Cold War Globalization--Neal Rosendorf--Encyclopedia of the Cold War
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noun: cold war1. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.
Cold War : Term is used to describe the relationship between America
and the Soviet Union 1945 to 1980. Neither side ever fought the other - the consequences would be too
appalling - but they did ‘fight’ for their beliefs using client states who fought for their beliefs on their behalf e.g.
South Vietnam was anticommunist and was supplied by America during the war while North Vietnam was pro-Communist and fought the south (and the Americans) using weapons from communist Russia or communist
China. In Afghanistan, the Americans supplied the rebel Afghans after the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 while they
never physically involved themselves thus avoiding a direct clash with the Soviet Union.
Cold War Timeline
• The following page list events that are associated with the Cold War
1946• Churchill gives “Iron Curtain”
speech
1947• Truman Doctrine-US helps
Greece-hard military side of containment
1947• Marshall Plan announced soft
financial side of containment
1948• Berlin Blockade-USSR blocks
Berlin and we airlift in supplies
1949• Moa Zedong take controll of
China
1949• USSR explodes first nuclear
weapon
1950• McCarthy with hunts begin
1950• North Korea invades South
Korea
1953• Rosenberg's executed
1954• Vietnam splits at 17th
1957• First satellite in space,
Sputnik launched
1959• Fidel overtakes Cuba
1960• Soviets shoot down US CIA
U2 spy plane
1960• Kennedy elected President
1961• Bay of Pigs fails
1961• Khrushchev puts Berlin Wall
up
1962• US send more troops to
Vietnam
1963• Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
ratified
1963• Kennedy assassinated
1964• Golf of Tonkin incident
1965• US sends troops to Dominican
Republic to fight Communism
1969• Apollo 11 lands on moon
(Neil Armstrong)
1970• Nixon extends war into
Cambodia
1973• Cease fire in Vietnam
1973• US helps overthrow Chile
government
1974• Egypt and Syria attack Israel
1974• Nixon resigns
1979• Shah of Iran overthrown- Iran
Hostage Crises (66 Americans help hostage for 444 days in Iran) took over Embassy in Tehran.
1983• US helps overthrow Grenada
1983• Iran Contra affair-arms sold in
Iran go towards Contra (member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua) support in Nicaragua
1986• Reagan and Gorbachev resolve
to remove all nuclear weapons from Europe
1989• Soviets withdraw from
Afghanistan
1989• China puts down democracy
revolt- Poland becomes independent
1989• Hungary becomes
independent
1989• November-Wall comes down
1989• Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and
Romania become independent- free from Soviet control
1990• Lithuania independent
1990• Yeltsin becomes Russian
President.
1991• Cold War ends: End of Soviet
Union (Russia)