Question by JAZZY VEE: What were the major turning points in the development of the Cold War?
please help! I need to finish this packet. I’m almost done.
And if you don’t know please send the links so I can find it..
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Answer by Distant Traveler
Russian occupation of East Europe after WW2
Chinese proxy war in Korea
Russian detonates an atomic bomb
Partitioning of Germany
Cuban missile crises
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Michael N says
Civil war in Greece; Truman Doctrine
Soviet atomic bomb
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
Berlin airlift
Chinese Revolution; Mccarthy era
Death of Stalin
Outbreak of Korean War; Soviet boycott of UN
Death of Stalin
Invasion of Hungary
Sputnik
Cuban Revolution
1960 election; missle gap
U2
Berlin Wall
Sino-Soviet border war
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missle Crisis
Limited Test-Ban Treaty
Ouster of Krushchev
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Invasion of Checoslovakia
SALT I & II
Nixon visit to China
Golpe de estado in Chile
U.S. defeat in Vietnam
Ethiopian civil war
Angolan civil war
Invasion of Afghanistan; Olympic boycott (1980)
Invasion of Granada
START
Star Wars
Nicaragua, El Salvador
Perostrokya
Failed coup d'etat in USSR
Soviet defeat in Afganistan
Fall of Berlin Wall
Breakup of Soviet Union
*()()() FurElise()() says
China turning Communist
Sputnik
Soviet Union + US "arms race"
Threat of nuclear weapons
Cuba (Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs,etc)
Soviet Union setting up missiles in Latin America
Oh dear, I really should know more…..the AP US History test is in a few weeks *shoots self*
Lamont Cranston says
They were slowly winning, until Russia invaded Afghanistan, then ran into Reagan.
G Mac says
china going communist
each side getting bigger, better nuclear weapons.
gulf of tonkin
bay of pigs and Cuban missile crisis
development of ICBM's by both the US and USSR starting MAD.
some of the bigger ones.