Cold War etc

• Germany and Berlin divided into four sections at the Yalta conference
• One president of the USA throughout the Cold War was J F Kennedy
• One leader of the USSR throughout the Cold War was Nikita Khrushchev
• The USAs ideological system is capitalism
• The USSRs ideological system was communism
• NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• The name of the US foreign policy in the Cold War was containment
• The Korean War is often referred to as the seesaw war
• The Korean War began

  25th June 1950
• 750000 soldiers invaded South Korea starting the Korean War
• The Berlin Wall was built

  1961
• People tried to cross the Berlin Wall by zip line
• Yuri Gargaria was the first person to journey into outer space
• Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin were the first people to walk on the moon
• The Cuban Missile Crisis was

  1962
• Some consequences of the Cuban Missile Crisis were relations between the superpowers improved and the red phone hotline was made
• The USA got involved in the Vietnam War because of the containment policy
• The USA lost the Vietnam War was that Vietnam had support from China and the USSR
• The USSR collapsed and ended the Cold War

  25th of December 1991
• China is in a new Cold War with USA
• Cold War


  A conflict between 1945-1991 and a period of tension between the US and USSR with no attacks launched
• Capitalism


  An economic system where private actors own and control property in accord with there laws
• Communism


  A system of social organisation in which property is owned by the community and you receive what you need
• Containment


  Geopolitical strategic policy by the USA to prevent the spread of communism
• NATO


  Intergovernmental military alliance between countries
• Yalta Conference


  1945
• Berlin Blockade begins


  1948
• Constructions of Berlin Wall

  1961
• Marshall Plan


  1948
• Korean War


  1950
• Cuban Missile Crisis


  1962
• End of Vietnam War

  1975
• Neil Armstrong lands on moon


  1969
• Fall of Berlin Wall

  1989
• President Eisenhower established NASA and this is a successful organisation


  29th July 1958
• President Kennedy delivers famous speech saying the goal is that the US will land on the moon by the end of the decade


  12th September 1962
• The Apollo 11 mission landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first men on the moon and this was a huge propaganda boost and is most remembered today


  16th July 1969
• USSR launch the first ever satellite sputnik into space and this starts the space race


  4th October 1957
• USA launch flopnik


  6th December 1957
• Yuri Gargarin became the first human in space


  12th April 1961