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