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Russian Communist Revolution
Multiple revolutions in Russia happened in this time, from the tsar being overthrown, to the provitional government, being overthrown and the Bolshevik's comming to power and spreading communism throughout Russia. -
Treaaty of Versilles
This treaty put heavy reperations on Germany for WWl, which caused Germany to go into an economic depression. This depression was the start of the spread of communism, and Soviet power through Europe. Due to this treaty, WWll, and the Cold War happened, and many nations were taken over by cummunist powers because of their weakness. -
League of Nations
After WWll, the league itself decided to change itself, and form the United Nations, which tried to contain communism as much as possible during the Cold War. -
Nuremberg Trials
The purpose of these trials was to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. This helped stop the spreaed of communism in Europe during the Cold War. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Right after the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong inplemented the People's Republic of China. This ended the war between the Chinese communist party and the Chinese nationalist party, to give the communists full contorl of China. This led to the spread of communism in Asia, which led to the cold war. -
United Nations Formed
Formed by 26 nations at the end of WWll, they vowed to fight against axis power spreading in Europe together, and to try and contain communism as much as possible. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, many agreements were made such as the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. The impact of the conference agreements became controversial after Soviet-American wartime cooperation degenerated into the Cold War. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly was formed off of the United Nations. It was formed to oversee the finances of the United Nations, and to be a debate place for all countires involved in the United Nations. It has equal representation for all nations involved, to make decison making equal and easy. It was formed during the Cold War, and many secutiry issues were debated between the US and Soviet Union. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was presented to the United Nations by the United States. This plan was a proposal for international control of atomic weapons. It was rejected by the Soviet Union, though, because they felt that the US had too much control, and wouldn't follow the rules of the plan. -
Pope John Paul II
He was completely against Communism and believed that the free people could put an end to it. IN 1979, the Pope visited Poland and that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity trade union. About a decade later, the Poles realized that they were in control and ultimately collapsed Communism in eastern and central Europe. Pope John Paul II helped significantly to win the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe during the cold war with this speech, and warned of the control of the Soviet Union and their communist satellite countries. -
Truman Doctrine
This official declaration of the Cold War President Harry S. Truman asked for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. -
Marshall Plan
After WW2, Europe was weak and susceptible to Communism. IN defense against this Communist fear, the U.S.conomic aid for the rehabilitation of Western Europe. -
Berlin Airlift
After WWII, Berlin was divided into four sections, each being apart of the Soviet zone of Germany. The Russians wanted Berlin to be rid of the French, British, and Americans, so they close all highways, canals, and railways connecting Western Berlin and Western Germany. The U.S. and its allies decided to deliver necessary supplies and fuel to Berlin by air. After it became clear that this was a Soviet failure in 1949, the blockade was lifted. -
NATO created
The North American Treaty Organization was created by the US, Canada, and many Western Euopean nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. This group was formed because of a fear of the spread of communism during the Cold War. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
Senator Joseph McCarthy listed ,in a speech he gave, over 200 names of the Department of State members who were "known communists". This speech led to fear and distrust in the government, which caused American people to fear communism more than ever. Which caused the Cold War. -
Korean War
This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. After the North Koreans invaded into the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea across the 38th paralell, the Americans joined to fight as allies with the northern Koreans. -
Warsaw Pact
This collective defense treaty was established between the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It is considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
Sputnik Launched
The world's first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union during the space race of the cold war. -
Nuclear Deterrent
Put into place after both the US and Soviet Union built up their nuclear arsenal of weapons. It was an agreement between the two super powers, that if fired upon by the other, atomic force would be used, and the other country would be destroyed. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall–the Berlin Wall–to permanently close off access to the West. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War–a literal “iron curtain” dividing Europe. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Fidel Castro delcared Cuba a communist state to gain assistance from the Soviet Union. Soon after this declaration, Cuban military defeated a US military invasion to end Castro's rule, in the Bay of Pigs. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was a failed invasion by the US CIA. The CIA wanted to invade Cuba so they could see how many nuclear missiles were there. These missiles were put there by the Soviet Union, pointed straight at the US. The bay of pigs failed, and it made the US look weak and unintelligent. -
