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Russian Communist Revolution
A series of revolutions the led to the creation of the Soviet Union. A provisional government was created in the Soviet Union during the second revolution within the years of the cold war. The provisional government was replaced by the communist government. This government was known as Bolshevik. Russia was now the first country to have a communist government and this led to the spread of communism. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the outcome of the Paris Peace Conference where nations, including the "Big Four" of Great Britian, France, the United States, and Italy set forth the terms of peace after the World War. The Treaty included the plan to form the League of Nations. -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was the first organization to maintain world peace. Its goals are to prevent wars and settle international dispute through negotioation and arbitration. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference occurred when Roosevelt, Churchhill and Stalin met to discuss the Allied war effort against Germany and Japan. During this conference it was hinted at what was to become the Cold War. -
General Assembly
The General Assembly is one of the 6 principle parts of the United Nations. It oversees the budget of the UN and makes recommendations to the UN. The General Assembly is mostly needed to keep peace between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
United Nations
It was an organization that was created to promote international co-operation. During The Cold War, there ws tension amoung communist and anti-communist countries and the U.N. was made to helo keep peace and security amoung them, but instead it helped out with decolonization and human rights. -
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Nuremberg Trials
A series of military trials and their purpose was to go after the criminals of the war. This strengthened the bonds of the allies with the United States during the cold war. -
Iron Curtain Speech
The speech warned the threat of the Soviet Union taking over, who at the time was allys with France and the United States. This was one of the reasons why the cold war was going to begin. -
Baruch Plan
A proposal by the U.S. that said all countries would exchange basic scientific information to have peaceful endings. It also said that it would control the amount of nuclear power, have no use, building, or developrement of atomic weapons, and establish safeguards to protect the states that would be violated or invaded. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctorine was meant to contain and confront the influence of communism. The Doctorine was resorted to during the period of time when USSR was trying to get Turkey to give access to the daedenells . Turkey resisted the pressure. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman appointed George Marshall as the Secretary of State. In this position Marshall crafted the European Recovery Program. The ERP was a system of loans and aid to all nations affected by the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
After WW II, the American, British, and French forces combined their German economic zones. Protesting, the Soviets blocked all access to between Berlin and western Germany. The American, British, and French provided cargo planes that carried tons of supplies to the western part of Berlin due to the Soviets refusal to lift the blockade of Berlin. -
NATO created
NATO was an alliance created between North American and European territories. Its main purpose was to defend eachother from the possibilty of communist takeover. -
Chinese Communist Revoltion
In the revolution it was the communist against the nationalists. When going against eachother, the peasants of China chose to side with the communist party. This led to the communist party overpowering the Nationalist party. After the communists won, China then became a communist country, This resulted in the spread of communism into southern nations. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
A speech gievn by Senator Joseph McCarthy; he claimed in the speech that there were communist spies within the state department in the United States. His claims of this scared the citizens of the U.S. -
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Korean War
The Korean war began when communist north Korea invaded non-communist south Korea. The U.S. hlped the South Kora as an international peace-keeping force. They didn't want this war to be a "hot war". -
Warsaw Pact
The Sovient Union and its European communist countries signed a treaty that established a mutual defense organization putting the Soviet Union in charge of the armed forces of the members formed in opposition to NATO. It continued to frame the military standoff which continued throughout the Cold War. -
Sputnik launched
Sputnik was the first ever artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union. The launching of this was thought to be a worry that the Soviet Union could possibly be planning to set off ballistic missles that could carry nuclear weapons from Europe to the United States. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuba was a communist country and received help from the Soviet Union. The Bay of Pigs Invasion occurred when the CIA financed and trained a group of refugees that landed in Cuba. They attemted to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attempt was a failure. -
Building of Berlin Wall begins
During the building of the Berlin Wall, the Eastern Berlin soldiers would spend the nights tearing up the streets and light poles and replaced them with barbed wire. This blocked morning commuters from getting to where they needed to go. The Berlin Wall was built because East Germany did not want to become a democratic nation. -
