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Buffer States of USSR
Poland and other states between Germany and the Soviet Union have sometimes been described as buffer states, with reference both to when they were non-communist states before World War II, and to when they were communist states after World War II. -
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atomic Bomb
In July 16, 1945, the creation of the first atomic bomb came to fruition in the United States and was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico at a site called "Trinity". The atomic bomb had two objectives: a quick end of World War II and possession by the US (and not USSR), would allow control of foreign policy. -
Molotov Plan
the Molotov plan was a system created by the soviet union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in eastern europe -
Truman Doctrine
it was first announced to Congress by president Harry S. Truman on march 12 1947 and further developed on july 12 1948 when the pledged to contain threats to greece and turkey. -
Berlin airlift
at the end of the second world war, U.S,British, and soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. The crisis was a result competing occupation policies and rising tensions between Western powers and soviet union. -
Marshall Plan
officially in european recovery program, EPR was an American initiative to aid western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion. In economic assitance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War ll. -
U.S. aid to Greece
The truman Doctrine was an american foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war... Direct american military force was usually not involved, but congress appropriated financial aid to support the economies and militaries of Greece and Turkey. -
U.S. aid to Turkey
In a dramatic speech to a joint session of Congress, president Harry S. Truman asks for U.S. assistance for greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. -
Communists win china
following the second world war the communist in china who had been fighting in coalition against the japanese, roughly 1/4 of chinese land and 1/3 of the population. The communist had a good relationship with the soviet union and through this were able to secure the arms that had been confiscated from japanese troops at the end of the war and aid from the soviet union. -
NATO established
The United states and 11 otherf nations established in North Atlantic treaty Organization ( NATO, a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible soviet agression against Western Euroupe. -
USSR gets atomic bomb
the Soviet effort was led by Igor Kurchatov at a secret site known as Arzamas -16. Early efforts were greatly aided by spies inside manhattan project, most notably by klaus Fuchs. -
Korean War
on june 25 1950, the korean war began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North korean people's army poured across the 38th parallel. -
Coup in Iran
The successful coup occurred in august of 1953 and the shrah's assumed power as had been planned. the shrah's dictator marked by repression and torture of Iranians and lasted nearly 26 years. -
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Coup in Guatemala
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. -
Warsaw Pact formed
the soviet union and it's afilliated communist nations in eastern europe founded the rival alliance the warsaw pact in 1955. -
Hungary (rebellion)
the hungarian revolution of 1956 of hungarian uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the hungarian people republic and its soviets - imposed policies ,lasting from 23 october untill 10 november 1956. -
suez Canal Crisis
on october 29, 1956, Israel armed forces pushed into egypt toward the Suez canal after egyptian president Gamal Abdel nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal in july of the same year, initiating the suez crisis. -
Sputnik
as the result of sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise cold war tensions. during the 1950s, both the U.S. and the soviet union were working to develope new technology. -
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Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
There were encompasses these events that made up the revolution: the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) attempting to oust it. -
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Cuba (missile Crisis)
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous moment in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The actions taken by President John F. Kennedy's administration prevented the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from Florida. -
Coup in Chile
the 1973 chliean coup d'etat was watershed event in both the history of chile and the cold war. -
End of troops in Vietnam
the vietnam war also known as the second indochina War, and in Vietnam as the resistance war against america or simply at american war, was a conflict that occured in vietnam. -
Beginning of troops in Vietnam
The north vietnamese government and the viet Cong were fighting to reunify vietnam. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the first indochina war against forces from france. -
Communist Angola
the angola civil war was a major civil conflict in angola, beginning of 1975 and continuing, with some interludes until 2002 -
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Soviets invade Afghanistan
invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
Evil Empire speech
peaking to a convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida on this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan publicly refers to the Soviet Union as an evil empire for the second time in his career. He had first used the phrase in a 1982 speech at the British House of coomon. -
Star Wars (S.D.I)
was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. -
Iran Contra Affair
In 1984, the Boland Amendment passed, which said that the CIA and Department of Defense could not give militaristic aid (specifically in Nicaragua). The conflict began in 1985, while Iran and Iraq were at war with each other. Reagan had hopes that if he were to supply Iran with United States military supplies and weapons. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
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Fall of the USSR
The collapse of the Soviet Union started in the late 1980s and was complete when the country broke up into 15 independent states on December 25, 1991. This signaled the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.