Important Events of The Cold War: 1945-1991

  • China's Civil War

    China's Civil War
    War started over wanting egitimacy as the government of China.
  • WW2 Ended

    WW2 Ended
    The war ended
  • United Nations

    United Nations
    An orginization that helped improve the economy, social progrms, and human rights
  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill decription about the Soviet Union
  • Turman Doctrine

    Turman Doctrine
    A principle stating that the US should help out countries and people who were threatened by the Soviet Union.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    A plan where Americans gave aid to Western Europe for economic support to help rebuild after WW1 ended
  • Berlin Aircraft

    Berlin Aircraft
    Military oginization that flew into Weat Berlin bringing them their needs and good after the supply lines were cut off.
  • NATO

    NATO
    European military alliance and North American democracies that provided strength to international ties between member states
  • USSR'S first Atomic Bomb Test

    USSR'S first Atomic Bomb Test
    First Solviet nuclear bomb test.
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    War between United Nation, supported by the US and the democratic republic of Korean
  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb
    Weapon deriving large portion of its energy from fusion
  • Dewight D. Eisenhower

    Dewight D. Eisenhower
    American politician who served as the 34th president.
  • Stalins Death

    Stalins Death
    Died from cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Fidel Castro took over Cuba

  • End of Korean War

  • SEATO

    SEATO
    International organization for collective defence in South and East Asia
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    Defence treaty among Soviet Union and 7 Soviet Union satelite states in Central and East Europe.
  • Vietnam War

    Conflict between the US, France, and Vietnam against Vienamese communist independent movement.
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    Eisenhower Doctrine
    Speech by president Dewight, message to the congress on the Middle East situation.
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Series of Soviet satellites
  • Mutually Assured Destruction Plan

    Mutually Assured Destruction Plan
    doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
  • Francis Gary Powers

    American pilot whoes plane was shut down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs
    1500 armed Cubans landed in Bahiade Chino to invade Cuba, was supported bu the US government and was unsuccessful
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    Barrier that seperated East and West Berlin, was built bu the government of East Germany to keep East Berlin from invading West Berlin
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Hottest period of the Cold War, with a confrontation between the US and Soviet Union over the presence of missile sites in Cuba
  • JFK shot and killed

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    American poltician who served at the 35th president
  • Lyndon Johnsom

    Lyndon Johnsom
    Leader of the Democratic party in the 20th centry and was the 36th president
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Was vice president under Eisenhower, and the 37th president who resigned after Watergate Scandal