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Cold War
United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out most of the city. -
Berlin Blockage
The Soviet Union attempted to limit the powers of France, USA and Great Britain to travel to sectors of Berlin by the Berlin Blockage. The blockage was one of the most major clashes of the Cold War. -
NATO
The United States and 11 other Western Nations to formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) because of the idea of possible communist expansion. The treaty was primarily a security pact of Western nations joining forces , stating that a military attack against any of the signatories would be considered an attack against them all. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army went across, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. The invasion was the first action of Cold War -
Warsaw Pact
Formed in response to the NATO treaty, The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria . The member states would come to the defense of any member state that is attacked by outside forces. -
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro a cuban nationalist, took his guerilla army and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista. The CIA and the US state department attempted to remove Castro from power. -
The U2 incident
American U-2 Spy plane was shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union.he U-2 spy plane was the brainchild of the Central Intelligence Agency. -
Berlin Wall
The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin.The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The US President John Kennedy told Americans about the presence of missiles and stated he would put a naval blockade around Cuba. He said that the US was prepared to use force for the threat. -
Vietnam War
Lasted from 1954 to 1973. The United Stated and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization joined with Republic of South Vietnam to go against communist forces. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Iranian students demonstrating outside of US embassy take 90 people hostage including 66 Americans. 52 US citizens were held hostage for 444 days. -
Iran- Contra Affair
In an attempt to improve Iran-American relations, Israel would d ship weapons to a moderate, politically influential group of Iranians opposed to Ayatollah Khomeni; the U.S. would reimburse Israel with those weapons and receive payment from Israel. The current president at the time Ronald Reagan stated in 1986 that transactions had occurred but the US did not trade arms for hostages. In March of 1987 he admitted that the transaction did not begin as trading arms for hostages but ended that way. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The East German Communist party announced citizens were free to cross the wall. Today the wall remains a symbol or landmark of the Cold War . -
Persian Gulf War
Iran invades Kuwait. Iran's leader Sadam Hussein invades Kuwait in order to manage a debt obtained from war with Iraq -
Cold War
The Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. This marked the end of the Soviet Union. -
NAFTA
Bill Clinton signs North American Free Trade Agreement into law. NAFTA, a trade pact between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, eliminated most tariffs and trade restrictions between the three nations.
