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Berlin Airlift
President Truman, Winston Churchill, and Jasef Stalin. They met at patsdam to divide Germany into what they saw as four tempory occupation zones. This happened in July, 1945. Everything started in England and western Germany and ended in west Berlin. It was a response from the United States to the soviet blockade of land routes into west Berlin. -
Iron Curtain Speech
President Harry S. Truman and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were involved. Churchill began to praise the United States and Great Britain to for a special relationship. This even happened in March, 5 1946. The speech occurred in the U.S. In 1946. Churchill warned of an Iron Curtain of Soviet Totalitarianism that had divided the European continent into the Eastern and Western Europe. Churchill blamed USSR for the problem. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Historians have often cited Truman’s address, which came to be known as the Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War.In February 1947, the British government informed the United States that it could no longer furnish the economic and military assistance it had been providing to Greece and Turkey since the end of World War II. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. Program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
NATO
Twelve countries were apart of of the founding of NATO, Belguim, Canada, Penmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxeburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United States, and the United Kingdom. The United states and Canada and several western European nations to provide collective secuirty. It happned in April 4th of 1949. They wanted to bring peace but in a military form. T protect the independant member states agree to mutual defense. -
Communists take over China
When Mao and the Communists took over China in 1949, after decades of civil war and Japanese occupation, the country was in terrible shape. Roads, railways, farms and factories where in a shocking state of disrepair and treasury was bankrupt after its entire gold reserves were taken away to Taiwan by the Nationalists. -
Korean War
North Korea and South Korea war. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. It happened in 1950. Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed. -
Revolt in Hungary
A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. A spontaneous national uprising that began 12 days before in Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union inaugurates the space age with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for satellite was launched at 10:29 p.m. -
The Great Leap Forward
The communist party of china under the leadership of Zendong. They tried to transform China into a society capable of competing with other western industrialized nations, within a snart period of time. It began during the period of the second five year plan in 1958. It happened in China. It was intended to modterrize the Chinas communist. The campain was led by Mao and collectiveion but failed by poor planning. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. They engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff. In a TV address on October 22, 1962. Soviet Union leader offered to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Cultural Revolution
In 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. -
Apollo program
Apollo was the NASA program that resulted in American astronauts' making a total of 11 spaceflights and walking on the moon. The first four flights tested the equipment used in the Apollo Program. Six of the other seven flights landed on the moon. The first Apollo flight happened in 1968. The first moon landing took place in 1969. The last moon landing was in 1972. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
Approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. It happened on the night of August 20,1968. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal.
