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