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China's civil war
Fought because of a differnce in thinking between the Communist China party and the Nationalist Kuomintang. -
Mutual Assured Destruction
based on the theory of deterrence, which holds that the threat of using strong weapons against the enemy prevents the enemy's use of those same weapons -
WW2 ended
WW2 ended in 1945. -
United Nations
The United Nations was created to gather world leaders to discuss and solve economic and political issues. -
Churchill Iron Curtain speech
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies at the end of WW2 -
Berlin Airlift
Due to the Berlin borders being closed, the U.S and U.K started bringing in airlifts of food, fuel, and other supplies. -
NATO
Alliance formed after WW2 to strengthen international ties between member states. -
RDS-1
Soviet Union's first atomic bomb test. Very similar to the U.S;s "Fat Man" -
H-bomb
Hydrogen bomb created by the United States. -
Tiananmen Square
a large city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. -
Korean War
War between North and South Korea. Involveing the US, China, USSR. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of the United States. -
Joseph Stallin death
Death of Soviet Union leader. -
End of Korean War.
No peace treaty was made, but a cease fire was enstated. -
SEATO
Primarily created to block further communist gains in Southeast Asia, SEATO is generally considered a failure because internal conflict and dispute hindered general use of the SEATO military -
Warsaw Pact
a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
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Vietnam War
a Cold War-era proxy war[40] that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
Sputnik 1
the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. -
Castro take over cuba
an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades -
Francis Gary Powers
American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
John F. Kennedy
35th President of the US. -
Bay of Pigs
a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, -
Cuban Missle Crisis
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. Along with being -
JFK death
Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was murdered while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas at 12:30 PM CST on Friday, November 22, 1963. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. -
Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office -
Apollo 11
the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 -
First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. -
Gerald Ford
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Jimmy Carter
39th President of the U.S -
Soviet-Afghan War
Insurgent groups ("the Mujahideen"), who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. Between 850,000–1.5 million civilians were killed -
Miracle On Ice
merican popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, -
U.S boycott of the summer olympics
one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.[1] The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott in Los Angeles. -
Ronald Reagan
40th President of the U.S -
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization
a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
George Bush Sr.
41st President of the U.S -
Soviets leave Afghanistan
from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan. -
Berlin wall falls
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall) began the evening of 9 November 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks, with people nicknamed Mauerspechte (wall woodpeckers) using various tools to chip off souvenirs -
Gorbachev rise to power
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Boris Yeltsin
1st President of Russia -
Fall of the Soviet Union
enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
