The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm LTC Oakland McCulloch

Outline Origins of the Cold War, Global Realignment, Escalation and Crisis, De-escalation, Vietnam and the Brezhnev Doctrine, Thaw and Détente, Second Cold War, End of the Cold War,

The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm Main events (1945–1961)Main events (1962–1991)Specific articlesPrimary participants and other events 1940s: Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Gouzenko Affair Iran Crisis Chinese Civil War Greek Civil War Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade 1950s: Korean War First Indochina War Iranian Coup Guatemalan Coup East German Uprising First Taiwan Strait Crisis Hungarian Revolution Suez Crisis Sputnik Crisis Second Taiwan Strait Crisis Cuban Revolution 1960s: Vietnam War Congo Crisis Sino-Soviet Split U-2 Crisis of 1960 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1960s (continued): Cuban Missile Crisis Erection of the Berlin Wall Overthrow of Sukarno Secret War in Laos Regime of the Colonels in Greece Prague Spring Détente Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1970s: Cambodian Civil War Ping Pong Diplomacy 1972 Nixon Visit to China Overthrow of Allende SALT I Angolan Civil War Mozambican Civil War Third Indochina War SALT II Iranian Revolution 1980s: Soviet-Afghan War Salvadoran Civil War Polish Solidarity Movement Invasion of Grenada Fall of the Berlin Wall Revolutions of s: Dissolution of the USSR Concepts: Communism Capitalism Iron Curtain Containment Truman Doctrine Maoism Revisionism Peaceful coexistence Domino Theory Eisenhower Doctrine Rollback Arms race Nuclear arms race McCarthyism Space Race Kennedy Doctrine Johnson Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine Ostpolitik Nixon Doctrine Wars of national liberation Carter Doctrine Reagan Doctrine Glasnost Perestroika Contemporaneous conflicts: Nicaragua Arab-Israeli Conflict NATO NATO Warsaw Pact Warsaw Pact Non-Aligned Movement People's Republic of China People's Republic of China Other specific articles: Red Scare Bricker Amendment Operation Condor Soviet espionage in US CIA Operation Gladio KGB Stasi European Community Comecon Portal:Cold War Spands 9 Presidents / 12 Administrations 7 Soviet Premiers

The Cold War Protracted geopolitical, ideological and economic struggle Emerged after World War II Between the US and its allies and the USSR and its allies The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm Distrust between the US and USSR at the end of WW II No love loss before WW II Yalta Conference Espionage activity Communism vs. Democracy State Controlled Economy vs. Capitalism Disagreement on International Control of Nuclear Energy Origins of the Cold War,

The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm Global Realignment, Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Blockade & Airlift Soviet Union detonates first atomic bomb Formation of NATO & Warsaw Pact Division of Germany

Escalation and Crisis, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 the Sino-Soviet split in 1960 the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 the Bay of Pigs in 1961 the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm De-escalation, Vietnam & Brezhnev Doctrine installation of the “Hotline” in 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963 The Vietnam War in 1964 The political liberation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 The Brezhnev Doctrine

Thaw and Détente, the Détente period of the Cold War was marked by mediation and relative peace Treaty of Warsaw (between Poland & West Germany) Four-Power Agreement on Berlin (US, UK, France & USSR) Basic Treaty of 1972 (between East & West Germany) The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm

The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm Second Cold War, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Soviet deployment of SS-20 medium range nuclear missiles NATO deployment of 500 cruise & Pershing II missiles Election of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan

The End of the Cold War, Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of USSR, 1985 Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (economic restructuring) Chernobyl Accident, 1986 Peaceful Revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe Fall of the Berlin War, 1989 Desert Shield / Desert Storm Soviet coup attempt and collapse of the Soviet Union, 1991 The Cold War From WW II through Desert Shield / Storm 24 new Countries were formed with the end of the Soviet Union

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