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Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill delivers the speech in the United States. He is concerned about Soviet Aggression in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain is the division between Capitalist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. He wanted America to take a bigger role in Soviet aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman gives a speech to a joint session of Congress, then asks the U.S. for assistance for Greece and Turkey to forestall communist domination of the two nations. Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy that was supposed to counter the Soviet expansion during the cold war. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union attempted to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the U.S. to travel to their sectors of Berlin which was in East Germany. The western powers helped and secretly delivered supplies for nearly a year to Berlin. -
Marshall Plan
This was known as the European recovery program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe after WW2. It was used to help reconstruct cities, industries, and anything else that needed to be fixed. -
Berlin Airlift
During the Berlin Blockade the United States sent supplies to the city. They have been sending supplies for nearly a year and helped over 2 million people in Berlin. -
Communists take over China
Mao Zedong announced the birth of the people's republic in China. China stands up refusing to be slaves. Mao Zedong takes over china. -
NATO
NATO is an international alliance that has 29 member states. It was formed to defend each other from the communist Soviet Union from taking over their nation. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when 75,000 North Korean soldiers came across the 38th parallel. The first military action of the Cold War. American soldiers joined the war with the South Koreans. -
Vietnam War
A battle between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their ally, the United States began in 1954. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
Revolt in Hungary
The Hungarians were angry at the de-stalinisation policy and it caused problems in the Eastern communist countries where they hated the regimes the Russia put. Hungarians were religious but the communist party banned them. The death of Stalin brought hope and freedom to them so they started a revolution. It resulted in 200,000 being killed, arrested, or fleeing. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched the worlds first artificial satellite. Sputnik transmitted radio signals back down to earth that was strong enough to be picked up by radio operators. 1958, Sputnik burned up in space. -
Great Leap Forward
A push by Mao Zedong to change China from a farming society to a industrial society. Millions of Chinese citizens were moved to communes. Over the years it caused great environmental damage in China. Resulted in about 45 million people dying. -
Apollo Program
Apollo program was meant for humans to land on the moon and then safely back to earth. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in a military standoff over the the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet Union missiles on Cuba. These two powers jumped into one of their biggest Cold War confrontations after an american pilot photographed a soviet SS-4 missile being installed. -
Cultural Revolution
Communist leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution at a meeting of the Plenum of the Central committee to claim authority over the Chinese government after being removed from power. He believed that other communist leaders were taking the party and china in the wrong direction. -
Revolt in Czechoslovakia
Approximately 200,000 Warsaw pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring," a brief period of liberalization in the communist country.
