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Russian Communist Revolution
There were two Russian Revolutions in 1917. The February Revolution ousted the Czar, but was not a communist revolution. The October Revolution was orchestrated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks and ousted the Provisional Government set up after the February Revolution. The Bolshevik changed their name to Communists. -
Treaty of Versailles
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Leage of Nations
Failed attempt to stop another World War by getting togther to solve world problems. USA didn't join which ultimatly lead to its downfall. -
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another conflict. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly of the United Nations. Composed of all United Nations member states. The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly of the United Nations. Composed of all United Nations member states. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. -
Nuremberg Trials
After the war, some of those responsible for crimes committed during the Holocaust were brought to trial. Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945. Judges from the Allied powers, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. -
Iron Curtain speech
In the speech, Churchill said that behind an "Iron Curtain" were all the capitals of central and Eastern Europe, and that they were under the control of Moscow. Churchill blamed USSR for this problem. -
M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction
U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. Causing Destruction on both sides. -
Nuclear Deterrent
An enemy will not using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a conseqsence -
Baruch Plan
The plan proposed to: 1.extend between all countries the exchange of basic scientific information for peaceful ends;
2.implement control of nuclear power to the extent necessary to ensure its use only for peaceful purposes;
3.eliminate from national armaments atomic weapons and all other major weapons adaptable to mass destruction; and
4.establish effective safeguards by way of inspection and other means to protect complying States against the hazards of violations and evasions -
Truman Doctrine
USA will give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Marshall Plan
The U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the Second World War to aide European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in 1948 that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes. -
NATO created
an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of defence aginst the soviet union -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The overthrow of the Nationalist regime and the establishment of the People's Republic of China by the Chinese Communist Party. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
In February of 1950, 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, even though McCarthy was never able to give any further evidence to prove their guilt. -
Korean War
A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the 1950's between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's North Korea . The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
This was the first commitment of American combat troops in South Vietnam and there was considerable reaction around the world to the new stage of U.S. involvement in the war. Predictably, both communist China and the Soviet Union threatened to intervene if the United States continued to apply its military might on behalf of the South Vietnamese. -
Sputnik launched
A of a series of Soviet satellites sent into Earth orbit, especially the first, launched October 4, 1957. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. An armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. A huge imberasment for the United States -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a communist government their. Stopped all trade with the United States. -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Cubian Missile Crisis
An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union. When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the US demands a week later. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon. It was in the space race aginst USSR. -
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S.A.L.T. I (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)
SALT I is the common name for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, also known as the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings 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 on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
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S.A.L.T. II (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks)
SALT II was a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators from 1972 to 1979 which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. It was a continuation of the SALT I talks and was led by representatives from both countries. SALT II was the first nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategic forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War. -
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Pope John Paul II
The pope was a key source of information and social movement for people worldwide. He criticized much of the Communist world and most certainly helped move people towards the elimination of communism. -
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Margaret Thatcher
Margraret Thatcher was the longest running British PM. Thatcher's first crisis came with the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She condemned the invasion, said it showed the bankruptcy of a détente policy, and helped convince some British athletes to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics. She gave weak support to American President Jimmy Carter who tried to punish the USSR with economic sanctions. Britain's economic situation was precarious, and most of NATO was reluctant to cut trade ties.[148] -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups. War in Afghanistan began on 27 April 1978, when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took power in a military coup. The decade-long war resulted in the death of 850,000–1.5 million civilians. -
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Deng Xiaoping
Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He 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 was very friendly with the Soviet Union just like Zedong. -
Ronald Reagan visits Berlin
President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and urges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. To this day, the Berlin Wall remains one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. -
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Lech Walesa
a Polish politician, trade-union organizer and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. -
S.T.A.R.T. I (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. The treaty was signed on 31 July 1991 and entered into force on 5 December 1994. The treaty barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 ICBMs, inter-continental ballistic missiles, and bombers. -
S.T.A.R.T. II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and Russia on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. It was signed by United States President George H. W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin on 3 January 1993, banning the use of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles on intercontinental ballistic missiles
