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WWII Ended
On September 2, 1945, Japanesse surrenders. -
United Nations
Intergovernment organization to promote co-operation. -
Churchill'd Iron Curtain Speech
To stop comunist from growind. Iron Curtain is dropping and we need to make the current pernement. -
China's Civil War
The war repersents an ideological split between the Communist CPC and KMT'S Brand of Nationalism. Starting August 1, 1927 to December 22, 1936 and starting again on March31, 1946 to May 1, 1950. -
China's Civil War
The war repersent an ideological split between the communist CPC and the KMT's brand of nationalism starting August 1, 1927 to December 22, 1936, and started back up on MArch 31, 1948 to May 1. 1930. -
Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies agter the end of WWII. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States begin a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the Besieged City because the Soviet blockadeof land routes in West Berlin. -
Truman Doctrine
Was an American Foreign Policy created to counter Soviet Union geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Org. Secure economies and ensure peace. -
USSR'S 1st ATOMIC Bomb Test
Successfully detonates its 1st atomic bomb, code name First Lightening. -
Korean War
Started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations came to aid South Korea and China and Soviet Union aided North Korea. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President of United States. Main goal was to keep pressure on Soviet Union and reduce federal deficits. -
H-Bomb
United States test the first Hydrogen bomb. -
Mutually Assured Destruction/ MAD Plan
A U.S. doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the U.S. and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack. -
Stalin's Death
Leader of Soviet Union since 1924. He died of a massive Heart Attack. -
John F. Kennedy
35th President. -
When Did Fidel Take Over Cuba?
He failed and was captured and sentenced to Jail for 15 years, but was let out in 1955 and ended up in Mexico. -
End of Korean War
Armistice Ends the War. But it technically never ends. -
SEATO
International Organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Treaty Org. -
Warsaw Pact
Was a collective Defense treaty among the SU and 7 other Soviet Satellite states in central and Eastern Europe in existence during the civil war. -
Vietnam War
Was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
Francis Gary Powers
American Pilot whose central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union Airspace. -
Sputnik
Was the 1st artificial Earth satellite. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba under taken by the CIA-Sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
Barrier that divided Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
When was JFK shot and killed?
Was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Lyndon Johnson
36th President, took over for JFK. -
Richard Nixon
37th President -
NASA's First Moon Landing
Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. -
SALT- First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
Froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels and provided for the addition of new Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) Launcher only after the same number of older Intercontineal Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers were dismantled. -
Gerald Ford
38th President -
Eisenhower Doctrine
U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern Country needing help in resisting Communist Aggression. -
Jimmy Carter
39th President. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. -
U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics
U.S. boycotts olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviets invasion on Afghanistan. -
Miricle on Ice
the U.S. Hockey team face off against Soviet Union in the Medal round of Lake Placid Olympics. The U.S. team WON! -
Ronald Reagan
40th President. -
STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative
An ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
George Bush (Senior)
41st President -
When did Soviets leave Afghanistan?
Troops started to leave on May 15, 1988, continued until Feb. 2, 1989. On Feb. 15, 1989, thy announced all its troops had left. -
Tianamen Square
Large City Square in the center of Beijing, China, located to its North and separating it from the Forbidden City. -
Berlin Wall Falls
The conditions that had caused its construction did not change. -
When Did Gorbachev Come to Power?
President of Soviet Union. -
Boris Yeltsin
First President of Russia -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
90% of Everyone wanted and voted for Independence.
