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Russian Communist Revolution
The events began in Poland in 1917, and continued in Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.The Soviet Union was dissolved by the end of 1991.Communism was abandoned in countries such as Cambodia, Ethiopia, Mongolia, and South Yemen. The collapse of Communism (and of the Soviet Union) led commentators to declare the end of the Cold War. -
League of Nations
An international association to keep peace. In 1934, the Soviet Union was added to the League of Nations. They were seeking help because they feared Hitler in Germany. By the end of the 1930's Stalin would have to change his foreign policy, this would have serious future consiquences. -
Treaty of Versailles
After world war I the conditions in postwar Europe where Germany had the Guilt Clause, armed force reduction, Reparations, Germany lost their territory. The League of Nations was then formed and extra nations were created. This set conditions that led to the raise of Hitler and World War II, and because World War II we ended up in a Cold War with the Soviets. -
MAD
Neither side will attack the other if both sides are guaranteed to be totally destroyed in the conflict. Both sides held nuclear weapons of such number and strength that they were capable of destroying the other side completely and threatened to do so if attacked. This was in place during the Cold War. -
Yalta Conference
The most important wartime meeting. There the 3 leaders pledged tp support the establishment of dividing Germant into 4 zones and government in East Europe representing the will of people through free election. However, Stalin did not intend to keep that promise. -
United Nation (UN)
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War and prevent such conflict during the Cold War. It became a place for communist and non-communist to discuss issues. The two major bodies are the General Assembly and the Security Council. -
Nuremburg Trials
The Nuremburg Trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremburg, Germany to punish members of Nazi Germany. Including Nazi Party Officials and high- ranking military officers. During these trails the Soviet Union and United States were judges and also allies in WWII. They were the two superpowers of the world and the rivalry that formed between them was called the Cold War. -
General Assembly
As the world began recovering from World War II, the first General Assembly of the United Nations met in London. Dealing with the Cold War, they created the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Part of their charge was to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction, including the atomic bomb. They have the power to veto the security council which caused it to become ineffective, making the general assembly become more powerful. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Stalin did not intend to keep his word about the establishment of free governments in Eastern Europe, so Winston Churchill warned of the eastern bloc and the spread of communism through this speech. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was not agreed to by the Soviet Union, and though debate on the matter continued until 1948, it was not seriously advanced later than the end of 1947. The USSR was, at the time of the negotiations, pursuing their own atomic bomb project. With the failure of the plan, both nations embarked on programs of weapons development and testing as part of the overall nuclear arms race of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrone
The doctrine promised to aid and support free people "resisting attempted subjunction" by armed minorities, communism or by outside pressure. -
Marshall Plan
Program of economic aid to all European nations, including communist countries. Stalin refused to let the statellite countries to partake because he thought U.S. was trying to undermind his control. -
Nuclear Deterrent
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union each built a stockpile of nuclear weapons. The United States adopted nuclear deterrence, the credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack. -
Berlin Airlift
Soviets block all roads/railways/cut off electricity power to West Berlin. Stalin wanted to force allies to leave Berlin or stop them from unifying with West Berlin. For 324 days, U,S,vflew cargo planes 2M tons of vital supplies. -
NATO
Made up of European nations plus the U.S., Canada, and Iceland. All nations agreed to become allies and defend each other if attacked. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
In the closing years of World War II, American military and diplomatic representatives in China recognized that civil war was likely to erupt between the Nationalist-controlled government headed by Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong. President Harry Truman sent General George C. Marshall, the architect of victory in the war against Germany and Japan, to China to try to broker a peace agreement—and to determine the intentions of the Soviet Union in Manchuria and NC. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph gave his speech warning of communism in America. This created chaos in America. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and all communist countries in Eastern Europe under Soviet control agreed to defend each other if attacked. -
Sputnik Launched
Under Khrushchev, they launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Four years later put the first human into space. Soviets and AMerica were in a race for the best weapons and technology. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Both Eisenhower and his successor John F. Kennedy supported a CIA plan to aid a dissident militia, the Democratic Revolutionary Front, to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro; the plan resulted in the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
John F. Kennedy's invasion to overthrow Castro because he feared how close communist Cuba was to the United States. It failed, and we looked weak and were embarrassed. -
Sent Troops to Vietnam
U.S. sent 16,000 military men to Vietnam. JFK stated that it is Vietnam's war. U.S. can jelp but they have to win it- Vietnam against the communist. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
To stop population drain a 25-mile baracade across the city was built. It was reinforced with mines, booby traps, and heavy armed soldiers. -
Berlin Wall
An average of 2,000 East Germans were crossing to West
Germany everyday. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962, Khrushchev Spread the Cold War to the Carribbean, having missile's as a threat pointed towards the U.S. -
Apollo 11
The Cold War between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. formed the backdrop of the Apollo program, as the two superpowers jockeyed for preeminence in space. America was in the lead. -
Kent Sate Shooting
Students of Kent State were protesting against Nixon's plan to invade Cambodia. Members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. This could have been a cause for the lost at the Vietnam war, and a loss of Americans and for America during the Cold War. -
SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks was intended to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons held by the east and west during the Cold War. -
Fall of Saigon
The colonial struggle in Vietnam became part of the global Cold War in October 1949 when a victorious Chinese communist army arrived on Vietnam's northern border. In 1950, China, the Soviet Union and other communist nations recognized the DRV while the United States and other non-communist states recognized the Bảo Đại government. -
Pope John Paul II
President Reagan and the pope shared strong convictions about communism. The pope lead a campaign for freedom. During his rule, he helped people conquer their fear and served as a witness to hope, and who helped topple the empire of lies. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping, as a chief architect of China's national strategy in the immediate post-Mao era, played a dominant role in China's decision to go to war. Deng Xiaoping's reascendance to the top leadership at the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, -
SALT II
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II was reestablished to solve left over issues from SALT I. -
Margaret Thatcher
When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, many in the West had come to believe that the Cold War could not and should not be won. By the time she left office, the Berlin Wall had fallen and Eastern Europe was liberated. A year later, the Soviet Union crumbled into the dustbin of history. Democracy and freedom were on the advance. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Part of the Cold War was fought between the Soviet- led Afghanistan forces against multinational insurgant groups called the Mujahideen. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
At midnight East Germany's ruler gave permission for gates along the wall to be opened as a result of a mass protest. East Berlners surged through, cheering and being greeted by West Berlners. Ecstatic crouds began to destroy the cement wall. -
Lech Walesa
He was a Polish politician, trade-union organizer and human-rights activist. He was co-founded Solidarity, 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. He was persecuted by the Communist authorities, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. -
START I
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a treaty between the United States and USSR on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. -
START II
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty was a treaty between the United States of America and Sovirt Union on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. On 11 May 1995, the Treaty was extended indefinitely. More countries have adhered to the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the Treaty's significance.The treaty recognizes five states as nuclear-weapon states: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China (also the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council).
