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Winston Churchill delivers "Iron Curtain" Speech
Churchill gave a speech talking about the serperation communism to the rest of Europe. Joseph Stalin saw this as a call for war. This created a lot of tension between communist countries and Western European coutries, as well as the United States. Tension Meter: 5, Because Stalin believed that this was Churchill asking for war. -
Truman Doctrine established
The U.S provided a military and econimic aid to Greece and Turkey. They wanted to help prevent communism from spreading to these countries. This caused a civil war to break out in Greece. Tension Meter: 4, because it created a war within a country and may have inspired other countries think about doing the same. -
Marshall Plan is announced
The U.S would provide aid to European countries after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of communism. The goal was to rebuild a war-devastated region and make Europe prosperous again. Tension Meter: 2, because there was no interaction between either side of the war. -
Berlin Blockade begins
The Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' railways and all other forms of transportaion into Berlin and West Germany. The blockade caused the Berlin airlift to bring food and other supplies into West Berlin. The success of the airlift embarrassed the Soviets. Tension Meter: 4, because the allies were supplying an area where the soviets were trying to put down. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO for short, is a organization that was created for the collective defence of its members to response to an attack by any external party. Tension Meter: 5 because the organization was created to combat communist. -
Mao Zedong (a Communist), takes control of China
Mao Zedong, a Communist, formed the People's Republic of China, but Mao Zedong and his communist were sponsored by the USSR (giving money and weapons), The Communist Party was loved by the people.
Tension Meter: 6 because the People's Republic of China was a Communist nation that had an allins with the USSR -
Senator Joe McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
The Second Red Scare, was a time when people were affed of what the communtis were doing and people feared everything do to with communis.
Tension Meter: 3 because people were very affaed of the communists -
korean war begins
the war begin by the north taking over allmost all of Korean, the U.S. then came to South Korean aid and phosed back North Korean, but the Chinese and other Communist forces phosed the allied forces back to the 38th parallel became the borter for the two nations.
Tension Meter: 6.5 because the this was a arm battle between the communist and the U.S. -
Rosenberg Execution
the two, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war, and executed.Charged with giving information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union the two were executed on June 19, 1953.
Tension Meter: 3 because the USSR was not affaed by this. -
Warsaw Pact is formed
The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance or Warsaw Pact of short, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. the Warsaw pact was a reaction to NATO.
Tension Meter: 5 because the organization was created by communist to combat there enemies. -
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Vietnam War
the Vietnam War lasted form 1955 to 1975 about 20 years. The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam, The Vietnam War was unliked by people, not just by citizens of the US but by many others too.
Tension Meter: 5 because it was unliked by allmost anyone. -
Soviet occupation of Hungary
After WW II the Soviet occupation of Hungary, but during 23 October until 10 November 1956, the people of Hungary revolted, but the revolt failure but play a role in the downfall of the Soviet Union decades later.
Tension Meter: 4 because the Soviet were occupaing hungary. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, the satellite was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4 1957 at 19:28:34 hours, with the lauch of this satellite the Soviets has won the space race.
Tension Meter: 5, the Soviet had won the space rase by putting the first Satellite, Man and Dog in space, but the U.S.A would be the first to put a man on the moon. -
U-2 incident
During the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing polital tension between the two superpowers.
Tension Meter: 7 because it really made a mess of the world trust. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba. The invading force was defeated by the Cuban armed forces, under the command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro, within three days.
Tension Meter: 5 because the invasion was a failure and leaders who sided with the US were ousted. -
Berlin Wall
constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Wall lasted for 27 years and many died becuase of it.
Tension Meter: 5 becuase the Wall made the US and West Berlin very uneasy about the Soviets. -
Cuban missile crisis
the USSR had nuclear missiles in cuban, but the US had nuclear missiles Turkey and Italy, The missiles were aimed at the superpowers, this all most brot MAD to realad
Tension Meter: 9 this allmost brought WW 3 to reality. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was talks about disarmong that did not really work but it was a start. SALT I led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the two countries. but SALT II did not work but the Soviet invaded Afghanistan.
Tension Meter: 2 because SALT I work with disarming dut SALT II did not work. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
It was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen with other countries, namely the United States, China, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia giving billions of dollars to the Mujahideen. The conflict in Afghanistan is sometimes referred to as the "Soviet Union's Vietnam War".
Tension Meter: 5 because this is seen as a useless war but its a war nonetheless. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
the Strategic Defense Initiative was a idea to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attacks by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. SDI focused more on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD).
Tension Meter: 3 because this allowed the US to be more prepared for nuclear strikes. -
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to remove missiles
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was a treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, in Washington, D.C. The treaty was an agreement that removed nuclear and conventional missiles that where a danger to both the US and the USSR.
Tension Meter: 2 because this was a disarming period for both the US and the USSR. -
The Berlin Wall Falls
The Berlin Wall that had stood between West Berlin and East Berlin, fall on November 9 (1989), allowing citizens traval to west Germany and West Berlin. People celebrated this because the wall had separated Berlin and Germany for 27 years. The physical wall itself was takein down the following year.
Tension Meter: 3 becauce it was Ronald Reagan who asked Mikhail Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!" -
End of Soviet Union/ Cold War ends
The soviet Union collapsed due to economic breakdown and very poor leadership by Gorbachev. The people of the Soviet Union were devastated by the communist party trying to change the government back to complete communism. This event ended the Cold War. Tension Meter: 1, because the war is over, the Soviet Union is no longer living.
