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russian communist revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia which dismantled the Tsarists autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. ladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Dumas provisional government. This relates to the cold war because it created an outbreak and also escalated tensions in the USSR during the cold war. -
Treaty of versailles
This was the most important one of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Cold war- lead to wwll which led to the spread of communism and related to the cold war because it was the fight against communism -
Lauge of nations
The League's goals included disarmament, preventing war through collective security, settling disputes between countries through negotiation diplomacy and improving global welfare. This league fell in world war 2. Once it failed, it lead to the cold war. -
nuclear deterrent
this theory says that nuclear weapons are supposed to be used to deter other states from attacking with nuclear weapons. This was through promise of retaliation and MAD. The U.S created this deterrent for the cold war so that the soviets would not use nuclear power against them and the U.S will not use nuclear power against the soviets. -
united nations
an intergovernmental organization that had to maintain national peace. Their primary goal was to maintain peace. They had to create friendships between the nations and have peace. They also have to achieve international cooperation and be a center for harmonizing the actions of the nations. -
Nuremberg Trials
This was a series of trials that were held by the allied forces of international law. They were the most notable for prosecution members of the military, political, and economic leaders of Nazi Germany for whoever participated in the holocaust. To avoid capture, some of the leaders committed suicide. This is related to the cold war through the soviets. There were former soviet workers that were involved in the Nuremberg trials during the cold war. -
yata conference
The World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union talking and discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization.The Yalta Conference helped lead to the Cold War by giving the Soviet Union control over Eastern Europe so this then made the West feel that the USSR was bent on expanding communism. -
Baruch plan
A proposal by the U.S government, by Baruch but was based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission during its first meeting. The U.S, GB and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and Lilienthal to draw up a plan. The failure of gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the U.S and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
pope John Paul
Served as pope and sovereign of the Vatican city state. He was elected by the second papal conclave of 1978. He was elected by the second papal conclave of 1978. He believed that communism was bad. He was related to the cold war because he went against the soviets and did not believe in the what they thought. -
iron curtian speech
Churchill wrote a speech describing the “iron curtain” and explaining how that the curtain isolated the soviets from everyone else. Having their secrets about the government and everything because they did not like the system. The speech was meant to exploit the soviet union. The speech was given towards the end of the cold war. The iron curtain speech helped put an end to the cold war. -
Truman doctrine
this is when the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal strict forces. Relations to the cold war implied American support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. -
Marshall plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe. The us gave over than $12 billion dollars in economic assistance to help out and rebuild western Europe economies when world war ll game to an end. The cold war is when Russia did not take the money and everyone else did and they fell behind. -
NATO
the NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This organization had 29 member states from north america and europe. It is an intergovernmental military alliance between the states. The purpose of it was to defend each other from a possible communist attacks by the soviet union taking control of their nation. The way this relates to the cold war is because it was formed during the cold war, it stood as a long alliance during the war. -
Chinese communist revolution
This was the second part of the Chinese civil war. It was a culmination of the communist party to drive power. This resulted in changing the nations social development during the later half of the twentieth century. This is related to the cold war through Mao Zedong. He was the leader of china and trying to force the communist lifestyle into china. He was friends with Stalin, and considered one of the most significant figures of the cold war. -
Berlin airlift
the Russians had cut off access from the Allied zones of occupation in West Germany to West Berlin, which was in the Russian zone (what became East Germany). So the Allies had to either surrender West Berlin , so they started to airlift supplies that were very needed instead but most agree that it failed… It worked up up Cold War tensions and made the USSR look to the rest of the world like a enemy. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
This speech calls out over 2oo people in the department of state that he thinks are communist. Also, months before this, he has also been trying ones from america's cold war policies. This speech started something called “McCarthyism”, which is the hunt for communist in the U.S. This act has damaged many people careers and even their lives. These Relates to the cold war because it had the domino effect on domestic debate on cold war problems. This was then called the “red scare”. -
Koren war
July 27, 1953 ,The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. This is when North Korea invaded South Korea and right after their was battle along the border. Korea was split into two sovereign states in the result -
sputnik launching
sputnik was launched by the soviet union. This changed history because it was the first artificial satellite. The satellite was about the size of a beach ball. It took the satellite 98 minutes to orbit the earth on its elliptical path. Sputnik being launched was the starting of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The space race is connected to the cold war because the launch pad that were used for the rockets could be used for missiles to send across the seas. -
Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba
While Cuba was under control of Fidel Castro, Cuba has made huge economic, political, and social changes. He was associated with a group of revolutionaries toppled the ruling government of Effulgence Batista, forcing them out of power. This relates to the cold war because he became an important ally to the soviet union. Ever since they became allies, the soviets have been giving them military, economic, and political assistance. This becomes very important in the cold war. -
