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Margaret Thatcher
Prime minister of the United Kingdom {1979-1990) she was known as the "Iron lady". She was making key decisions for the UK while the cold war was going on. -
Baruch Plan
exchange of basic scientific info for peaceful ends. implement control of nuclear power eliminate WMD, establish safeguards. The u.s. agreed to the plan. Soviets showed interest but did not agree because they become a nuclear world power in 1949 in the start of the cold war. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into west berlin by air after the government of east germany blocked access into the west. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed attempt in invading cuba in 1961. the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. This happened before the cuban missile crisis. In the cold war. -
Building of the Berlin Wall Begin
During the years of the Cold War West Berlin was a geographic loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic west. In response, the communist of East Germany authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. -
Berlin Wall
claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. -
MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction)
military strategy and national security policy in which a full scale use of nuclear weapons by 2 or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both attacker and the defender. This policy was mainly used in the arms race and the Cuban Missile Crisis during the cold war. When things were starting to heat up between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and the technology of weapons also to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy. This connects to the cold war because many treaties were made during the Cuban missile crisis to prevent the use of Nuclear weapons. -
Kent State Shootings
Shooting of students protesting the Vietnam war. Many schools closed due to the shootings. The Vietnam war was during the long lasted cold war. Which involved the U.S. in backing up the South Vietnamese while the north which was the communists backed up by the soviets. -
SALT (I/II)
After the cuban missile crisis the first agreement known as SALT I and SALT II were signed by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in 1972 and 1979. They were intended to restrain the arms race. -
Fall of saigon
it was the capital of south vietnam and the capture or fall marked the end of the vietnam war. The u.s. held evacs within the capital. This connects to the cold war because Saigon fell to communistic powers and communism was prospering during the cold war. -
Pope John Paul II
Shared strong convictions during the cold war. helped lead the west to victory. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
This war is considered a part of the cold war. This war was very expensive towards the USSR and gorbachev ended up withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This is when the head of the East German communist party announced that the citizens could cross the border of the Berlin Wall whenever they please. Some people just went over the border and went on with their lives, but some people stayed and started to destroy the wall with hammers and such. The Berlin Wall is still one of the powerful symbols that represent the Cold War. -
Lech Walesa
well-known Polish labor leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is sworn in as the first non communist president of Poland since the end of World War II. His victory was another sign of the Soviet Union’s lessening power and communism’s waning influence in Eastern Europe. -
START (I/II)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties, which consisted of START I a 1991 completed agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union and START II a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia, which was never ratified by the United States, both of which proposed limits on multiple-warhead capacities and other restrictions on each side's number of nuclear weapons.
