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Buffer States of the USSR
Poland and other states between the Soviet Union and Germany has been described as Buffer States because of they both were non-communist states before WWII. #ContainmentTheory -
Atomic Bomb
The atomic bombs were first used by Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of WW2. The first bombs were dropped on Japan, standing to date as the only nucleur bombs used in combat. #Brinkmanship -
U.S. aid to Greece
In May, 1947, the U.S. gave money to Turkey and Greece for recovery to keep from becoming Communist. #ContainmentTheory -
U.S. aid to Turkey
In May, 1947, the U.S. gave money to Turkey and Greece for recovery to keep from becoming Communist. #ContainmentTheory -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that was made to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. #Deterrence -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviets in order to rebuild and provide in Eastern Europe that were aligned to the Soviet Union. #Detente -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, which was known as the European Recovery Program, was an aid from America to Western Europe. The U.S. gave over 13 billion in economic assistance to rebuild WWII. Detente -
NATO Established
The NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was a military alliance between many European and North American countries based on a treaty that was signed 4/4/1949. Detente -
USSR Gets Atomic Bomb
The USSR exploded their first atomic bomb on August 29, 2949. The U.S. were not expecting the USSR to gather this knowledge so suddenly. #brinkmanship -
Communist win China
China went through a revolution, which resulted in a civil war between the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-Shek and the Communists led by Mao Zedong, and invasion by the Japanese. brinkmanship -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was one of the first international crises of the Cold War. #brinkmanship -
Korean War
The Korean War was between North and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea and there was a series of battles along the border. #brinkmanship -
Coup in Iran
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état was the overthrow of the prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh because he favored the strengthening the monarchial rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. ContainmentTheory -
Coup in Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup was a covert operation carried out by the U.S.'s C.I.A. to install the first military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas. It is the first in a series of U.S. backed authorian rulers. #DominoTheory -
Communist Angola
The People's Republic of Angola covers the period of Angolan history as a self-declared socialist state established in 1975, known as Communist Angola. #DominoTheory -
Warsaw Pact Formed
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty signed between the Soviet Union and some Soviet States in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. #Deterrence -
Suez Canal Crisis
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company which had owned and operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869. DominoTheory -
Hungary (Rebellion)
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide rebellion against the communist government of the Hungarian Government. Brinksmanship -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the world's first Earth satellite launched by the USSR. Deterrence -
Cuba (Missile Crisis)
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. MAD -
China explodes atomic bomb
October 16, 1964, China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb. Brinkmanship -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
The Vietnam War was a war that started in Vietnam that was fought between North and South Vietnam. Detterrence -
Coup in Chile
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a watershed event in both the history of Chile and the Cold War. MAD -
End of troops in Vietnam
By the end of the war, 52,220 Americans were killed, 15,000 wounded, and 21,000 permentaly disabled.
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Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
The Revolution marked a significant period in Nicaraguan history and revealed the country as one of the major proxy war battlegrounds of the Cold War with the events in the country rising to international attention. DominoTheory -
War in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. MAD -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against a growing insurgency -
Evil Empire Speech
The Evil Empire Speech was Reagan's first recorded use of phrase "evil empire" to the Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Flordia. -
Star Wars (S.D.I.)
S.D.I., or Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense system created by the U.S.A. to protect them from nuclear weapons. Brinkmanship -
Iran Contra Affair
The Iran Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States that hoped to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Deterrence -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was guarded concrete wall that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The wall fell in 1989. ContainmentTheory -
Fall of the USSR
The USSR hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. The USSR was disabled. Detente
