korean war begins

By queenlerai1

  • joseph stalin

    Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee
    A Georgian by birth, Stalin was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution

  • nato

    headquarters are in belguim and brussel
    28 states are in this
    During most of the Cold War, NATO's watch against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact did not actually lead to direct military action

  • korean war begins

    north korea invaded south korea
    united kingdom and the united states helped south korea while the soviet union helped south korea
    korea was ruled by japan
    korea split up because of government differences

  • the korean war ended

    its an on again off again war
    it still continues til this day just not violently

  • warsaw pact began

    ended july 1 1991
    headquarters are in soviet union and moscow
    Throughout the following 20 years, the seven Warsaw Pact countries outside the USSR each joined NATO

  • space race

    The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability
    The Space Race began on August 2, 1955, when the Soviet Union responded to the US announcement four days earlier of intent to launch artificial satellites for the International Geophysical Year, by declaring they would also launch a satellite "in the near future

  • vietnam war begins

    it was the second of the indochina war
    fought by north vietnam and south vietnam
    The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States

  • john f kennedy was elected president

    born may 29 1917 and served as 35 president
    Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with Communist states
    He was elected subsequently to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 until 1960
    Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963

  • Berlin Wall was built

  • moon landing

    The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959
    The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969.

  • the vietnam war ended

  • soviet invasion of afghanistan

    The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989
    Afghan insurgents began to receive massive amounts of aid and military training in neighboring Pakistan and China
    By the mid-1980s, the Soviet contingent was increased to 108,800 and fighting increased throughout the country, but the military and diplomatic cost of the war to the USSR was high

  • ho chi minh became leader

    Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–55) and president (1945–69)
    He led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward
    established the Communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945
    he still remained as a figurehead after he died

  • gary powers

    an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[1] U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
    The primary mission of the U-2s was overflying Russia.