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Stalin
He led the Soviets during WWI and the start of the Cold War.
HS: All the new leaders either agree with his ideas and use then or completely disagree and use them as what not to do. -
Iron Curtain
These were the communist countries controlled by Russia.
HS:The kept Europe divided and communism kept spreading. -
United Nations
This was nations that joined together to protect each other if there ever is a crisis.
HS: The UN was used to try to destroy communism. -
Truman Doctrine
This was a deal that said we would interfere if anything happened n the Mediterrainen.
HS: It showed the US was not scared to stand up to communism. -
Marshall Plan
This was designed to help Europe after WWI.
HS: This strengthened and brought countries together. -
European Economic Cooperation
This was a program designed to help rebuild Europe's economy.
HS: This brought all the Europeans closer to each other. -
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Berlin Airlift
A response to the Berlin Blockade where they sent supples to the people in West Berlin.
HS: This was the first big international conflict of the Cold War. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO) This was a bunch of different nations who came together and helped each other in times of crisis.
HS: This stopped the spread of communism and made the western countries stronger. -
Peoples Republic of China
This was a communist country in China.
HS: This helped Communism start the domino effect. -
Ho Chi Minh
He was the leader of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
HS: He kept Communism going in his area. -
Explosion of the first hydrogen bomb
This was the first time a hydrogen bomb was ever used and it was much more destructive than the nuclear bomb.
HS: This showed how powerful and destructive bombs can be. -
Khrushchev
He was the premier of Russia during the Cold War.
HS: He fixed what Stalin ruined. -
Geneva Accords
This was a meeting to try and make peace in Vietnam and in all of Indochina.
HS: They were trying to stop the domino effect of Communism. -
KGB
This was the Russian version of the CIA .
HS: It dealt with Russia's security and spy organization. -
Warsaw Pact
This was a bunch of communist countries joined togeter.
HS: It made the other countries harder to separate from the Soviets. -
Suez Canal/Nasser
This was a conflict between Egypt and other united countries.
HS: It resulted in that part of the country not having a good realtonship with with the Western countries. -
Sputnik
This was the first thing sent into space to orbit the earth.
HS: This was the first thing we ever sent into space and we discovered new things about space. -
Berlin Wall is erected
The wall was built to divide West and East Berlin.
HS:This separated the communism and democracy in the country. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. got made becasue they found out that the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba.
HS: This showed that the Soviet Union would do anything they could to attack the United States. -
Korean War
This was the war between North Korea and South Korea.
HS: This was communism vs democracies and had a big impact on the domino effect. -
Brezhnev
Brezhnev was the leader of the Central Commitee of the Soviet Union during most of the Cold War.
HS: He focused a lot on the military and made the Soviet Union a military power. He also tried to gain peace while in power. -
Tet Offensive
This was an attack by the Viet Cong against South Korea.
HS: This showed that the communist forces were strong. -
Helsinki Accords
This was a conference that was to finalize the EEC.
HS: It was meant to ease tensions. -
Iranian hostage crisis
People who supported the revolution in Iran attacked the embassy.
HS: This was the start of a bad relationship between the countries. -
Russian invasion of Afghanistan
This was the Soviets vs the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
HS: This brought on more tension in the Cold War. -
Moscow Olympics
This was the summer olympic event that took place in Moscow, Russia.
HS: America and other countries boycotted it. -
Los Angeles Olympics
This was the Olympic event in Los Angeles
HS: Communist countries boycotted. -
End of the USSR
The economy was failing so the leader changed things which casued a revolution.
HS: This was the beginning of the end of the Cold War. -
Chernobyl
A nuclear reactor exploded and made the area around it highly radioactive.
HS:The event showed that nuclear things are very powerful. It showed that we need safety reforms. -
Perestroika and Glasnot
This was a political platform that Gorbachev used.
HS: It affected the politcal system for many more years. -
Tiananmen Sqaure
Many protests against the government were held here.
HS: It shows that things were so bad that protests were breaking out. -
Berlin Wall is torn down
This was when the wall was destroyed.
HS: It reprresented the end of communism. -
Gorbachev
He was president of Russia and made good changes.
HS: He helped end the war by talking to the U.S. -
Lech Walesa and the Solidarity Movement in Poland
He was the second president of Poland.
HS: Poland became one of the first nations to become non-communist in the Warsaw Pact are. -
Yeltsin
He was a president of Russia.
HS: He tried to recover Russia's economy. -
Putin
He is the current president of Russia.
HS: He fixed Russia and made it table again.