MAD
Mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. This relates to the cold war through the use of nuclear weapons and power. -
building of Berlin wall
The building of the wall is when they divided east and west Berlin when Berlin just collapsed and East Germans fled to democratic west Germany. Relates, For three contentious decades the Berlin Wall the true dividing line between freedom and tyranny during the Cold War. ... government had any intention of building a wall between East and West Berlin. ... The conflict began in late June 1948, when the Soviet Union cut off all land communications to West Berlin. -
bay of pigs
the Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency. Fifty years ago, shortly before midnight on 16 April 1961, a group of some 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas. -
Cuban missile crisis
this was a 13 days long event between the U.s and the soviets. The soviets have placed missiles in uba to fire at the U.S. Cuba is also only 90 miles away from the U.S, so if they were launched, it would damage the U.S severely. This occurs during the cold war and started a nuclear conflict. This frightened everyone and made them fear a nuclear war. -
U.S sends troops to western Vietnam
There were 23,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam, but this escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Ton-kin incident, in which a U.S. destroyer was alleged to have clashed with North Vietnamese fast attack craft. The U.S. government viewed its involvement in the Cold war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam. This was part of the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the aim of stopping the spread of communism. -
non-proliferation agreement
Know as the NPT. The goal of it was to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, and also to promote positive uses for nuclear energy and to achieve nuclear disarmament. This treaty was signed during the cold war, to stop nuclear war. The cold war is supposed to be a war without nuclear weapons, and the treaty helps keep it that way. -
Apollo 11
the first 2 people to ever walk on the moon. The names of the people were Neil Armstrong and buzz Aldrin. Armstrong said “one small step for man…. But a giant step for mankind”. This relates to the cold war because this was a part of the space race against the soviet union. This was america's move after the soviets launched sputnik into space. -
Deng xiaoping
rising through political ranks to become the communist leader who ruled China from the late 1970s until 1997. He abandoned many communist doctrines and incorporated elements of the free-enterprise system into the economy. Toward the end of the cold war, the relationship between china while he ran and the European government had a strange relationship during the war. -
Kent state shooting
guardsmen from the Ohio national guard were sent to Kent State because of a protest. The protest was against the bombing of Cambodia by the U.S military forces. At the scene, 28 guardsmen started shooting. They fired approximately 67 rounds in about 13 seconds. This incident ended up killing 4 students, and harming 9 injured One of the injured students suffered permanent. This connects to the cold war because they were protesting against the war that America was involved because of communism. -
Salt (1/11)
signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972 and 1979, respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
fall of Saigon
The people's army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the national liberation front of south Vietnam. captured the capital, Saigon, of Vietnam. This event marked the end of the Vietnam war and started a transition period to the reunification of Vietnam. Then Vietnam war is in the cold war, this was a huge part of the war from a capital being taken over. -
soviets invade Afghanistan
The soviets sent in 30,000 troops to invade them. As little time passed, 100,000 soviet troops were then controlling the bigger cities and towns. The group the soviets wanted to get rid of is mujaheddin. The mujaheddin were eventually able to neutralize Soviet air power through the use of aircraft missiles supplied by the Soviet Union’s Cold War Adversary, the U.S. This was during the cold war. The U.S was with the Afghanistan rebels and wanted communist to end. -
margret thatcher
was a British states woman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative . She is important to the cold war because she believed that many in the West had come to believe that the Cold War could not and should not be won, that anti-Communism was wrong, and the future lay in détente between the superpowers and the evolution of democracy. By the time she left office, the Berlin Wall fell and East Europe was liberated. A year later, the Soviet Union crumbled. -
general assembly
Decisions on important questions, such as those on peace and security, admission of new members and budgetary matter, require a two-thirds majority. This relates to the cold war because the general assembly had to do with the united nations,and the united nations took a big role in the cold war. -
fall of berlin wall
As the Cold War began to go across Eastern Europe, the speaker for East Berlin's Communist Party said a change in his city's relations with the West. immediately started later that night at twelve , citizens of the GDR were free to cross the borders.The wall showed the lack of freedom under communism. It showed the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic, capitalist bloc.Berlin was on the frontline in the Cold War struggle between the superpowers. -
lech walesa
Lech Wałęsa is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, Lech Walesa was responsible for leading the movement that changed Poland from a Communist nation into a democratic nation. The end of Communism led to the end of the Cold War. -
Berlin wall in between construction fall
When the iron curtain was just falling and tearing apart, this started the end of the cold war. When Gorbachev assumed the power in the Soviet Union and no one thought that the revolution he would bring.Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S, Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.Soviet bloc characterized the wall as a necessary protection against the shameful of corrupt Western culture and capitalism. -
start
was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on. This relates to the cold war because the soviet union and the U.S are the cold war superpowers, and this treaty had to do with the two superpowers. -
Warsaw pact
The pact was known as the Treaty of Friendship, it was said to be a collective defense treaty. It was signed in Warsaw, Poland by the Soviet Union and 7 Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe. aIt was the Communist counteraction to NATO . The Warsaw Pact came to be seen as maybe to be a chance of militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist superiority, and a definite enemy to American capitalism. The signing became a symbol of Soviet superiority in Eastern Europe.
