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Russian Communist Revolution
This was the start of Communism and rivals democracy, which is the American government, and one of the reasons for the Cold War. -
Treaty of Versailles
Meant to destroy the government of Germany. Russia wanted destroy the government again but the US saw that it would cause another World War. In this disagreement heightended tensions between the two superpowers. -
League of Nations
This meant the rise of the cold war because it was unable to keep the peace after WW1. It fell after WW2 and when the two superpowers arose after the war there was nothing to stop the tensions rising between them. -
Yalta Conference
The meeting was held post WWII to determine what would happen to the nations of the war-torn nations of Europe. During the Cold War it became very controversial. -
MAD
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full scale use on high yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation on both atttacker and defender -
United Nations
Never worked because the Soviets and United States could never agree on current problems, which heightened the tensions between the 2 super powers. -
Nuremburg Trials
In the trials, the Soviets were problematic, and Thomas Dodd saw that the Cold War was coming in the near future. -
General Assembly
When the general assembly which the U.S. is in. The security council which the soviets were a part of would always create tensions, because when the general assembly wanted something done the security council would always veto them. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Made the U.S. tense even further about the threat of Communism. -
Baruch Plan
Proposel by the US government. Tried to have an international organization to regulate atomic energy. -
Truman Doctrine
Message to the USSR that the USA would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority -
Marshall Plan
Was made to help all European countries that suffered from WWII. The Soviet Union did not join, the lead to the division of Germany. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blockaded all entry ways into Berlin ,so the United States dropped supplies into the city from an airplane. -
NATO created
It was created because of Communist expansion. The Soviets created the Warsaw Pact and caused a poitical division in Europe. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
When China converted to Communism, America had to suspend diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China. -
Joesph McCarthy speech
In this speech, Joseph McCarthy said the U.S. was filled with Soviet spies, and this made the people go on a witch hunt, per se, and this heightened tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
First military action of the Cold War. Was a war of international communism -
Warsaw Pact
Was the Soviets response to West Germany joining NATO -
Sputnik launched
Beginning of the space race. Made U.S. fear Soviets were far more advanced in space technology. -
Nuclear Deterrent
A credible threat of retaliation by the US to forestall enemy attack during the Cold War -
Building of Berlin Wall Begins
Symbol which meant the division of the United States and the capitalist-democratic west and the Soviet Union and its allies among the communist bloc of nations. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The United States attempted to overthrow Fidel Castro -
Fidel Castro proclaims Communist Cuba
The U.S. wanted to stop the spread of Communism, and the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, which tensed up the situation, leading to an arms race. -
The first concrete barrier is built
hightened the tension because it showed that the soviets were unwilling to cooperate with the western side of berlin -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in a military and political standoff for 13 days. This also created more tension between the 2 super powers. -
U.S. sends troops to Vietnam
The western allies had been victorious in Berlin even though communism ha taken root in China. Eastern Europe was still ruled by Russia. The Americans feared the spreading of communism in Vietnam. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
An agreement to stop the spreading of nuclear weapons and weapons technology also to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. -
Apollo 11
A part of the war was the space race, and the battle was won by the United States because we landed on the moon first. -
Kent State shootings
Made people oppose being in the Vietnam War and eventually made the goverment withdraw earlier than it wanted to. When Vietnam was reunited as a whole country, it fell under Communism. -
Fall of Sagion
It fell to North Vietnam, and the French were occupying it, and the U.S. supported the French. When VVietnam became reunited, it became Communist, and the U.S. was trying to contain it. -
Pope John Paul the second
He helped end the cold war becouse like Reagan he disliked communism. -
Margaret Thatcher
She helped end the cold war and was the first prime minister of the conservitive party. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
They spread Communism there by putting in a puppet government, and the United States was trying to stop Communism by using the policy of containment. -
Den Xiaoping
Started the chinese revolution and made china a communist country. The U.S. was trying to contain communism. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The end to the division of Germany in the Cold War. -
Lech Walesa
was the leader of soloderity in poland which was the first non communist trade union.