MAD
Mutual Assured Destruction is a military doctrine that emerged to create equal vulnerability between opposing nations. This was put into action when it became apparent during the Cold War that the Soviet Union and the U.S. had reached nuclear parity. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets installed nuclear misseiles in Cuba, which led to mass fear in a nuclear world war. This was ended when Kennedy and Krushchev came to an agreement to inactivate and removed all missiles from Cuba if the US didn't invade, and removed our missiles from Turkey. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
By the end of the year, there were 200,000 U.S. troops there. This was the first major conventional clash between USA and NVA at Ia Drang. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era proxy war. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
This treaty was signed between several non-nuclear and nuclear powers to pledge their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. The treaty was a success in terms of the Cold War. The advocates of arms control set rules for international cooperation between nuclear and non-nuclear states to prevent proliferation. -
Apollo 11
The worls's first space mission to send men to the moon directed by America's NASA, this mission was part of the international space race with the Soviet Union. The space race was part of the cold war in that, both the US and Soviet Union wanted to send satellites into space to spy on one another, launch rockets across oceans, and prove scientific intelligence over the other. -
Kent State Shootings
Over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War, students at Kent State University were shot, killed or wounded by the Ohio National Gaurd. The US was in Vietnam, though, because the Soviet Union was trying to spread communism there to increase there power during the cold war. -
SALT 1
The Strategic Arms Limitations Talks were negotiations between the Soviet Union and Unites States that were directed at restricting manufacturing of nuclear weapons.These negotiations helped to reduce the threat of nuclear warfare in the Cold War. -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon, in South Vietnam, marked the end of the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese froces took over the presidential palace of South Vietnam, and killed the last few American soldiers left in South Vietnam, and communist leaders led by the Soviet Union took control of South VIetnam. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng was a big military leader during the Chinese Communist Revolution. He was part of many political institutions in China during the Cold War, that supported communism spreading, and the uprising of the Soviet Union. -
SALT 2
A continuation of SALT 1, SALT 2 had the same ideas on limiting the number of missiles each country could have. However, due to expectations of the treaty being broken by the Soviets, it wasn't reinstated until 1979, by President Carter. This treaty the next year, was not ratified again due to the same fears of Soviet disloyalty. -
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister Thatcher of the U.K., alongside Reagan and the Pope, won the defeat of Communism in eastern and central Europe. She has been described by the Polish foreign minister as a "fearless champion of liberty" who "stood up for captive nations" and "helped the free world win the Cold War". -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Nearly 100,000 Soveit army persoonal invaded Afghanistan in hopes of speading their control, and communism. Anyone who got in the Soviet's way was imediately killed or jailed for life. This led to a communist uprising that caused the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. -
Berlin Wall
Communist East Germany built a wall separating East Germany and West Germany. East Germany simply built the wall to keep West Germans out. In november of 1989, East Germany allowed its people to cross freely. It still stands as an iconic symbol of the Cold War today. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to end, the spokesman for Eastern Europe's Communist party announced that Eastern and Western Berlin would be freed of their separation. Berlin was unified as one for the first time since 1945. -
Lech Walesa
The president of Poland, sworn in in 1990, played a small but significant role in ending the Cold War. By providing communication between party members in regards to Solidarity, Walesa started the journey to further developments of the Soviet bloc. -
START 1
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a bilateral treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to reduce strategic offensive arms. Its final implication was in 2001. This treaty was successful in limiting arms and expired in 2009. The issue of how to handle nuclear weapons was resolved, each side was to state when they had weapons and to not exceed 880. This helped to reduce the risk of nuclear warfare during the Cold War. -
START 2
The U.S. and Russia attempted to put higher arms reductions into place with START 2. This treaty was never used. Russia perceived it as a serious defiance of START 1. This occurred after the Cold War.
