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Russian Communist Revolution
The Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers soviets overthrew the provisional government in Petrograd. This relates to the Cold War because these parties later created Soviet Union. -
League of Nations
The worlds first international peace keeping body. The League of Nations proved ineffective when it couldn't prevent World War 2. It was later replaced by the U.N. -
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty between central and allied powers at the end of WWII. Main part was Germany has to accept full responsibility for the war. It was rough on Germany's economy and put them in a depression. This made it easy for the Soviet Union to take over during the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
The leaders of the 3 super power countries met to decide what would become of Germany after the war. Stalin would make a promise here that he would later break and raise tensions during the Cold War. -
United Nations
Used to replace League of Nations because of its problems. The UN's major goal is to keep peace. It includes 193 nations/countries/states. This relates to Cold War because some problems were resolved and problems were solved. -
NurembergTrails
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. This relates to the Cold War because the Soviets wanted to punish the Germans harshly for causing WWII but the US knew that if we punished them to bad that the same thing will happen over again. This cause tension. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly was created to keep peace among the nations. When the Soviet Union joined the security council, they would veto all things supported by the U.S. It then became a place where all of the problems in the world could be disscused -
Iron Curtain Speech
This is a speech by Winston Churchill which he titled "The Sinews of Peace," that changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East. This was a post - WWII speech that describing the "Iron Curtain" which symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, it is an international control of atomic weapons. The failure of the plan to gain acceptance resulted in a dangerous nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman foreign policy to contain Communism. This relates to the cold war because this is what the cold war was based on, stopping communism. -
Marshall Plan
A relief plan created by the U.S. to stimulate the economy in Europe and the United States. This plan enlarged the differences between western and eastern Europe because only the west benefitted. The Soviets would not allow any of its puppet governments to accept money from the Marshall plan. -
Berlin Airlift
This was Stalin's attempt to get democracy out of East Germany by blockading West Berlin. The Americans began to airlift essentials to them and embarresed the Soviets. -
NATO is created
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a group of countries who create alliances between them. The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 was crucial for NATO as it raised the apparent threat of all Communist countries working together, and forced the alliance to develop concrete military plans. One of its immediate results was the creation of the Warsaw Pact, which was signed on 14 May 1955 which stated the two opposing sides of the Cold War. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese communist parites drive to power since its foundings in 1921. A Civil War in China breaks out between the Nationalist and communists of China. The Soviets give aid to the communist party while the US gives aid to the nationalist party. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph McCarthy gave this speech warning of communism in America. He gave specific names of people working within the State Department and listed their crimes. Those individuals lost their jobs. McCarthy says, "Five years after a world war has been won, men's hearts should anticipate a long peace, and men's minds should be free from the heavy weight that comes with war. But this is not such a period -- for this is a time of the Cold War." -
Nuclear Deterrent
When a country has nuclear weapons, you don't want to attack them because they may use them. This was why there was no fighting in the Cold War. -
Korean War
North Korea allied with the Soviets and China attack South Korea. That marks the beginning of the war. South Korea received assistance from the UN and US. This has to do with the Cold War because when the reason the north attacked was to spread communism. -
Warsaw Pact
A pact or alliance between 7 satellite governments and the Soviet Union. Soviets did this, in response to western Germany integrating in NATO, to keep control over eastern Europe. This helped communist keep control of countries of eastern Europe. -
US sent troops to Vietnam
Fought between North Korea, Allies with Soviets and China, against South Korea, allies with US. This war relates to the Cold War because the US attempted to stop the spread of communism from the north. -
The Sputnik Launch
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched by the Soviets; Sputnik had a diameter of 22 inches and weighed 184 pounds and circled Earth once every hour and 36 minutes. Soviets had then acheived the first satellite to succesfully circle earth. The US raced to build space crafts and fufilling the ongoing competitions between the US and the Soviets during the Cold War to see who was the best of the best. -
Bay of Pigs Invaison
President John F. Kennedy gave the green light on a plan for Cuban exiles to takeover the communist government in control, The mission was a failure and made the United States look weak in the eyes of their Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created to keep the east Germans from fleaing to west Germany. The Berlin Wall soon became a symbole of the Cold War. -
Building of Berlin Wall
A wall built by East Germany to divide East and West Germany. This wall essential separated the Soviets from the allies during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis is when the US discovers Soviet Missiles on the island of Cuba only 90 miles off of US soil pointed directly at the United States. JFK knew they couldn't use force to remove the missiles because it would surely start a nuclear war. He decides to blockade Cuba from letting any other missiles into the island, and after 13 days of a military and politcal standoff the Soviets gave in and removed the missiles from Cuba. -
The Non-Proliferation Agreement
It is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. This related to the Cold War because it kept the US and Soviets from using nuclear force on each other during the tense times of the war. -
Salt I/II
They were Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between US and the Soviet Union. SALT I resulted in Anti ballistic missile treaty. This prevented use of Nuclear arms in he Cold War. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first space aircraft landing on the moon that was acheived by the US. It relates to the Cold War because the space race is just like the arms race of the Cold War. The US and the Soviets both rushed the creation of new technology for space exploration just as we did for weapons. -
Kent State Shootings
The shooting occurred at Kent State University in the US city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. The guardsmen killing four students and wounding nine others. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance. This relates to the Cold War because the protest were about the Vietnam War; the Vietnam war only started because the US and Soviets used client states to fight each other. -
Margret Thatcher
British Prime Minister during Cold War. She was involved with many Cold War affairs including invasion of Afghanistan. -
Fall of Saigon
Vietcong final attack on the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon. They over threw Saigon and the U.S. troops withdraw from Vietnam. This relates to the Cold War because this was an attempt t stop the spread of communism. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was a dictator that overthrew Cuban government with a revolution. He soon became close allies with Soviet Union. This was important to the Cold War because we had a Soviet Ally close to the U.S., specifically within missile range. -
Pope John Paul II
Pope John was against communism. He instigated a revolution in Poland against the Soviets and was openly against the Soviet Union. He played a large roll in the demise of the communism at the end of the Cold War. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary who was the leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. After Mao Zedong's death, Deng led his country through far-reaching market economic reforms. He nonetheless was considered the "paramount leader" of the People's Republic of China from December 1978 to 1992. He relates to the Cold War because he was leading Chinese communists that were backed by the soviets during the Cold War. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border. It was a watershed event of the Cold War, marking the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern Bloc a strategic decision met by nearly worldwide condemnation -
MAD
(Mutual Assured Destruction) It was based on a strategy that if both sides use weapons of mass destruction both sides would be destroyed. Therefore the only way to avoide utter destruction of both sides resulted in MAD. -
Fall of Berlin Walll
After 28 years of the Berlin Wall keeping Eastern Germans out of west German territory the wall was torn down. This was a very large step between the United States and the Soviet Union coming to peaceful terms. -
Lech Walsea
Was polish president, and earned the Nobel Peace Prize. He lead communist Poland's first independent trade union. -
START I
(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) Was created to limit the number of nuclear weapons a nation could keep in its arsenal. The Soviet Union fell apart months later but the countries that hold its former territory were also held to this. This was a huge step in ending the Cold War. -
START II
(Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) This treaty banned the use of MIRV's from the arsenals of the United States and Russia.
