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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the united States. He is concerned about the soviet aggression in eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between capitalist western Europe and communist eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role in soviet aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine understood Americans support for other nations allegedly threatened by Soviet communism. The United States and Greece were involved and threatened by communist insurrection, and Turkey,under pressure from Soviet expansion in the Mediterranean area. It was announced to the congress. -
Marshall Plan
Military assistance to Greece and Turkey was given. President Harry Truman set George Marshall. The United States gave over $12 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was said in a speech at Harvard University. To aid in the economic recovery of nations. -
Berlin blockade
Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to parts of Berlin under Western control. The main cause of the Berlin Blockade was the Cold War. To force the Western Allied powers to abandon their post-World War II control in West Berlin. -
Berlin airlift
In response to the Soviet blockage the Berlin airlift starts. British pilots starts by sending large amount of food, water and medicine to the citizens of the city in Berlin and west Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 12 countries were involved. Its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation. It was joined in West Germany. -
Communist Take Over China
Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. He was a Chinese Communist leader and Chairman of the Communist Party of China .It was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. This was important because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang. -
Korean War
The united nations aided South Korea during the war and China fought on the side of North Korea. Their aim was to unite all of Korea under communist rule. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea.It was taken place in Korea, Korean peninsula and Korean demilitarized zone. -
Revolt in Hungary
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was involved. Khrushchev's policies were causing problems and people hated the hard line Stalinist regimes that Russia had put. A nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet imposed policies. Hungary's government collapsed. -
Sputnik
The first Soviet artificial satellite. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were working to develop new technology. The launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. It was launched in Gagarin's Start. -
Great Leap Foward
Mao Zedong was involved. He wanted to achieve an impossible goal in China of transforming a farming society to a modern industrial society. As a result there was a big decline in food output, which caused millions of deaths in the Great Chinese Famine. -
Apollo Program
The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. It happened because the soviet union started to build nuclear missiles in Cuba. It took place in Cuba and Caribbean Sea. -
Vietnam War
The United States, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic , Kingdom of Laos and Republic of China were all involved. A long conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally. -
Cultural Revolution
China's communist leader Mao Zedong launched the cultural revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. This happened in China. To restore capitalism. Changed the cultural life of the country. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia. 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring. This happened to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
