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Buffer States of the USSR
Enlarged the USSR and came out of the war. A protective place for the USSR -
Atomic Bomb
Dropped on Japan beginning of Cold War -
U.S Aid to Greece
To support the econmies and militaries also keep them from going communist -
U.S Aid to Turkey
To support the econmies and militaries also to keep them from going communist -
Truman Doctrine
Was to counter Soviet geopolictical expansion during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
Was an American iniative to aid the Western Europe -
NATO Established
Was to defen each other from the possiblity of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation -
USSR gets Atomic Bomb
tested their first Atomic Bomb called First Lightning -
Communist wins China
Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong declared the cration of the PRC -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border -
Coup in Iran
the Shah begin gathering in the street, and another coup begins -
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Coup in Guatemela
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954 -
Communist Angola
During the Cold War, there was a contest for influence in Africa, between the US and Western powers on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries on the other. -
Warsaw Pact formed
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
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Beginning of troops in Vietnam
Catholic nationalist Ngo Dinh Diem emerges as the leader of South Vietnam, with U.S. backing, while Ho Chi Minh leads the communist state to the north. -
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Hungary (Rebellion)
was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
Suez Canal Crisis
The Suez Canal is considered to be the shortest link between the east and the west due to its unique geographic location; it is an important international navigation canal linking between the Mediterranean sea at Port said and the red sea at Suez -
Sputnik
The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 183 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. -
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Cuba (Missile Crisis)
was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
China explodes Atomic Bomb
The first Chinese nuclear test was conducted at Lop Nur on October 16, 1964. It was a tower shot involving a fission device with a yield of 25 kilotons. -
Coup in Chile
when a US-backed coup led by General Augusto Pinochet ousted the democratically elected president, Salvador Allende. He died in the palace on that day. -
End of troops in Vietnam
Under the provisions of the Accords, U.S. forces were completely withdrawn. Unfortunately, this did not end the war for the Vietnamese and the fighting continued until April 1975 when Saigon fell to the communists. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
War in El Salvador
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. -
Evil Empire Speech
The phrase evil empire was first applied to the Soviet Union in 1983 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities -
Star Wars (S.D.I.)
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
Iran Contra Affair
was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders -
Sandinistas rise up in Nicaragua
They were pro-communist and the United States were not happy with that because they were close to us -
Fall of the USSR
Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism.
