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noun : cold war

noun : cold war 1 . a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. Cold War :.

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noun : cold war

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  1. noun: cold war 1. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

  2. 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.

  3. Cold War Timeline • The following page list events that are associated with the Cold War

  4. 1946 • Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech

  5. 1947 • Truman Doctrine-US helps Greece-hard military side of containment

  6. 1947 • Marshall Plan announced soft financial side of containment

  7. 1948 • Berlin Blockade-USSR blocks Berlin and we airlift in supplies

  8. 1949 • Moa Zedong take controll of China

  9. 1949 • USSR explodes first nuclear weapon

  10. 1950 • McCarthy with hunts begin

  11. 1950 • North Korea invades South Korea

  12. 1953 • Rosenberg's executed

  13. 1954 • Vietnam splits at 17th

  14. 1957 • First satellite in space, Sputnik launched

  15. 1959 • Fidel overtakes Cuba

  16. 1960 • Soviets shoot down US CIA U2 spy plane

  17. 1960 • Kennedy elected President

  18. 1961 • Bay of Pigs fails

  19. 1961 • Khrushchev puts Berlin Wall up

  20. 1962 • US send more troops to Vietnam

  21. 1963 • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified

  22. 1963 • Kennedy assassinated

  23. 1964 • Golf of Tonkin incident

  24. 1965 • US sends troops to Dominican Republic to fight Communism

  25. 1969 • Apollo 11 lands on moon (Neil Armstrong)

  26. 1970 • Nixon extends war into Cambodia

  27. 1973 • Cease fire in Vietnam

  28. 1973 • US helps overthrow Chile government

  29. 1974 • Egypt and Syria attack Israel

  30. 1974 • Nixon resigns

  31. 1979 • Shah of Iran overthrown- Iran Hostage Crises (66 Americans help hostage for 444 days in Iran) took over Embassy in Tehran.

  32. 1983 • US helps overthrow Grenada

  33. 1983 • Iran Contra affair-arms sold in Iran go towards Contra (member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua) support in Nicaragua

  34. 1986 • Reagan and Gorbachev resolve to remove all nuclear weapons from Europe

  35. 1989 • Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan

  36. 1989 • China puts down democracy revolt- Poland becomes independent

  37. 1989 • Hungary becomes independent

  38. 1989 • November-Wall comes down

  39. 1989 • Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania become independent- free from Soviet control

  40. 1990 • Lithuania independent

  41. 1990 • Yeltsin becomes Russian President.

  42. 1991 • Cold War ends: End of Soviet Union (Russia)

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