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Mao Zedung
Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China, he led as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from the establishment of the PRC in 1949 until his death in 1976 -
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km² and has an estimated population of 239,796,010. -
Iron Curtain
The symbol Churchill used to denote the separation of Europe into two rival camps. On one side of the iron curtain were the democracies of western Europe while on the other side were the totalitarian countries of central and eastern Europe that were dominated by the Soviet Union. -
Truman
Harry S. Truman became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945. During his nearly eight years in office, Truman confronted enormous challenges in both foreign and domestic affairs. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman’s foreign policy that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent the expansion of communism. -
Berlin Airlift
1940s military operation that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city. -
NATO
Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. -
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Korean War
One of the events in this is the Peace Treaty it s a proposed settlement to formally end military hostilities on the Korean Peninsula as a follow-up to the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement implemented by the United Nations after the Korean War. -
M.A.D
Mutually assured destruction, the principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated. nuclear weapon. -
Domino Theory
The theory that a polictical event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall. The U.S. justified its military intervention in Vietnam with the domino theory, which stated that if one country fell under the influence of Communism, the surrounding countries would inevitably follow. The aim was to prevent Communist domination of South-East Asia. -
Warsaw Pact
Ideologically opposed and overbuilt up their own defenses starting an arms race that lasted throughout the Cold War.
In reaction to West Germany’s NATO accession, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client states formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955. -
Space Race
The USSR and the United States were involved in the Space Race. A Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight. -
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Vietnam War
The Paris Peace Accords End Direct Combat Role of United States in the Vietnam War. In January of 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed after four years of negotiations, with the intent to establish peace in Vietnam and end the war. The Accords were signed by the United States, and North and South Vietnam. -
Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement is a forum of 120 countries that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide. -
JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. -
SALT
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. These treaties had the goal of reducing the number of long-range ballistic missiles (strategic arms) that each side could possess and manufacture. -
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Soviet-Afghan War
One of the events in the Soviet-Afghan War was the Mujahideen. It is the members of a number of guerrilla groups operating in Afghanistan during the Afghan War.