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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the US aid to all European nations that were in need, and it was made to rebuild Europe. This plan was singificant because it was aimed to help European countries politically and economically so that they would not submit to the power of the Communist governments that were around them. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the president declaring that the United States would support any people in the world who were resisting takeover by "armed mitionaries" or "outside pressure" This was important to the Cold War because it was declared more specifically on the USSR, and Stalin was going to allow oen elections in any country that as occupied by Nazis during World War II, to the US government this meant that ANY person could go for election. -
Creation of NATO
NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The organization cosisted of Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States and formed a sort of backbone of allies against the USSR. -
Korean War
The Korean War when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parrallel. By July American soldiers had entered on behalf of South Korea. Officials said it was a war against international communism itself. This is significant because it was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Creation of the Warsaw Pact
The creation of the Warsaw PAct was in direct response to the creation of NATO, the leaders of the European nations were afraid that West Germany would someday raise to power again. -
Vietnam War
The war began in 1954 after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam. This is significant because it was still continued throughout the Cold War. -
Nikita Khrushchev visits the USA
Nakita Khrushchev came into power of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin died in 1953. He that he sought “peaceful coexistence” with the United States. This is important he was visiting during the Cold War and was one of the first Soviet Leaders to visit the United Sates. -
Bay of Pigs Invaion
This was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by a paramilitary group. This is important because by the end the US was entered into the Cold War with the Soviet Union -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. This is important because it was a symbol of the eduring and suffering the people had to go through during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 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. This is significant becaus eit showed the struggle and hatred between the US and Soviet Union. -
US sends a man to the moon
The Space Race had its origins in the missile-based arms race that occurred just after the end of the World War II. This is significant because the US and Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War and were competeing to be the first to send a man to the moon. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
Two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II. -
Intermediate Range Nuclear Force Treaty (INF Treaty)
Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. The treaty is formally titled The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. Eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km (300-3,400 miles). -
German Reunification/Fall of Berlin Wall
Process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin reunited into one city. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity celebrated on 3 October. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that the Soviet Union president had passed.
