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World War 2 Ended
Japanese surrender, the allies won. -
United Nations
Intergovernment organization to promote international co -operation. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Stop comminist from growing, Iron curtain is dropping & we need to make the curtain pernement. -
China's Civil war
The war repersent an ideological split between the communists CPC and teh KMT's brand of nationalism starting August 1,1927 to December 22, 1936 and starting back up on March 31,1946 to May 1,1950. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. provides political, military, and economic assistance, foreign Policy. -
Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the United States gave $13 billion in econimic support to help rebuild Western Europe economics after the end of WWII. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the Besieged City, in responsed to the Soviet blockade of land routes in West Berlin. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty org. secure economics/ ensure peace -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
Successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name "First Lighting". -
Korean War
Started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to aid South Korea.China and Soviet Union aided North Korea. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of the United States. Main goal was to keep pressure of SU and reduce federal deficits. -
H-Bomb
United States test first Hydrogen bomb. -
MAD Plan
A U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and SU each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. -
John F. Kennedy
35th president. -
Stalin's death
Leader of Soviet Union since 1924, died of a massive heart attack. -
Fidel Castro Take over Cuba
He failed and was captured and sentenced to Jail for 15 years, but was let out in 1955 and ended up in Mexico. -
End of Korean War
Armistice ends the Korean War. -
SEATO
International organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia treaty.org -
Warsaw Pact
Was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and 7 other Soviet Satellite states in Central an Eastern Europe in existence during the civil war. -
Vietnam War
Was a cold war-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
Francis Gary Powers
American Pilot whose central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union Airspace. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern Country needing help in resisting Communist Aggression. -
Sputnik
Was the first 1st artificial Earth satellite. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba under taken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Berlin Wall
Barrier that divided Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the US and the tSU concerning Soviet Ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
JFK shot and killed
Was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Lyndon Johnson
36th president -
Richard Nixon
37th president -
NASA's first moon landing
Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon. -
SALT-First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
Froze the # of strategic ballistic missile launches @ existing levels and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) launcher only after the sa,e # of older intercontinental ballistics missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers were dismantled. -
Gerald Ford
38th president -
Jimmy Carter
39th president -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
SU invades Afghanistan under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty of 1978. -
Miracle on Ice
The US hockey team faced off against the Soviet Union in the Medal round of Lake Placid Olympics. US won. -
Ronald Reagan
40th president -
STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative
An ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
US boycott of the Summer Olympics
Soviet Union claims they would not participate in the Olympics because of security concerns. -
George Bush Sr.
41st president -
Soviet Leaves Afghanistan
Troops started to leave on May 15, 1988, continued until Feb 2, 1989, and On Feb 15, 1989, announced all its troops had left. -
Tiananmen square
Large City Square in the centre of Beijing, China, located to its North and Separating it from the Forbidden City. -
Berlin Wall falls
The conditions that had caused its construction did not change. -
Gorbachev
President of Soviet Union. -
Boris Yeltsin
1st President of Russia. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
90% of everyone wanted and voted for independence.
