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The Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to fiance the econmic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan sucessfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of 'restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future their own counties and of Europe as a whole.' the plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commenecement speech at Harvard University. -
Berlin Airlift
The ruissians- who wanted berlin closed all highways, railroads and canals from Berlin. They believed it would be impossible for the people who lived there to get food or supplies and would drive Britain, France, and the U.S out of the city for good. Instead of retreating from West Berlin, the U.S and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This known as the "Berlin Airlift," lasted fir more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin -
The Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was firsr annouced to Congress by President Harry. S. Truman on March 12,1977 and futher developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threaths to Greece and Turkey. -
Soviet Union get the atomic bomb
Soviet Union exploaded its first bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
Communist Revolution of China
The Chinese Comminist Revolution or the 1949 Revolution was the culmination of the chinese Communist party's drive to power since its founding in 1921 and the second part of the Chinese Civil War. Mao Zedong declared the creation of the people's Republic of china. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the south, and china fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Execution of The rosebergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S atomic secrets to the sovients, are executed at Sing SIng Prison in Ossinging. New York. Both refused to admit any wrongdoing and their deaths, by the electric chair. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S citzens ro be convicted and executed for espoinage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day. -
Army- Mccarthy Hearning
McCarthy had turned in his investigations to army security, but the army in turn charged him with using imporper influence to win prefertial treatment for a foremer staff member, Pvt. G. David Schine. When the senator tried to emphasize army lawyer Joseph Welch's communist ties, Welch delivered his famous "Have you no sense of decency?" rebuke. Although McCarthy was acquitted, his popular support waned and his plitical career was soon over. -
Warsaw Pact
The soviet Union and seven of its European satelites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutal defense organization that put the soviet in command of the armed forces of the member states. A collective defense treaty states in central and Eastern Europe in exsitence during the Cold War. -
The day America was rocked
Elvis day butes on the Ed sovient show. -
Launch of Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first articial Earth satelite. The soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low earth orbit on October 4, 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. Russia wins world's space race. -
The Kitchen Debate
During the grand opeing ceremony of the American Nationaal Exhibition in Moscow, Vice president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the fair. The so-called "Kitchen debate" became one of the most famous episodes of the cold war. -
U-2 Incident
An internation diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the union of soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured ots pilot, Francis Gary power(1929-77). Confronted with the evidence of his nations espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was forced to admit to the soviets that the U.S central intelligence Agency (CIA) had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Building the Berlin Wall
Two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities began building a wall- The Berlin Wall- to permanetly close off access to the west. For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War- a literal "Iron Curtain" dividing Europe. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Durning the Curban 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 the closest we've been to nuclear war. -
SALT Treaty
Nixon and Soviey General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and interim SALT agreement, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Miracle on Ice
Is the name in American popular culuture for medal-round men's Ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olypics at lake Placid, New York, on friday, Febuary 22. The united states national team, made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks, defeated the sovient Union national team, which has won the gold. -
Falls of the Berlin Wall
The offical purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western "fascits" from enetering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of steeminh mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until the head of East German communist Party annouced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, crowds swarmed the wall and took it down.
