-
The Red Scare
The Red Scare is the promotion by a state or society of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. -
Arms Race
The Arms Race was a competition between U.S. and the former Soviet Union for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Play was an American initiative to aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $13 billion to Europe. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany -
Berlin Airlift
The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift, a plane, to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. -
NATO Formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States -
Korean War
North Korea Invades South Korea. North Korea is aided by Communists and South Korea is aided by anti-communists. -
Joseph Stalin dies
Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) -
Nikita Khrushchev comes to power
Nikita Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. -
Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt by the Israel. A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain. -
Space Race
The competition between the U.S. and USSR regarding achievements in the filed of space explore. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 Incident when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was a ban which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground -
JFK Assassination
JFK was assassinated while on a visit to Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder but there has always been speculation that he was not a lone killer and that there may have been communist or CIA complicity. -
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR. -
Carter President
Jimmy Carter became the 39th President of the United States -
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher was a British stateswoman, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and as Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan was a war with insurgent groups known as the mujahideen that fought against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. -
INF Treaty
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of their intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles. -
Velvet Revolution
The Velvet Revolution was a series of peaceful protests in Czechoslovakia that led to the overthrow of the Communist government. -
Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power
Mikhail Gorbachev was the first president of the Soviet Union -
German re-unification
East and West Germany combined -
U.S.S.R. Breakup
U.S.S.R. Breakup was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
