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Russian Communist Revolution
Women of Russia were tired of working long, exhausting hours in horrible working conditions to feed their families while their husbands were at war, so one day, they protested throughout the streets for a change. -
Treaty of Versailles
Peace settlement signed to end WW1. Because of the terms that were in this treaty, Germany became very upset, and this eventually lead to WW2. -
League of Nations
Treaty made after WW1 to ensure that war never broke out again. The U.S. didn't join the League because they thought that it was useless and that it would eventually end in failure. -
MAD
The idea that if a population is attacked by another country with nuclear weapons, then they are allowed to fire their nuclear weapons also. This would eventually end in the destruction for most countries. -
Yalta Conference
President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet in Russia to make important desicions regarding the progress of the war and what would happen after the war. -
United Nations
Includes 193 countries acting as alliances and the United Nations General Assembly. -
General Assembly
Representative organization to the United Nations that discusses the international issues covered by the charter. -
Iron Curtain speech
Winston Churchill gave this speech and decribed an "Iron Curtain" referring to the division between the Western powers and all of the other countries that were under Soviet control. -
Baruch Plan
The U.S. presented this plan to the United Nations to try and control the use of atomic weapons, but this plan did not get passed. This resulted in the arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
Under President Harry Truman, the U.S established the Truman Doctrin which offered political, military, and economic help to counrties under communist rule. -
Marshall Plan
Offered to finance the economic recovery of $13 billion to Eurpoean nations after WW2. -
Berlin Wall
Evolved from a piece of barbed wire to a heavy concrete barrier with guards, traps, and other obstacles to stop anybody from coming in. -
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Berlin Airlift
Berlin, now under Soviet control, blocked all highways, railways, and canals in an attempt to drive out Britain, France, and the U.S. But this didn't work because the U.S. decided to get their supplies through airplanes instead. -
NATO created
Intergovermental in military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. It included twelve countries who acted as alliances. -
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Nuremberg Trials
Thirteen trials including over 200 Nazi soldiers convicted of war crimes during WW2 in Germany. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. Since now that China is a dicatorship, the U.S cut all ties with them. -
Jeseph McCarthy speech
He gave a speech warning us of Communism in America. He also listed all of the poeple involved in Communism in the U.S and listed their crimes. -
Korea War
It was the first armed battle of The Cold War. It started when North Korea crossed over the 38th Parallel, into South Korea's territory. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and 7 other European countries sign the treaty, creating the Warsaw Pact, which was a mutual defence organization that put the Soviets under control of the military and thier alliances. -
Sputnik launched
The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite into space. The satellite took 98 minutes to orbit Earth on it's elliptical path. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Eight months after the Bay Of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castro announced that Cuba is now in a communist state. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
When Fidel Castro and heis guerrilla army invaded Cuba and the American-backed president there and took over power, the U.S. got angry and brought 1,400 U.S. troops to Cuba to remove Castro. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
During the early years of The Cold War, East Germany often fled to West Germany in an attempt to flee communism. But after Berlin was split into four zones, communist West Germany quickly put up a wall. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
America spotted missles pointed at the U.S in Cuba, put there by the Soviets. The U.S then put missles in Turkey, aiming them at the Soviet Union. JFK and Krushchev eventually reached an agreement and they both removed their missles. -
U.S sends troops to Vietnam
The U.S sends troops to Vietnam in response to the Gulf Of Tonkin insident in 1964, President Johnson, decided to escalate the tensions in Vietnam by sending over American troops. -
Nuclear Deterrent
The U.S. used the idea of nuclear deterrence that stated if they were attacked by the enemy, then they would attack them with their atomic weapons. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
this treaty has 2 groups, the NWS, who have nuclear weapons nut want to disarm them, and the NNWS, who don't have nuclear weapons, but want to develop and use them. -
Apollo 11
First manned mission to land on the moon. Niel Armstrong Buzz Aldrin were on this mission and were the first humans to walk on the moon. This determined who won the space race between the U.S and the Soviet Union. -
Kent State shootings
Ohio National Gaurd fired into a crowd of Kent Sate student demonstrators, killing 4 and wounding 9 students. This shooting led to a nation wide student strike. -
SALT 1
When the Soviet Union set up a defense system around Moscow, President Johnson called for a Strategic Arms Limitations Talk which stated that the U.S. must gain control of the defense system also. -
Fall of Saigon
The North Vietnamese army reached the outskirts of Sagion and began attacking. The South Vietamese then surrendered and Sagion fell to the rule of North Vietnam. -
Pope John Paul 2
It is believed that he helped end communism in the Soviet Union by starting a trade union called Social Soliditary. He died on April 2, 2005. -
SALT 2
The goal was to replace the Interim Agreement that would replace it with a long term agreement to limit the offensive weapon system. -
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of Great Britain who became allies with the American president Ronald Raegan because they were both against the rise of communism. She died in 2013 due to a stroke. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and declared political and military control of large portions of the country. -
Lech Walesa
Helped found the Social Soliditary with Pope John Paul 2. He was a Polish politician and a Human Rights activist. He died in 1990. -
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese revolutionist who led China through far reaching economic reforms. He died in 1997 -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
East Germany Communist Party announced that anyone could pass as they please. People began to pass into West Berlin, bringing their own toold to help chip away at the wall and pass freely. -
START 1
First treaty to make reductions in nuclear weapons between thye U.S and the Soviet Union. It had a duration of 15 years if all the parties agreed and it was meant for the predictability and stability to contain nuclear weapons. -
START 2
Elimiated ICBMS and reduced the amount of strategic nuclear weapons that both weapons had. This treay reduced the amount of arms by 2/3 the amount of START 1.
