Relier Pairs Cold War EventsVersion en ligne A way to learn and study the events of the Cold War. Good Luck! par Katie Moore 1 Berlin Wall 2 Arms Race 3 Berlin Blockade 4 Korean War 5 Soviet Block 6 Warsaw Pact 7 NATO 8 Vietnam War 9 Marshall Plan 10 Truman Doctrine 11 Chinese Revolution 12 Afghanistan 13 Sputnik 14 Bay of Pigs 15 Cuban Missile Crisis 16 Hungarian Revolution 17 Iron Curtain 18 Chinese Civil War 19 Struggle over Germany 20 Berlin Airlift 21 Fall of the Soviet Union 22 Potsdam Conference 23 Yalta Conference 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 people of Hungary start a revolution to overthrow Communist government. The US does nothing. Khrushev sends soviet troops to suppress the revolution. 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. Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. War between communist Mao Zse Tong and nationalist Chaing-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. 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. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. 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. 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. US aided the South (non-communist); led to sizeable, passionate, and sometimes violent protests, especially as the war went on. 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war. 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. A cultural revolution for equal rights and communist ideals. 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. An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. The Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries that installed communist regimes after WWII and were dominated by the Soviet Union. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology. The struggle created by the split of Germany into 4 zones. 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. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons.
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