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Russian Communist Revolution
28 March 1917- 29 November 1917
After the war the Soviet Union took control of several countries in Eastern Europe. They became known as the Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union became one of the world's two superpowers along with the United States. For many years they fought the west in what is today called the Cold War. -
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty blamed Germany for World War II. This forced the rise of Hitler, which led to communism in Germany. This led to the Berlin Wall that were caused by the spread of communism -
League of Nation
as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s. This League was intended to keep the peace and stop the spread of communism -
Yalta Conferance
4 February 1945-11 February 1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill all gathered at Yalta in Crimea to plan for the post war world order and the final defeat of Nazi Germany. They agreed on a declaration to respect democracy in Europe, and finalized plans to divide Germany into several different zones of occupation. -
MAD
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. Significant to the Cold War because it allowed unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. -
United Nations
International organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. It's important to the Cold War because it helped with developing peace between conflicts during the cold war. -
Nuremberg Trials
20 November 1945-1 October 1946
Over the next decade, these policies grew increasingly repressive and violent and resulted, by the end of World War II, in the systematic, state-sponsored murder of some 6 million European Jews -
Iron Curtain Speech
A speech that signified the beginning of the Cold War, the "Iron Curtain" symbolizing the Soviet Union blocking itself from contact with that US and areas that were not under their control. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
1 April 1946-1 April 1950
China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Mao Zedong came to feel that the current party leadership in China, as in the Soviet Union, was moving too far in a revisionist direction. -
General Assembly
28 April 1946-29 April 1949
When World War II ended the first General Assembly was in London, part of the meeting was to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction, including the atomic bomb. -
Baruch Plan
The United States presents the Baruch Plan for the international control of atomic weapons to the United Nations. The failure of the plan to gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Trumman Doctrine
This was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman. This speech stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. Historians often consider it as the start of the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
George Marshall proposed the Marshall plan, which called for a $13 billion foreign aid package. This was to help rebuild Europe after World War II -
Berlin Airlift
24 June 1948-12 may 1949
This was one of the first international crisis of the cold war. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, this would be giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. -
NATO Created
In response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union, the United States, Canada, and several other European nations formed The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was essentially an agreement of mutual defense between the nations. NATO was the first alliance that the US joined outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
McCarthy gave a speech and he declared that he had a list of 205 known members of the Communist Party who were “working and shaping policy” in the State Department. McCarthy was put in charge of the Committee on Government Operations, this allowed him to launch even more expansive investigations of the alleged communist infiltration of the federal government. -
Korean War
25 June 1950-27 July 1953.
Began when North Korea invaded South Korea; the United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. The significance to the Cold War is it set conflict between the communists and the West -
Warsaw Pact
This was a treaty that established a mutual-defense organization that composed of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungry and Romania. It provided a unified military command. -
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1's success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
17 April, 1961- 19 April 1961
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
This was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. -
Berlin Wall
13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
The borders symbolized the iron curtains that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. During the Cold War, an estimated 5,000 people tried to escape over the Wall resulting in a death toll of 100 or 200. -
Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba
By the time Castro formally declared Cuba a socialist state on May 1, 1961 and proclaimed himself a "Marxist-Leninist" in a televised speech on December 2, 1961,communist power in Cuba had been consolidated.Cuba would not only provide a base for anti-American activities in the Western Hemisphere but the island would also serve to project Moscow's influence throughout the Third World further exacerbating Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
16 October, 1962- 28 October, 1962
This was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. This later led to the Bay of Pigs. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
The US needed to send troops to secure airbases and facilities in Vietnam. It started with only 21,000 troops, but US had to send more to fight against Vietnam. This number grew to 540,000 soldiers -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
This agreement signed in 1968 by several major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. Although the NPT did not ultimately prevent nuclear proliferation, in the context of the Cold War arms race and mounting international concern about the consequences of nuclear war, the treaty was a major success.
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Apollo 11
16 July 1969 - 24 July 1969
For the United States, the mission was a Cold War maneuver and NASA could overtake the pioneering Russian space program and put a man on the moon. -
Kent State Shooting
Students participated in an anti war revolt on campus that was a rally of students trying to prevent war. -
SALT I
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and US President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. At the time, these agreements were the most far reaching attempts to control nuclear war. -
Fall of Saigon
Took over Saigon with little resistance, and it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their revolutionary leader. This led to the end of the Vietnam war. The South Vietnamese was not as advanced as the North was so they knew that they were going to be taken over eventually. Once taken over this lead to communism. -
Pope John Paul II
28 April 1978-29 April 2005
He is recognized as helping to end Communist rule in his native Poland and eventually all of Europe. -
Deng Xiaoping
28 April 1978-April 29 1989
Deng's era, set against the backdrop of the Cold war, saw the best Sino-American relations in history. -
Margaret Thatcher
28 April 1979-29 April 1990
Prime Minister for the united Kingdom and leader for the conservative party. She helped end communism -
SALT II
This treaty between Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Union leader, Leonid Brezhnev, helped stop the nuclear capability by setting limitations and guidelines. -
Soviets Invade Afganistan
28 April 1979-29 April 1989
The soviet union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan to take complete control throughout the nation. This let the soviet union to spread communism. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After many Eastern Germans fled westward to escape the communist country, East Germany decided to destroy the wall as an attempt to keep their power. This attempt failed, and the wall was dismantled and East Germany became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. -
Lech Walesa
April 28 1990- 29 April 1995
Was another leader to help with the fall of communism -
START I
This treaty, lead by Ronald Reagan, not only limited, but tried to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons -
START II
It will also reduce the total number of strategic nuclear weapons deployed. This threw away the nuclear weapons.
