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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was the leader of the communists from 1935 all the way to the day he died. he helped lead the communists to victory during the revolution in China and allowed the Communists to take over China. -
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Harry Truman
The Cold War began when Truman was president. He committed a policy for the US to support foes of Communism everywhere around the world. His failure to lead the US to victory during the Korean War led to a huge decline in support for his policies. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine was made to help the US during this time by not being involved in something bad. It was something that was supposed to provide assistance to all of the democratic nations when the nations where under a threat. at the end, this helped reorient the U.S. foreign policy. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was also known as the European recovery program. It was to recover the economy of Europe. The program channeled over 13 billion dollars to finance the economic recovery! Fortunately, It all worked out. -
The Berlin blockade and airlift
The Berlin blockade and airlift came from The Soviet Union's attempt to force the Western Allies to abandon their post - World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. After the Allied powers united their different occupation zones of Germany into one economic union, the Soviet representative withdrew from the Allied control council In protest. Thinking this was a violation of agreements with the allies, The Soviets put a blockade of all railroad and water communications between Berlin and the west. -
The Korean War
The war began when the first military action of the cold war happened. 75,000 soldiers from the north Korean people's army went across the 38th parallel. By July, American troops joined the war on South Korea's side.The American officials feared that there could be a World War III if they didn't think of something to do. At the end of the war, some 5 million soldiers and civilians died and the Korean peninsula is divided up to this day. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita paced nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida, creating part of the Cuban missile crisis. Back at home, he started a process that made the Soviet society less freedom-less. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
Although he'd rather be peaceful, he put the missiles in Cuba, starting the Cuban Missile Crisis. He also made the Soviet society less, um, freedom-less. -
Vietnam War
The War was costly in many ways. It was the southern Vietnam vs. the northern Vietnam. This ended up to have more than 3 million casualties. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
During the crisis, leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviets joined an intense 13 day political and military standoff. On October 22, 1962, president Kennedy told everyone about the missiles in Cuba and told them a plan that might help them. His plan was to make a naval blockade around Cuba and make it clear that the United States is prepared to use military forces to neutralize the threat. Of course this was a huge threat to a brink for a nuclear war so the U.S. could only hope... -
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Lyndon b Johnson
Lyndon b. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States. He took the office after president Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon grew American involvement to the Vietnam war because he thought he was carrying out Kennedy's legacy. -
The SALT II Treaty
The SALT II Treaty was an agreement dealing with limitations and guidelines of nuclear weapons. It was the result of the issues from the SALT I treaty, kind of like a do - over. The SALT II agreement was signed in June 1979 by Carter and Brezhnev. -
The Chernobyl Disaster
The disaster happened at a Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It was an accident that destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor and killed 30 operators and firemen with even more deaths later. The reactor being destroyed caused deadly radiation exposure. This was a bad time in the cold war, 28 people died from ARS a few weeks after the accident. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
Representatives from 11 Soviet republics announced that they don't want to be part of the Soviet Union anymore. They wanted to be independent. Because three of the 15 republics have already declared independence, There was one left, which was Georgia. The once big Soviet Union has fallen. -
The START Treaties
START means Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The Treaty was withe the U.S. and the Russian Federation. The treaty was meant to reduce and limit the offensive arms.
