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Russian communist Revolution
The Russian Revolution defeats the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. A second Russian Revolution placed the Bolsheviks as the leaders of Russia, resulting in the creation of the world's first communist country. The Russian Revolution established the lack of confidence and mutual fear that would eventually cause the Cold War. -
Treaty of Versailles
Was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This connects to the Cold War by the division of Germany annabled them generously to rebuild the western zones. -
League of Nations
International organization to promote world peace corporation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles. This was used to create world peace in the Cold War -
Pope John Paul II
He contributed to the collapse of communism in the eastern and Central Europe by making a pilgrimage to Poland. This produced an inspiring spiritual awakening in Poland. He relates to the Cold War b/c by his spiritual beliefs he does not agree with nuclear warfare. -
Warsaw Pact
formally the treaty of friendship, Co-operation, and mutual assistance. it was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in central / Eastern Europe. This exists during the Cold War because Soviets thought NATO was a threat so that is why the Warsaw Pact was created. It was a way of keeping communism governments by having an alliance. -
Yalta Conference
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta, in Crimea. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. -
Nuclear Deterrent
US and Soviet Union-both had nuclear weapons, there was a constant threat of nuclear war. Nuclear war never happened in the cold war, but there were many close calls. The constant buildup of nuclear arms with both superpowers was the main focus of the cold war-the arms race. A heavy dependence on the Military-Industrial Complex and theories such as Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) used by President Kennedy and Strategic Defense Initiative. -
Nuremberg Trials
A series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces of World War II for the members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The indictments were for participation in a common plan for crime against peace. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government. The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David E. Lilienthal to draw up a plan. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Churchill recognized that with the Berlin blockade and the building of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union was saying to the West that the East was the Russian sphere of influence, and that the West was not invited to participate in the politics of Eastern Europe -
Truman Doctrine
It establishedthat the United States would provide political,economic, and military assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarians. The Truman Doctrine helped protect Greece and Turkey from Soviet because they were threatening them during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
(officially the European Recovery Program) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States have $13 billion in support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of WWII. This was used to antagonize the Soviet Union, provoking the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
Was a response of the western allies to the Berlin blockade by the USSR. –[pIt made clear that the west would not give up Berlin regardless if the USSR would increase the pressure. -
United Nations
Once World War II was over, problems dissolved between the United States and the Soviet Union. Their continued goodwill and cooperation was a condition for United Nations success. The spreading post-1945 Cold War between the Soviet and U.S., west European blocks ensured the failure of collective security and rendered of the United Nations. -
NATO Created
The North Atlantic Treaty Organized a military alliance of countries from Europe and North America promising collective defence. NATO was formed to counter the communist East and has searched for a new identity in the post-Cold War world. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Mao Zedong declared the creation of people's republic of china. The fall of mainland china to communism in 1949 led the united states to suspend diplomatics. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
McCarthy spent almost five years trying to expose communists and other “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. In the Cold War, insinuations of disloyalty were enough to convince many Americans that their government was packed with traitors and spies. -
Korean War
The Korean was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by China and the Soviet Union. -
Sputnik launched
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite named Sputnik, to be hurled into orbit around the Earth. It had a profound effect on the thinking of citizens and governments around the globe. Russian engineers wanted to make sure that people around the globe could both see and hear it. Sputnik was polished so it would reflect light that could be seen with from 175 miles up in the sky. And it broadcast a "beep-beep" pattern of signals that could be picked up by amateur radio operators around the wo -
Bay of Pigs
Was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. -
Apollo 11
A common argument by demonstrating our technological to the Soviets, Apollo helped win the Cold War. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
Built by the Communism government of the German Democratic Republic. It's purpose was to separate east from the west. It was made from barbed wire, and later was replaced with concrete wall. The construction of the wall caused a short term crisi in U.S. Soviet block relations, & the wall itself became a known symbol of the Cold War. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
During the Cold War Cuba was a bad place to be. Castro was a dictator and it was rumored that Cuba was holding nuclear missiles. The U.S. invaded but were defeated and this caused an uproar. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union began building secret missile bases in Cuba. President Kennedy was shown photographs of the missile in Cuba. President Kennedy responded by televising an address stating the discovery of the weapons and that any attack coming from Cuba would be treated as an attack from the Soviet Union. He imposed a naval blockade of Cuba to stop the construction of the sites. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
President Johnson send ground troops to Vietnam to save the south and north Vietnam because United States did not want Communist to spread over thief governments. Obviously this relates to the Cold War b/c we were fighting against communism spreading. -
Kent State Shootings
President Richard Nixon, suggested the shootings had a direct impact from national politics. -
Fall of Saigon
After many years of fighting in Vietnam and the lack of public support in the U.S. along with other domestic issues, President Richard Nixon was ready for peace in Vietnam. North Vietnam saw no need to settle the war diplomatically and responded to the U.S. request. By the summer it became apparent that the U.S. was able to ward off this offensive and in October the North Vietnamese were willing to negotiate peace. -
Margaret Thatcher
When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, many in the West had come to believe that the Cold War could not and should not be won, that anti-Communism was morally wrong, and that the future lay in détente between the superpowers and the evolution of democracy into ever-deepening state socialism. By the time she left office, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Eastern Europe was liberated. A year later, the Soviet Union crumbled into the dustbin of history. Democracy and freedom were on the advance -
SALT I SALT II
The two rounds of talks and agreements were SALT I and SALT II. Negotiations commenced in Helsinki, Finland, in November 1969. SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two countries. -
MAD
The nuclear strategy doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). This was based upon the size of countries respective nuclear arsenals and their unwillingness to destroy civilization. This goes towards the Cold War b/c this was assured that if one uses nuclear power it will be fired right back at them. No one would win in this situation. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who led his country towards a market economy. Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, he nonetheless was the "paramount leader" of the People's Republic of China. -
Berlin Wall
Was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Cold War began across Eastern Europe, citizens of the GDR were announced to freely cross the countries boarder. At midnight they flooded through the checkpoints. People used hammers and picks to knock away the wall, while bulldozers pull down sections. This was the end of the Cold War. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The cold war heated back up after the invasion of Afghanistan, both sides engaged in a series tensions. The Soviets placed missiles in Eastern Europe and the United States responded by deploying its own systems in West Germany. -
Lech Walesa
Well-known as the labor leader. He was sworn in as the first noncomunist president of Poland since the end of WWII. He led the movement that changed Communism nations to Democratic nations. The end of Communism led to the end of the Cold War. -
START I / START II
start 1 - treaty that decreases use of nuclear weapons for the United States Soviets/Russia during the Cold War.
Start 2 - missiles to 3800 to 4259 by 2000 and 3500 by 2003 -
Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was an agreement signed by several of the major nuclear and non-nuclear powers that pledged their cooperation in stemming the spread of nuclear technology. Although the NPT did not 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 for advocates of arms control because it set a precedent for international cooperation between nuclear an -
General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and the only one in which all member nations have equal representation. Its powers are to oversee the budget of the United Nations, appoint the non-permanent members to the Security Council, receive reports from other parts of the United Nations and make recommendations in the form of General Assembly Resolutions. It has also established a wide number of subsidiary organs.
