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Russian Communist Revolution
During this event, the Bolsheviks who were led by Vladimir Lenin went to destroy czarist rule in Russia, leading to the Bolsheviks becoming the Communist party in the Soviet Union. This relates to The Cold War, because it is the creation of the Communist party. -
Treaty of Versailles
Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War. This relates to the Cold War, because it's one of the times communism won. -
League of Nations
It was founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. This relates to The Cold War, because during The Cold War it proved how ineffective it was. -
MAD
Mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction is if one nation nuked another nation that nation would nuke them back and it would lead to the end of the world. This relates to The Cold War, because during The Cold War it was the first time mutual assured destruction was a possibility. -
Yalta Conference
The aim of the conference was to shape a post-war peace that represented not just a collective security order but a plan to give self-determination to the liberated peoples of post-Nazi Europe. This relates to The Cold War, because the conference helped the Soviet Union control Eastern Europe, It made the West feel that the USSR was bent on expanding communism. -
United Nations
A global organization that brings together its member states to confront common challenges, manage shared responsibilities and exercise collective action in an enduring quest for a peaceful, inclusive and sustainably developing world. This relates to the Cold War, because it was an example of The East vs The West. They both kept vetoing each other. -
General Assembly
One of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and the only body in which every member of the organization is represented and allowed to vote. This relates to the Cold War because the the Soviet Union was able to form one of the most cohesive blocs. -
Nuremberg Trials
These trials took place in Germany, they were a set of 13 trials held by the Allied forces, consisting of Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, these trials were set against 22 Nazi criminals, 12 of them were sentenced to death, the rest served the most severe punishments. The Nuremberg Trials relate to the Cold War because the trials are regarded as a significant step towards having an international court for future crimes against humanity. -
Iron Curtain speech
Know as one of the starting announcements for the Cold War, the speech was created by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and he discussed how he condemned all Soviet Union policies within Europe. This relates to the Cold War because the speech also created a Iron Curtain, which divided the Communist nations and Democratic nations -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. This relates to The Cold War, because it was a doctrine going against the USSR. -
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 over $13,000,000,000 (nearly $140 billion in current dollar value as of September 2017) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. This relates to The Cold War, because nations controlled by the USSR couldn't accept this aid -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The West then air dropped supplies to west Berlin. This relates to The Cold War, because It was a conflict between the U.S. and USSR. -
NATO created
Due to the rising concern of future communist expansion, the U.S. along with 11 other Western nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).It was made to form a wall against the Soviet union, so if they were to attack any of the nations within the (NATO), all those nations would attack the Soviet Union. This relates to The Cold War, because it helped keep peace between The U.S. and USSR. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese leader Mao Zedong created the people's Republic of China. The leaders of both the Communists and the Nationalists parties, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek, met for a series of talks about post-war government. The foreign policy during the the Cold War went through different stages, and months before the (PRC) was founded, Mao Zedong announced the New china would support the Soviet Union in international affairs. This relates to The Cold War because it created another communist state. -
Nuclear Deterrent
Nukes being used as a threat to stop nations from nuking each other. This relates to The Cold War, because nukes were used as a big threat. -
Joseph McCarthy speech
Joseph's speech was about how he believed there were communist spies hiding within the American government, and due to the tensions between The Soviet Union and the U.S., people believed that there could be communist spies hiding among the U.S population. This relates to the Cold War, because the tensions of the American public was increasing due to them believing the Soviet Union was spying on them. -
Korean War
Known as the first military action of the Cold War, it was a conflict between North and South Korea. The divide between Korea is known as the 38th Parallel. This relates to The Cold War, because it was the first proxy war between the U.S. and USSR -
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. This relates to The Cold War, because it was made in response to The western allies forming together. -
Sputnik launched
The world’s first artificial satellite that was made and successfully launched into space by the Soviet Union, this relates to the Cold War, because this satellite launch marked the beginning of the space race between the U.S and the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The U.S. tried to invade Cuba and take over, but failed. This relates to The Cold War, because it increased tensions between the West and the East. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin. It was thrown up overnight. The Berlin Wall was built to stop this. This relates to The Cold War, because it was a physical division, between The East and The West. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
In December 1961, Castro made clear what most U.S. officials already believed. In a televised address on December 2, Castro declared, “I am a Marxist-Leninist and shall be one until the end of my life.” He went on to state that, “Marxism or scientific socialism has become the revolutionary movement of the working class.” He also noted that communism would be the dominant force in Cuban politics. This relates to The Cold War, because Cuba aligned its self with the USSR. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This conflict was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the U.S. knew the Soviet Union was planting bombs in Cuba, which is only 90 miles away from American territory.This was resolved when the U.S. made an agreement with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that they would not invade Cuba, and secretly they agreed to removing U.S. missiles from Turkey. This relates to The Cold War, because it was a conflict between The U.S. and USSR. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces that 21,000 more U.S. troops are to be sent to Vietnam. He also claimed that it was now known that North Vietnamese regular troops had begun to infiltrate South Vietnam. This relates to The Cold War, because it was a proxy war between the U.S. and USSR. -
The Berlin Wall was actually two walls.
