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Russian Communist Revolutioin
This day many women left their factories and entered the streets to protest. It was International Women's Day and the women of Russia were ready to be heard. Many other people started to join as it went on. -
Treaty of Versailles
A peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of Russian Revolution and other events in Russia -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was a group of people that came together to make the economy stronger. They helped developed rights, settling disputes between countries through negotiation, diplomacy and improving global quality of life. -
Yalta Conference
A conference held in Yalta where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Church Hill planned the final stages of WWII and agreed to the territoral division of Europe. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly is the body where all the of the members of the nations discuss issues and recommend actions for the United Nations. It also creates and passes laws. -
United Nations
During the Cold War the United Nations role was to the lead the Peace talk between China and North Korea. They were an Internaitonal Court for the trying of war crimes. -
Nuremberg Trials
These trials were to punish the German leaders for their atrocities as well as for other war crimes. -
Iron Curtain Speech
During the Cold War this speech caused tension because it showed that Britain and the USA were teaming up agasint Stalin. This speech described the line in Europe between self-governingnations of the West and those in Eastern Europe under Soviet Communist control. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was to turn the American stockpile of bombs over to an international agency. The plan preserved the American atomic monopoly for an indefinite future. -
Truman Doctrine
Was a proclamation by the United States President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. It stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid, to prevent their falling into soviet sphere. -
Marshall Plan
A broad program of economic aid offered originally to all European nations, including communist countries. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the delivery of food, fuel and other essential goods to the people living in West Berlin during an eleven month period of the Cold War. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph's speech had to deal with communism. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. It was the result of the political division of Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist States of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Sputnik launched
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was visible all around the Earth and its radio pulses were detectable. The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. It had severed the country's formerly strong links with the U.S. by expropriating their economic assets and developing links with the Soviet Union, with whom the U.S was then embroiled in the Cold War. -
Building of the Berlin Wall begins
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border, which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize the "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was constructed as a way of preventing East Berliners from entering West Berlin. It was not so much a boundary for West Berliners wanting to enter the East, who were able to do so by obtaining a permit several weeks in advance. It didn't face much opposition by the western powers as its construction confirmed that the Soviet Union were not planning to take over West Berlin. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Khrushchev had spread the Cold War to Caribbean by installing missles in Cuba. He wanted to use the missles as a bargaining lever to gain concessions in Berlin. -
U.S sends troops to Vietnam
President Johnson decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. -
Nuclear Deterrent
In foreign affairs, deterrence is a strategy intended to dissuade an adversary from undertaking an action not yet started, or to prevent them from doing something that another state desires. Deterrence theory gained increased prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by the late US President John F. Kennedy in a speech before the United States Congress, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth." -
SALT I
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War superpowers, on the issue of armament control. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in the U.S. city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
SALT II
SALT II was a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Fidel Castroborn is a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was Prime Minister of Cuba. He also served as the Commander in Chief of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. -
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was Pope from 16 October 1978 to his death in 2005. He was the second longest-serving pope in history. -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The soviets invaded Afghanistan because they wanted access to the Indian ocean for trade. The also have important natural rescources. They wanted to expand their influence in Asia, expand soviet emipre and support a pro-communist government. -
MAD
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Wall marked the first critical step towards German reunification, which formally concluded a mere 339 days later on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of East Germany and the official reunification of the German state along the democratic lines of the West German government. -
Lech Walesa
Lech Walesa is an activist who is famous for trying to free his native country Poland from communist rule. -
START I
START I was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao's death led his country towards a market economy. -
START II
START II was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms.
