Week Three

Cuban Missile Crisis

Cuba had Soviet missiles placed dangerously near the American mainland, and when Kennedy asked to remove them, Khrushchev agreed to take away the missiles, as long as the Americans would not attack Cuba. The removal of the missiles weakened the Cuban economy and was relying on Soviet power.

MAD
Stands for Mutual Assured Destruction. It is the idea of the attacker and the defender being annihilated by the use of high yield weapons in warfare.

Vietnam War
This is when Vietnam, and other non-Communist countries fought against Russia and other Communist countries to destroy Communism, and preserve Democracy

Détente
A term used to describe the uprising of a war due to war tensions. This is because of the signing of the SALT treaties.

SALT Negotiations

strategic arms limitation talks - Russia and the US spoke about how they will disarm weapons

Iranian Revolution
The overthrowing of an Islamic leader to a Iranian republic with the help of the US

USSR invades Afghanistan
The Soviets invade Afghanistan to make it a socialist country.

Week 1

Creation of the Eastern Bloc
The Eastern bloc is a non-NATO organization, made to oppose the NATO, consisting of 16 countries, led by Russia. The purpose of this is to donate materials among countries, especially Russia.
This happened because the Soviets wanted to be the same as the US in terms of technology

Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain is formed by Stalin from the Soviet Union because Stalin figured that capitalism and Communism could not stand by its self, so it split itself from the UN after converting several countries to Communism.
This happened because the Soviets didn't want to be invaded again after being invaded by Poles, Swedes, French, Germany.

Containment
The United States tried to contain the Soviets by creating alliances with countries and helping resist Soviet advances
This happened because the dispute between the Soviets and the US were worsening, so the US attempted to stop Russia from advancing Communism.

Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is made to support non-Communists by spending more than $400,000,000 aiding Turkey and Greece.
This happened because this action would prevent Communism from spreading.

Marshall Plan
This plan was made to support non-Communists with food and support from the US.
This happened because this action would prevent Communism from spreading.

Berlin Blockade / Airlift
The US and allies wanted Germany to be one nation, but the Soviets responded by taking dominance of West Berlin, blocking all forms of ground transportation, hoping to starve the Germans. In response the allies sent planes *every three minutes* to deliver food. Eventually, the Soviets gave up hold of Berlin.
This happened because the Allies wanted the Germans to rebuild, and reunite while the Allies rebuild.

Week Two

Korean War

Korea, and most of west Asia were divided into sections, and each wanted each others territorty, and this ended up being a war. Russia was after non-communist china, while the Americans and the UN were defending South China.

Sputnik

Russia and the US were competing to see who can go to space first, as described as the space race. Russia managed to make it first, launching the first satellite, Sputnik, into space. This makes Russia slightly superior to the US.

Hydrogen Bomb is created/Arms Race

Russia and the US stockpiled weapons, and nuclear bombs during the Cold war. After the war was over, tensions decreased, and some weapons were disarmed.

Warsaw Pact

Was a collection of 8 communist/socialist countries to come together and form an alliance, similar to NATO. There also included a wall to separate East and West Berlin.

De-Stalinization
After Stalin dies, Isaac Deutscher came to power, and removed all of Stalin's Gulags and converterd Communist people into Socialist people.

U-2 Incident
An American scout plane was sent to Russia, and it was shot down. The Russians embarrased the Americans by saying that they were doing a test flight, and found numerous pictures of war bases and attack points.

Berlin Wall

A little after the Warsaw pact was assigned, Berlin split itself into East Berlin, and West Berlin to avoid starting a war.