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Yalta Confrence
Stalin Roosevelt and Churchill meet-Each leader is going to have a very different idea on what to do with the world. This was important because it was pretty much the start of the cold war. -
Iron Curtain
"Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. This was important because to showed the separation of the world. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. This is important because it helped the people who had nothing to do with communism but were still affected greatly. -
Marshall Plan
United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. This was significant because it showed that the united states was willing to help allies. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. This was important because it made it difficult for America to get to their parts of Berlin. -
Berlin Air lift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain control. the blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city. This was important because people were starving. -
Arms Race
This is important because Russia and the USA were trying to build the atomic bomb before the other. They belived that the first to have it would win the war. -
Forming of NATO
In 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This was important to stop the expansion of communism. -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. This was important because Korean war was communist, so it was another war against communism. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the soviet union from the 1920s to his death. This played a major role because after this everything realted to Stalins leadership was erased. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. This was important because alliences came to together and formed a pact to help stop the war. -
Vietnam War
Known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America. This was important because it was during the cold war and the communist allies were with the Northern part of Vietnam and the southern part wasn't communist. -
Spunik
The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public; President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. Although Sputnik was itself harmless, its orbiting scared the people of the US. This was important because it caused the US to put more focus towards the space race. -
Space Race
The Russians and Americans wanted to be the first people in space. Russia launched sputnik which was the first thing to orbit the earth. This was important because it feared America that they were being watched from space. -
u-2 incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot. This was important because Gary Powers (the pilot of the u-2 plane) was taken prisoner, but they traded him for one of the soviets spy's so they got Powers back. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken -
Berlin Wall
This was a huge wall separating east and west Germany. This was significant because it showed how far west Germany was willing to go for communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily, thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted. This was important because it could of been the end of the world if it turned into a nuclear war. -
INF treaty
agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, between 500–5,500 km. This was a big deal because it didn't allow them to use nuclear weapons. -
German Unification
The Berlin wall was torn down. It was created to separate east and west Germany. It played a major roll because west Germany was communist and east Germany wasn't so this caused the wall to be built, and the west germans were pretty much trapped there
