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John F. Kennedy
JFKJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
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China's Civil War
China Civil WarThe Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1950. Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang, there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China. -
End of the World War 2
After the 6 years and a day of war, it came to a stop on September 2, 1945. -
United Nations
united nationsIntergovernmental organization that promoted international co-operation. France, Denmark, Ecuador, Austrailia, Canada, Belgium, and more. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech announcing that there is going to be an "iron curtain" from Settin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic. This was a cause to the cold war. -
Truman Doctrine
truman doctrineAmerican foriegn policy intended to counter the soviet in the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall PlanThe Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War. -
Berlin Airlift
berlin airliftMilitary operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after East Berlin cut off supply lines. -
NATO
NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
USSRtested to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb -
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Korean War
Korean WarThe Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
H-Bomb
H-BombThis event ends America's monopoly of atomic weaponry and launches the Cold War. In the 1950's, The Arms Race became the focus of the Cold War. America tested the first Hydrogen bomb. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
EisenhowerDwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and General who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. -
Stalin's Death
StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 -
End of the Korean War
Korean WarThe Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
SEATO
SEATOThe Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines -
Warsaw Pact
WarsawThe Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
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Vietnam War
warwas a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Doctrine. U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
Sputnik
SputnikSputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957 -
Fidel Castro takes over Cuba.
Fidel Castro Cuban leader Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. -
Bay of Pigs
BOPThe Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
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Berlin Wall
Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
CMCThe Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba -
Day of JFK assassination
JFKPresident John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas -
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Lyndon Johnson
LBLyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy -
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Lyndon Johnson
LBJLyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy -
MAD Plan
MAD Plan Mutual assured destruction, or MAD, is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender -
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Richard Nixon
Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office -
NASA's first moon landing
First moon landingApollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the Moon. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on July 20, 1969 -
SALT
SALT For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
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Gerald Ford
FordGerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. -
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 -
Francis Gary Powers
Gary PowersFrancis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
SovietsThe Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups, who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces -
Miracle on Ice
Miracle on IceThe "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22 -
U.S. boycott of the summer olympics
Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor, who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 -
Star Wars- Strategic Defense Initiative
Star Wars
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
Tiananmen Square
The square is best known in recent memory as the focal point of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, a pro-democracy movement which ended on 4 June 1989 with the declaration of martial law in Beijing by the government and the shooting of several hundred, or possibly thousands, of civilians by soldiers. -
Gorbachev Comes to Power
GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
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George Bush Sr.
GBGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States, and the 43rd Vice President of the United States -
Soviets Leave Afghanistan
AfghanFrom 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989 -
Berlin Wall Falls
Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased -
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Boris Yeltsin
YeltsinBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Fall
On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
