Download Cold War Events

1945
• YALTA CONFERENCE- PLANS FOR POST-WAR EUROPE (ITALY), ROOSEVELT ATTENDS FOR U.S.
• TRUMAN
• ROOSEVELT DIES IN APRIL, REPLACED BY HARRY TRUMAN
• NO KNOWLEDGE OF SOVIET RELATIONS, ATOMIC BOMBS, ETC…
• BOMBS-ONCE GERMANY SURRENDERS, OPTIONS ARE LIMITED TO STOP JAPAN
• GERMANY
• DIVIDED INTO 4 ZONES AT POTSDAM CONFERENCE (CITY OF BERLIN DIVIDED)
1946
• WINSTON CHURCHILL
• GIVES HIS “IRON CURTAIN” SPEECH
• CONTAINMENT
• PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM
• DOMINO THEORY
1947
• TRUMAN DOCTRINE
• HIS FOREIGN POLICY PLAN TO GIVE $ TO COUNTRIES RESISTING SOVIET INFLUENCE
•
IN PARTICULAR THREAT WERE TURKEY & GREECE
• MARSHALL PLAN
• $13 BILLION TO REBUILD WESTERN EUROPE (MORE LIKE $130 BILLION TODAY)
• FURTHER PREVENT THE APPEAL OF SOVIET UNION
1948
• BERLIN BLOCKADE
• SOVIETS ALLOWED NO TRAFFIC INTO THEIR “SIDE” OF BERLIN
• LATER LED TO THE CREATION OF A PHYSICAL BORDER
• BERLIN AIRLIFT
• 15 MONTHS- 2 MILLION TONS OF SUPPLIES WERE DROPPED ON BERLIN
• MOSTLY FUEL & FOOD
• “CANDY BOMBERS”
1949
• NATO
• RESPONSE TO SOVIETS CLOSING OFF BERLIN, SHOWING THEY INTENDED TO BE HOSTILE
• NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
• CHINA
• REBELLION ENDS WITH CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER MAO ZEDONG
• PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC)
• SOVIET UNION
1950
•KOREAN WAR (1950-1953)
•JAPANESE SPLIT KOREA BETWEEN SOVIETS & AMERICANS WHEN
THEY SURRENDERED
•38TH PARALLEL- DIVISION BETWEEN N. KOREA & S. KOREA
•NORTH (COMMUNIST) INVADES THE SOUTH
KIM IL-SUNG
1948-1994
KIM JONG-IL
1994-2011
KIM JONG-UN
2011-PRESENT
1952
•U.S. EXPLODES A HYDROGEN BOMB
•“ARMS RACE” IS IN FULL SWING!
1953
•BRINKMANSHIP: “TAKE THE SITUATION TO THE “BRINK” OF
DISASTER TO GET THE ADVANTAGE
1955
•WARSAW PACT: EASTERN EUROPEAN RESPONSE TO NATO
• “COLLECTIVE DEFENSE” FOR SOVIETS & THEIR SATELLITE NATIONS
1958
• FIDEL CASTRO OVERTHROWS BATISTA IN CUBA
• CUBA OFFICIALLY COMMUNIST
REMEMBER CUBA IS ONLY 90 MILES FROM U.S. SOIL!
CASTRO IN POWER 1959-2008, NOW IS BROTHER RAUL.
1960
•U2 INCIDENT: AMERICAN SPY PLANE SHOT DOWN BY SOVIETS
•PILOT LANDED AND WAS CAPTURED
•NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (NEW SOVIET LEADER)
•CALLED OFF A VISIT WITH TRUMAN
BUTTER BATTLE BOOK
•DR SEUSS BRINGS THE ARMS RACE TO LIFE…
1961
•BAY OF PIGS INVASION
• FAILED US INVASION TO OVERTHROW CASTRO IN CUBA
• PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAD JUST TAKEN OFFICE
• THE CIA TRAINED AND ARMED 1400 CUBAN EXILES AND ATTACKED
•BERLIN WALL IS BUILT!
1962
•CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
• US HAD STATIONED NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN TURKEY
• SOVIETS HAD NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN CUBA
• KENNEDY ANNOUNCES A BLOCKADE- SOVIETS THREATEN NUCLEAR WAR!
• CLOSEST CALL IN THE ENTIRE COLD WAR…
1965
• US TROOPS SENT TO VIETNAM
• VIETNAM SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS (LIKE KOREA ALL OVER AGAIN!)
• NORTH BACKED BY CHINA- COMMUNIST
• SOUTH BACKED BY THE US
• US TROOPS STAY UNTIL 1974…
1972
•S.A.L.T.
• STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TREATY
• DEAL SLOWS DOWN ARMS RACE
• (PRESIDENT NIXON)
1989
•NEW SOVIET LEADER: MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
•BERLIN WALL COMES DOWN!
1991
•COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
•GORBACHEV PROMISES FREE SPEECH AND OPEN ELECTIONS
• SATELLITE NATIONS GAIN INDEPENDENCE