Events of the cold war

Marshall Plan

Dec 17, 1948

• American program to aid Europe where the us gave support to help rebuild Europe after wwii
• Prevented the spread of communism

Creation of NATO

Dec 17, 1949

United States and 11 other Western nations form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Korean war

Jun 25, 1950

• North Korea’s invasion of South Korea brought on a UN “police action”
• Usa was trying to contain north Koreas army

Vietnam War

Dec 17, 1959

nationalists attempting to unify Vietnam under a communists government

Warsaw Pact

Dec 17, 1959

• Mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of eastern Europe

The Bay of Pigs

Apr 17, 1961

• 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the bay of pigs of the south coast of Cuba
• When Castro came to power in Cuba, the us Gov. was worried and didn’t trust him.
• We used ww2 b-26 bombers and painted them to look like Cuban air force planes

Berlin Wall Goes up

Dec 17, 1961

• Built to keep Germanys citizens from crossing the border

Cuban Missile Crisis

Dec 17, 1962

• Closest the world ever came to a nuclear war
• United States armed forces were very prepared and Soviet commanders in Cuba was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend themselves if invaded

Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba

Dec 17, 1976

• first communist state in the Western Hemisphere
• overthrew the Cuban government
• batista fled Cuba because of war, then Castro came to power

China becomes Communist

Dec 17, 1978

• Mao turned on the Nationalists, the communist army took over and the CCP took power
• Mao announced the peoples republic of china and china officially became communists

German Reunification

Dec 17, 1990

german democratic republic joined the federal republic of germany

Collapse of the Soviet Union

Dec 17, 1991

• Mikhail Gorbachev accomplished it
• democracy over totalitarianism