The 27-mile portion of the barrier separating Berlin into east and west consisted of two concrete walls between which was a “death strip” up to 160 yards wide that contained hundreds of watchtowers, miles of anti-vehicle trenches, guard dog runs, floodlights and trip-wire machine guns. This relates to The Cold War, because it shows how badly the Soviets wanted to keep their people away from western influence. -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government written largely by Bernard Baruch to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission during its first meeting in June 1946. The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David E. Lilienthal to draw up a plan. This relates to The Cold War, because it was about the positive use of atomic energy. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. This relates to The Cold War, because it's about not using nukes. -
Apollo 11
This mission was set by John F Kennedy, he wanted to the U.S. to be the first country to send a crewed spacecraft to space, and back to earth. The members of the crew consisted of Commander Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. This relates to the Cold War because it was a competition to see which nation could get a man on the moon first. -
Kent State Shootings
Students were protesting the bombing of Cambodia by the U.S. military forces, they clashed against each other and the Guardsmen at Kent State shot and killed 4 students, this became a focal point of the Vietnam War. This relates to the Cold War because the Vietnam War was a conflict between the Northern and Southern Vietnam ( U.S vs Soviet Union ), this event intensified the Cold War. -
SALT I
Negotiations commenced in Helsinki, Finland, in November 1969. SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two countries. This relates to The Cold War, because it's the start of disarmament. -
Margaret Thatcher
British stateswoman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have been appointed. This relates to The Cold War, because she was anti-communism. -
Fall of Saigon
The Liberation or (depending on the context) the Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng) on 30 April 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic. This relates to The Cold War, because it's when Vietnam began becoming communist. -
Pope John Paul II
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005. He is called Saint John Paul the Great by some Catholics. This relates to The Cold War, because he was an anti communist leader. -
SALT II
Although SALT II resulted in an agreement in 1979, the United States Senate chose not to ratify the treaty in response to the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which took place later that year. The Soviet legislature also did not ratify it. The agreement expired on December 31, 1985 and was not renewed. This relates to The Cold War, because it's the second attempt of disarmament. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and he took control of Kabul’s military and political power along with large portions of the country. The invasion was a turning point for the Cold War, marking the only time the Soviet Union was able to take control of a country outside the Eastern Bloc. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng led his country through far-reaching market-economy reforms. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary (that is, the leader of the Communist Party), he nonetheless was responsible for economic reforms and an opening to the global economy. This relates to The Cold War, because he was a communist. -
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. This relates to The Cold War, because it's shows the USSR is beginning to fall. -
Lech Walesa
Second president of Poland He presided over Poland's transition from communism to a post-communist state. This relates to The Cold War, because it was a major loss for the USSR. -
START I
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 inter-continental ballistic missiles this relates to The Cold War, because it was the first disarmament. -
START II
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the U.S. 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 target-able reentry vehicles (MIRVs) on intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). This relates to The Cold War, because it was a disarmament between the U.S. and Russia
