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The suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. Constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869, it was officially opened on November 17, 1869. -
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The Red Scare
The First Red Scare occurred immediately after World War I.It revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism. The Second Red Scare occurred immediately after World War II.It was preoccupied with national or foreign communists infiltrating or subverting U.S. society or the federal government. -
The Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference. Also known as the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference. -
End of WWII
World War II also known as the second world war and lasted 6 years. Before the war related conflicts began earlier. -
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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name of the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
The Creation of the United Nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established after World War II with the aim of preventing another such conflict. The UN had 51 member states. There are now 193. -
The Long Telegraph
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. He pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
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Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin was one of the first major international crosses of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies railway road and canal .access to the sector of Berlin under western control. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was an american initiative to aid western, Europe. The united states gave more than 13 billion in the economic assistance to help rebuild western European economies after the end of WWII. -
The Creation of NATO
The prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
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The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. With the support of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea With the principal support of the United States. -
Duck and Cover
Duck and Cover is a civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. It advised students on what to do in the event of a nuclear explosion. -
The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
he 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
