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Russian Communist Revolution
The Russian Communist Revolution was the series of revolutions in Russia during 1917 that eventually led to the fall of the Tsarist Autocracy (under Tsar Nicholas ll.) It was then that Russia would become known as the Soviet Union, who would take on The United States in the Cold War. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that brought the world the end of World War 1. This treaty punished Germany quite heavily, leaving them defenseless and in deep debt. However, the world became concerned for Europe and how they would survive after the actions taken by Adolf Hitler. -
League Of Nations
The League of Nations was a result of the Paris Peace Conference. It was an intergovernmental organisation. It was meant to be a peace keeping body. The League of Nations ended up being very ineffective and they never ended up helping in world situations.The U.S. never joined the League of Nations and if they did it could have helped them be more effective. -
Kent State Shooting
These were shootings on college students when they were protesting about the Vietnam War. There were 29 guards that shot and killed 4 unarmed students. Most of them were protesting to bring soldiers home from Vietnam.They even buried a copy of the constitution saying that Nixon, "killed it", This relates to the Cold War because we were trying to stop the spread of communism to Vietnam and they were protesting to just leave and bring soldiers home. -
Yalta Conference
This was the meeting between the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union to discuss the reorganization of war-torn Europe and Germany. This relates to Cold War because the Soviets broke there promise for free elections in east Europe and made Soviet governments instead. -
United Nations
The United Nations was formed after World war II to replace the League of Nations. It was founded to prevent another major conflict. The UN provided a battle ground between the communist and non communist countries because they could veto each others requests and stop the security council from acting. -
General Assembly
A place where all member nations have equal representation and it is the policy-making and representative organ of the UN. During the Cold War, it was very hard to get decisions passed because there were a lot of radically different people from different nations in the General Assembly. -
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trails held in Nuremberg, Germany held by the Allied Powers of World War ll. The goal of these trails was to bring all Nazi War criminals to justice for their horrific acts during the war. This would leave a lasting effect on the world as it showed the consequences for war. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech was the speech that Winston Churchill gave that informed the world that Russia had built the "Iron Curtain," which separated Eastern and Western Europe. This lasted until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a plan proposed by the US to put control of nuclear weapons under the United Nations. This plan didn't pass which lead to a huge nuclear arms race in the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine provided financial aid to European countries in an effort to prevent the spread of Communism throughout Europe. This stopped the Soviet Union from becoming more powerful and growing their spheres of influence. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan provided economic assistance to European countries to rebuild after the end of World War II. This helped nations to rebuild and it stopped communism from spreading. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the United states response to the Soviets constructing the Berlin wall. The U.S Airlifted supplies to their territory in west Berlin in an effort to avoid using force against the soviet union. This stopped the soviets from taking over west Berlin and taking control of Germany. This stopped them from making progress against America in the Cold war. -
NATO Created
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization it was formed between the western allies. It was made to prevent the Soviets from invading eastern Europe. The soviet nations countered this by forming the Warsaw Pact. This deterred both sides from attacking on and other during the cold war. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was lead by Mao Zedong. He promised peasants rich peoples land, at the time most of the population was peasants. He also rallied up a bunch of his communist followers. He then had a whole group of peasants and communist revolutionaries behind him and he overthrew the government and began to turn China into a communist country. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
During the speech McCarthy publicly claimed that 205 communists had infiltrated the United states government. This increased tensions in the U.S. because it made the citizens think that the soviets were walking among them. -
Korean War
North Korea was communist and supported by communist nations like the Soviets and South Korea was supported by democratic nations like the U.S. The U.S. wanted to put support in South Korea and at the U.N. meeting, the Soviets didn't show up, which allowed the U.S. to put troops in South Korea. At the end of the war, Korea remained separated at the 38th parallel and they made demilitarized zones. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed among the Soviets in Warsaw. This was formally addressed as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, and helped strengthen the Soviet Union's control over its satellites in eastern Europe. -
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik was the first satellite into space. It was one of the Soviets and this was considered a victory for them. Although this victory did not last for long as the U.S. ended up winning the space race by being the first country to put people on the moon. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Fidel Castro turned Cuba into a communistic country following the communist revolution he started back in 1953. The revolution was successful in overthrowing the government and Castro gained power. This increased tensions in the Cold war because it showed the U.S. how close communism had spread to them. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt by the United States to over through Fidel Castro. The CIA trained rebels in Cuba and supplied them with financial aid and weaponry. This shows the U.S. failing to put an end to communism and raising the tensions in the cold war. -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
Thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West Germany. So then, the communist East German authorities decided to build a wall to stop people from fleeing to the east. This relates to the Cold War because it was showing how the Soviets wanted to spread communism to Germany. This wall kind of symbolized the lack of freedom in communism. -
Berlin Wall
During the time the Berlin Wall was up, it was illegal to cross. Over 100 people trying to cross the border died from getting shot by guards -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba causing the United states to go into a state of panic. The U.S. responded by negotiating a deal with soviets to remove the missiles from Cuba. In return the U.S. would remove its missiles from Turkey. This was the closest to nuclear war the two nations got during the cold war. -
MAD
Mutually assured destruction is the idea that if one country were to use nuclear bombs against another country they would just respond by using nuclear force. MAD is a method of deterring or deescalating a major conflict between two nations because if one launches nukes the other will do the same and in the end both countries will be destroyed. This was used in the cold war to prevent nuclear war, one example of this is the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
US sends troops to Vietnam
In March 1965, President Johnson along with american support made the decision to send troops to Vietnam. By June, there were 82,000 soldiers in Vietnam and a predicted 175,000 more by the end of 1965. This relates to the Cold War because this shows how the U.S. wanted to stop the spread of communism at mostly any cost for democracy. -
Nuclear Deterrent
Nuclear Deterrent is when a nations nuclear weapons deter/scare off other countries from attacking them. This includes things like MAD. This relates to the Cold War because this nuclear deterrent was between the US and the Soviets. They knew if they were to attack one another, MAD would be unavoidable. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Non-Proliferation Agreement was a agreement to try to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and weapon technology. They wanted to use nuclear energy peacefully and disarmament of nuclear weapons. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the name of the spacecraft that delivered the first two men onto the moon (Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.) The three man crew consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, who boarded the spacecraft on July 16, 1969, and completed the trip successfully, landing back on earth July 24. This event relates to the Cold War because it claimed victory for the U.S. over the Soviet Union in "The Space Race." -
SALT l
The first Strategic Arms Limitations Talk (or SALT l ) was the agreement signed by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union in 1972. This agreement marked the first time throughout the Cold War that both sides of the United States and the Soviet Union both agreed to limit their number of nuclear missiles. -
The Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of South Vietnam's capital, Saigon, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Operation Frequent Wind, which evacuated all American civilian and military personnel in the capital, shorty before Saigon officially fell was the largest helicopter evacuation in history. This relates to the Cold War because once the Vietnam War ended, the Soviets had fully influenced communism in the area. -
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was an anti-communist leader. He helped speed up the end of the Cold War and fall of Soviet communism. He did this mainly in Eastern Europe. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was the leader of the People's Republic of China and he went to a meeting with Jimmy Carter. They decided to reorganize the People's Republic of China and form diplomatic relations. This relates to the Cold War because the US and China formed new relations compared to there prior bad relations because of the tensions between communism and democracy. -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret was elected prime minister of Britain in 1979. She became the first women to ever become prime minister. She deployed IRBMs to European satellite states in order to escalate tensions in the cold war. She did this in an effort to end the Cold war. -
SALT ll
SALT ll was the planned second agreement between the United States and the Soviets that was established in 1979. This was obviously the second time that both sides would have limited their quantities of nuclear weaponry during the Cold War, in which many specific guidelines were set in this treaty, though this agreement was never brought into real effect. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviets sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan and assumed control of Kabul and lots of the country. This relates to the Cold War because the Soviets again tried to spread communism more throughout the war. This is the first time they invaded somewhere other than the Eastern Bloc. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Due to effects of the Cold War across Eastern Europe, Eastern Berlin's Communist Party made clear the changes in the area's relationship with Western Europe. Then, after midnight that day, citizens were granted the freedom and opportunity to cross over the wall. -
Lech Walesa
Lech was the communist leader of Poland from 1990 to 1995. He was a labor activist from 1980 to 1990 and founded Poland's first communist trade union. This increased the tension between the U.S. and the Soviets because communism was continuing to spread
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START l
The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START l) was the agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans (USSR) that reduced strategic offensive arms. This was a major agreement that kept things limited for both sides during the Cold War. -
START II
This was a treaty between the US and Russia to reduce and limit the amount of strategic offensive arms of both nations. This Relates to the Cold War because it kind of showed how each nation is willing to back down so they do not get in a war.