Fidel Castro proclaims communist Cuba
Fidel Castro claims the first communist country/nation in the western hemisphere. The location of the communist country was in Cuba. He did this the seperate himself from the allies during the Cold War. -
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MAD (mutually assured destruction)
MAD was a doctrine of military stratagy which was a fuul-scale mof dangerous weapons of mass destruction prohibited the U,S, and the USSR from using nuclear weapons in the Cold War. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
When the Soviet Union put missles in Cuba. The U.S. was worried that they would launch the missles. We didn't want any conflicts to occur, so in order to get rid of the threat of the missles being launched we told the Soviets that we would take our missles out of Turkey and to not invade Cuba in exchange of them removing their missles from Cuba. -
Kennedy gave a speech
Kennedy gave his speech on the steps of the Rathaus Schöneberg, which is the town hall for the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin. After Kennedy’s assassination, the square was renamed John F. Kennedy-Platz. -
US sends troops to Vietnam
President Johnson ordered the sending of US Marines air defense missile battalion to Da Nang to provide protection for the US airbase located there. Threats of intervention by China and the Soviet Union against the United States occurred should the US continue to show military support on behalf of the South Vietnamese. -
Nuclear Deterrent
When the U.S. adopted nuclear deterrence it was a threat of retaliation to delay an enemy attack. This was also the Soviets plan to start a nuclear war so it could be won. -
Apollo 11
First manned mission to the moon. The United States wins the space race against the Soviet Union because of this mission. This event also concluded the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The agreement was to limit the spreaad of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, and further the goals of achieving nuclear disarmament. -
Kent State shootings
An event that involved the shooting of unarmed college students by a guardsmen from the U.S. national guard. These students were shot while they were protesting the Cambodian Campaign. The Campaign was a series of military operations in Combodia by South Vietnam nd the United States during the Vietnam War. -
SALT 1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
SALT I were negotiations between the US and the USSR. The talks were designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons and froze the number of ballistic missile launchers. This treaty negotiated between President Nixon and Brezhnev was the first step in controlling the arms race. -
Fall of Saigon
When the capitol of South Vietnam got invaded by North Vietnam. Since the U.S. backed South Vietnam we went in and helped out and ended up losing 58,000 troops . This also led to Vietnam not being divided anymore and becoming a communist country. -
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II was the first Polish pope. In May 1981, he was the victim of an attempted assasination by a member of a Turkish terrorist group. He played a mojor part in helping to end the Cold Soidity Labor movement in 1980 In October 1995, Pope John Paul II addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the U.N.'s 50th anniversary. He was known as a pope who tried to end communism. He died On December 22 1993 -
Margaret Thatcher
During her time the fall of the Berlin Wall occured and Eastern Europe was free. Her leadership and courage led to the rise of democracy and the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War.She ended her leadership on Nevermber 28, 1990. -
SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
SALT II was an entirely new set of negotiations which lasted 7 years. It was the first nuclear arms treaty which reduced strategic forces to 2,250 on both sides and set more specific regulations on the different missiles. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan because the non-communist muslims of Afghanistan wanted to overpower the communists. The Soviets backed the communists, so they sent troops in to prevent the further spread of anti-communists. This led to the U.S. not signing the SALT 2 treaty. -
Deng Xiaoping
He was a leader in China that made communist China become a capitalist society. He promoted peace and economic growth in China. During the Cold War he opened the economy to the world. He also introduced China to foriegn investments, the global market, and limited private competition with other countries. He retired from leadership in 1992. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The East German official Gunter Schabowski allowed to citizens to pass through the Berlin Wall for "private trips abroad." Shortly after this shift, the citizens of E. Germany began to chip away at the Wall, which was a symbol of the suppression of human rights by East German rulers during the Cold War. -
Lech Walesa
A Polish labor activist who formed the first communist trade union, Solidarity. He became president of Poland in 1990.He was the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in freedom of organization. He died on December 22 1995. -
START 1 (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)
START I was signed in Moscow in a meeting between Soviet and US presidents, Gorbachev and George Bush. This agreement between the USSR and the US was to ensure equality in the amount of nuclear weapons each country could maintain. -
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)
The START II treaty was negotiated by the US President Bush and Russian President Yeltsin. The treaty reduced the number of ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. It also limited the number of warheads deployed on them.
