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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
Winston Churchill traveled with Harry Truman to make a speech at Westminster College. This speech changed the way the Communist East viewed the democratic West. Many people beleive that this speech was the start of the cold war. rating: this is a 5 because this changed the was each side viewed the other. -
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Truman Doctrine Established
The U.S. was going to support Greece and Turkey with military aid and economic to prevent from falling into the soviet sphere. Truman said this was going to support free people hwo are resisting sttempted rating: this is a 3 because the U.S is helping both Greece and Turkey from getting involved with the soviet Union. -
Marshall plan is announced
America gave economic support to help rebuild Europe after the end of WWII. This made all the poor countries like the U.S better than the Soviet Union. the goal was to devastated religion, remover trade barriers, modernize industy, and make Europe prosperous again. rating: this is a 4 because this made the Soviets mad and make the U.S look good. -
Berlin Blockade begins
the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway,road, and canal access to the sector of Berlin under allied control. this was one of the first major international crises of the cold war. the U.S then came in and gave Berlin assistance. rating: This is a 5 because there was no war but it did cause tension between the U.S and the Soviet Union. -
NATO ratified
the NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO was the main U.S.-led military alliance against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. this treaty was a mutual defense pact that was to contain possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe. rating:this is a 3 becuse the U.S was protecting Western Europe. -
Mao Zedong, a communist,takes control of China
Mao Zedong was a chinese communist revolutionary, politican and a socio-political theorist. Once china became a communist country the U.S feared that it would spread since China is a huge counrty. rating:this is a 5 because this made U.S very scared that commuism was going to spread fast. -
Korea war begins
korea wanted to unite as one as a communist county. the Soviet Union was very supported of this but made the U.S mad. This made Truman send out troop on June 30 1950. rating: this is a 6 because the U.S wasnt fighting with the Soviets but the Soviets were supporting Korea. -
senotor joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
Joe McCarthy begin investigating communist parties in the U.S. McCarthy made a list of people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party. he would use the newspapaer and magazines to get his word out. Truman started to get annoyed with his actions so Truman got rid of him. rating: this is a 2 because it has no tension between the soviets and the U.S -
Rosenberg executions
Julius Rosenberg was born in the oviet Union and was a member of the Communist Party. The Rosenbergs were accused of giving the Soviet Union information about the atomic bombs. Davis Greenglass supplied the imformation to them but only served 10 years of his 15 year sentence. The Rosenbergs faced the death penality on June 19, 1953. rating: this is a 6 because now the Soveit Union knwo about the U.S atomic bombs. -
Warsaw Pact formed
This was a treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. this was a Soviet military reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955. The Soviet Union eslablished it and it was signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. rating: this is a 6 because the Soviet Union is getting allies and is preparing for war with the U.S -
Soviet invasion of Hungary
the Soviets were mad because Hugary was willing to willdraw the use of the soviet military. the Soviets then invaded Hungary along the Pest side of the Danube in two thrusts. Over 2,500 Hungarians and 722 Soviet troops had been killed after this invasion. -
Spuntnik launched into orbit
the Soviet Union launched the first every spy satilite. They could see everything going on in the U.S. and this was a huge disadvantage for the U.S. rating: this is a 6 because this spy satilite helped the Soviet Union a ton and they know everything about the U.S. -
Cuba taken Over by Fidel
Fidel Castro took control of Cuba by force and remained its dictatorial leader for nearly five decades. As the leader of the only communits country in the western Hemisphere. His focus was of international constroversy. Rating: this is a 4 because the U.S did not want communism to spread. -
Soviet Union reveals the U.S.Spy plan was shot down over Soviet territory
It had to do with the U-2 incodent shoty down by a soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1,1960. CIA pilot Fancis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep in Russia. rating: this is a 5 because it agrivated the Soviet Union and embarassed the U.S. Rating: -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was intened to provoke popularity for an upsring against Fidel Castro, who had overthrown American-backed dictator Fulgencio Batistia. Insteadit gave castro military victory. rating: this is a 6 because it was an invasion and was a failure for the U.S and made them look bad. -
Construction of the Berlin Wall
The commusnist government of East germany began building the Berlin wall to divide East and West Berlin. At first, the residents of Berlin were in shock, but as the wall took shape it cemented the reality of the division. It would stand as an imposing barrier to freedom for the next 28 years. Rating: 6 because it caused tenstion on both sides and it had split up Europe -
U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War
There was strong anti-Japanese movement that was led by Ho Chi Minh who liked the Communist ideas. The US began to worry about the communists dominating all south east Asia. So South Vietnam signed a miltary and economic aid treaty with the U.S. leading to arrival of the U.S. to support troops and formation of the Military Assistance Command.American influence stopped national elections being held in the south because they were afraid that the Communists would win.
Rating: 5 made US scared -
Cuban Missle Crisis
President Kennedy spoke on live teleivision about the crisis,he told the Americans about the presence of the missiles. He had explained his decsions to enact a naval blockade around Cuba. The leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union had a tense 13 day political and military standoff. Rating: 9 because missiles were about to be used and could have ruind to the world Rating:10 -
SALT I signed
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon, had a meeting in Moscow. They had signed a strategic Arms Limination Talks (SALTS). At the time these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control the nuclear weapons. Rating: 2 because they were setteling things down -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet troops had wished to expand their influence to Asia. They also wanted to keep the Communist government that had been established during the 1970s. It had been collapsing because of its lack of support other than in the military. The Soviets wanted to protect their interests in Afghanistan from Iran and western nations. Rating: 5 because the Soviets wanted to spread communism -
President Ronald Reagan Proposes Strategic Deffense initiative
The SDI was a defense system with the main purposeto prevent nuclear attacks on the U.S. by the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide on television. Because parts of the defensive system that Reagan supported would be based in space, it was known as “Star Wars". after the space weaponry of a popular movie of the same name.
Rating:6 because it was a threat to the Soviet Union andit was unrealistic Rating: 7 bevause it was a threat to the whole world -
Regan and Soviet President..
The two leaders had tentavilely agreed to sweeping the reductions in the nuclear aresenlalsbut deadlock on the crucial issue. The issue was that they were restricting the U.S. spaced based missile defense program was widely known as "starWars" Rating:1 because things got less tense and nagotations were almost completed -
The Berlin Wall Falls
The Berlin had been breeched after nearly three decades keeping east and west Berliners apart. At midnight East Germany's communist rulers gave permission for gated along the Berlin Wall to be opened after hundreds of people converging the crossing points. Rating: 2 it was sign of the Cold War ending -
End Of the Soviet Union, Cold War Ends
the Soviet Union disintegrated took almost everyone by a huge surprise. The system appeared impervious to fundamental change during the years Leonid Brezhnev headed the Politburo (1964-82). And even the most disaffected nationalities in the Soviet Union. The Presidents had signed documents suddenly to end the Cold War.
Rating: 1 because the cold war came to an end
