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Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/lyndon-b-johnson -
Richard Nixson
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/richardnixon -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/gerald-r-ford -
John F Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/johnfkennedy -
George Bush(senior)
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. http://www.biography.com/people/george-hw-bush-38066 -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-carter-9240013 -
China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil war took place over a long period of time between 1927 and 1950. The war was interrupted when Japan invaded China in 1936 and by World War II. The war was fought between the nationalist government of China, also called the Kuomintang (KMT), and the Communist Party of China (CPC). www.ducksters.com/history/cold_war/chinese_civil_war.php -
Francis Gary Powers
Francis Gary Powers – often referred to as simply Gary Powers – was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. https://history.state.gov/milestones/.../u2-incident -
When did Gorbachev come to power
Mikhail Gorbachev, in full Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (born March 2, 1931, Privolye, Stavropol kray, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet official, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1985 to 1991 and president of the Soviet Union in 1990–91. www.britannica.com/biography/Mikhail-Gorbachev -
When did WW11 end?
World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8 May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day – Victory in Europe celebrates the end of the Second World War on 8 May 1945. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 www.un.org/en/sections/what-we-do/ -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Iron Curtain speech. Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address of 5 March 1946, at Westminster College, used the term "iron curtain" in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe: The Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College. www.history.com/this-day.../churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speec... -
Truman Doctrine
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. https://history.state.gov/.../1945.../truman-doctrine -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-airlif -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War ... www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/marshall-plan -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 www.nato.int/nato-welcome/ -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. www.history.com/this-day-in.../soviets-explode-atomic-bomb -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea www.history.com/topics/korean-war -
H-Bomb
A thermonuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon that uses the energy from a primary nuclear ... It is colloquially referred to as a hydrogen bomb or H-bomb because it employs fusion of isotopes of hydrogen www.cnn.com/2016/01/06/asia/hydrogen-bomb-why-it-matters/ -
Stalin's death
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joseph-stalin-dies -
End of the Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea www.history.com/topics/korean-war -
MAD plan
Mutual assured destruction, or MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy and national security ... Although the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, the MAD doctrine ..... U.S. nuclear weapons plans specifically targeted the populations of Beijing, alphahistory.com/coldwar/cold-war-glossary/ -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953.../seato -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-warsaw-pact-is-formed -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine, (Jan. 5, 1957), in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. www.britannica.com/event/Eisenhower-Doctrine -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. history.nasa.gov/sputnik/ -
When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing off power to his younger brother Raúl in 2008. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fidel-castro -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion -
Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane's discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba. www.cubanmissilecrisis.org/background/ -
When was JFK shot and killed
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963 www.history.com/this-day-in.../john-f-kennedy-assassinated -
NASA's first moon landing
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong ... V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16, Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html -
SALT- First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
On this day in History, SALT agreements signed on May 27, 1972. ... President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. ... First, they limited the number of antiballistic missile (ABM) sites each country could have to two www.history.com/this-day-in-history/salt-agreements-signed -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. www.history.com/this-day-in.../soviet-tanks-roll-into-afghanistan -
Ronald Raegan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. www.biography.com/people/ronald-reagan-9453198 -
Miracle on Ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. www.orda.org/miracle/ -
U.S boycott of the summer olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott in Los Angeles. www.nytimes.com/packages/html/.../01.20.html -
STAR WARS- strategic defense initiative
On March 23, 1983, President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. www.atomicarchive.com › History › Cold War: A Brief History -
When did Soviets leave Afghanistan
Then, from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan. http://www.britannica.com/event/Soviet-invasion-of-Afghanistan -
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the centre of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") located to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. http://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident -
Berlin Wall falls
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. www.biography.com/people/dwight-d-eisenhower-9285482 -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Collapse of the Soviet Union. After his inauguration in January 1989, George H.W. Bush did not automatically follow the policy of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, in dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 www.history.com/topics/boris-yeltsin
