and Overthrew the communist government in favor of a pro-Western one in a span of less than two months. -
MIkhail Gotbachev comes to power
After coming to power, Mikhail Gorbachev announced his main goal was to revive the Soviet economy, which was stalled. He called for urgent reorganization and modernization, but soon realized that without reforming the political and social structure of the whole nation -
INF Treaty
The Treaty Between the USA and the USSR on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, referred to as the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty, requires destruction of the Parties' ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, their launchers and associated support structures and support equipment within three years after the Treaty enters into force -
German Reunification
Was the process in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. -
USSR Breakup
Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War
