Chapter 20 Lesson 3
Cold War Time Line
1945 -World War II ends
1946 - The Soviet Union begins to dominate the countries of Eastern Europe
1948 - The United States implements the Marshall Plan
1948 - The United States begins the Berlin Airlift
1949 - NATO is formed
1950 - The Korean War begins
1955 - The Warsaw Pact is formed
1957 - The Soviet Union launches Sputnik
1958 - NASA is created
1960 - The Soviet Union shoots down an American U2 spy plane
1961 - The Berlin Wall is erected
1961 - The United States sends its first military personnel to Vietnam
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 - President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22nd
1972 - President Nixon makes an unprecedented trip to Communist china
1972 - SALT I treaty with the Soviet Union is completed
1987 - INF treaty is signed
1989 - The Berlin Wall is opened
1989 - Thousands are killed in a protest in Chin's Tiananmen Square
1993 - The break up of the Soviet Union is completed: the Cold War ends
1998 - The war in Bosnia ends
Cold War Vocabulary
Third World - the group of developing countries in the world not linked with the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Capitalism - an economic system characterized by private ownership of property and free enterprise
Communism - an economic system in which all goods are owned jointly, in the Soviet Union, this developed into a government in which all social and economic policy decisions were made by a single party
Cold War - an intense hostile rivalry during the second half of the 20th century between Communist nations, particularly the Soviet Union, and the democratic nations of the world, led by the United States
Containment - the foreign policy of the United States designed to stop the growth of communism
Iron Curtain - an imaginary line that separated the countries in Western Europe from the countries under Soviet domination in Eastern Europe
Truman Doctrine - A 1947 pronouncement by President Truman that offered aid to the government of Greece and Turkey in their fight against Soviet influence
Marshall Plan - A program implemented by the United States in 1948 to help bolster the economies of European countries trying to recover after World War II
Blockade - a military strategy that attempts to isolate a country by preventing the movement of its people and goods
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - A mutual defense alliance established in 1949 between the United States, Canada and several Western European countries designed to safeguard Western Europe against Soviet attack
Warsaw Pact - a mutual defense organization established in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries
Nuclear arms race - the development and warehousing of weapons of mass destruction by the U. S. and the Soviet Union
Sputnik - a Russian space satellite launched in 1957 that caused the United States to reassess its role as a world leader in technology and develop its own space agency.
Berlin Wall - A barrier surrounding the German city of West Berlin, constructed by the Soviet Union in 1961 to stop people from fleeing Communist East Berlin
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - an organization in the United States responsible for gathering information and facilitating overseas communications
Bay of Pigs - an unsuccessful attempt by U.S. backed Cuban exiles to overthrow Communist Cuban leader Fidel Castro in April 1961
Domino theory - the fear that the spread of communism would run rampant among neighboring counties if one were to fall under Communist influence
D?tente - The relaxation of tensions between nations
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) - Agreement between the United States and Soviet Union intended to limit the proliferation of long-range nuclear weapons
Contra - A member of a military group that fought the Sandinista government in Nicaragua
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - a program proposed by President Reagan in 1983 that was intended to provide the United States with a space-based defense system to guard against possible nuclear attacks.
Intermediate Nuclear Force Treaty (INF) - an agreement signed by President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev in 1987 that called for the elimination of medium-range nuclear weapons
Glasnost - a policy of political openness in Soviet society instituted by leader Mikhail Gorbachev
Perestroika - the restructuring of the failing Soviet economy, allowing for limited free enterprise under Mikhail Gorbachev
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