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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine happened when the US gave Greece and Turkey $400 million in aid to prevent the spread of communism to other countries. They enforced containment to block the Soviets attempt to spreading communism by creating alliances and supporting the weaker countries such as Greece and Turkey. The Truman Doctrine was a success. This also involves the proxy war where two countries are not directly fighting against each other, they are indirectly fighting. The significance to the Cold War -
Rosenberg Spy Case
The Rosenberg Spy Case happened when Ethel and Julius were arrested because they were convicted of conspiring to steal designs for America’s atomic bomb and then delivering them back to Soviet secret agents. There were high radioactivity levels because of America’s secret atomic bomb research program that were detected. The Rosenberg’s had protested their innocence, but they late sentenced to death for stealing atomic secrets. This execution said to be the most controversial case of the Cold War -
Fidel Castro come to Power in Cuba
Fidel Castro was the first person in the whole western hemisphere to establish a communist state and overthrow military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. He was the commander in chief of Cuba. Castro was one to criticize political and economic freedoms. Fidel Castro also despised the US especially in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion which all happened in a result of the Cold War. -
The Berlin Wall Goes Up
The Berlin Wall was put up as a symbol of the Cold War. The purpose of it was to put a barrier in between East and West Berlin to keep the fascists from Western Berlin from coming into East Germany. The German Communist Party thought that they should be able to cross the border or the wall whenever they wanted to. Some people caused a hassle and brought hammers to chisel away at the wall, while others walked through freely. But Khrushchev wanted to stop the flow of emigrants through their count -
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty began when the Soviet Union and the United States limited Anti-Ballistic Missile strategic nuclear offensive and defensive systems. There were two rounds of mutual conferences and corresponding international treaties. This all had to do with the arms race in who could develop the better weapons, nuclear weapons, and hydrogen bombs. The Soviets and Americans didn’t have symmetrical weapons systems at all; neither did they have strategic equivalence. One would -
US Sends a Man to the Moon
John F. Kennedy set a goal to safely send an American to the moon before the decade ended. This is what started the space race between the US and the Soviet Union. He knew that this would be a very challenging task, but he knew that if he were to accomplish this, then the US would have lead over the Soviet Union. The Apollo 11 was designed to go forward with and complete Kennedy’s goal. The Cold War relates to this because of the fact that the war was between US and Soviets.
