Relacionar Columnas Cold War EventsVersión en línea A way to learn and study the events of the Cold War. Good Luck! por Katie Moore 1 Chinese Revolution 2 Iron Curtain 3 Berlin Wall 4 Soviet Block 5 Bay of Pigs 6 Cuban Missile Crisis 7 NATO 8 Yalta Conference 9 Hungarian Revolution 10 Fall of the Soviet Union 11 Warsaw Pact 12 Chinese Civil War 13 Truman Doctrine 14 Berlin Blockade 15 Potsdam Conference 16 Korean War 17 Struggle over Germany 18 Berlin Airlift 19 Sputnik 20 Vietnam War 21 Afghanistan 22 Arms Race 23 Marshall Plan The soviet union's weakening economy along with great discrepancies between worker's wages and the privileges their leaders enjoyed, led the breakup of the soviet union and became Communism. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war. The Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that installed communist regimes after WWII and were dominated by the Soviet Union. treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania The struggle created by the split of Germany into 4 zones. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries. First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. A attempt to stop democratic rebels in Afghanistan by the Soviets. US aided the South (non-communist); led to sizeable, passionate, and sometimes violent protests, especially as the war went on. The people of Hungary start a revolution to overthrow Communist government. The US does nothing. Khrushev sends soviet troops to suppress the revolution. War between communist Mao Zse Tong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift. The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. A cultural revolution for equal rights and communist ideals. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons. A fortified wall surrounding West Berlin, Germany, built in 1961 to prevent East German citizens from traveling to the West. Its demolition in 1989 symbolized the end of the Cold War. This wall was both a deterrent to individuals trying to escape and a symbol of repression to the free world.
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