Cold+War,+Cause's+and+Events

Jacob Inman

What were the cause's, events, and results of the Cold War?

Thesis: The Cold War was the non-confrontational war between the two superpowers that emerged after World War II over nuclear missiles and spheres of influence and had many events and results that effected both greatly.

Cause's: Events: Results:
 * Arm's Race
 * The fight against Communism spreading throughout all of Europe
 * The "Iron Curtain"
 * The fact that Berlin was in East Germany
 * Truman Doctrine - U.S. aid for Greece and Turkey to resist Communism
 * Marshall Plan - money for repairing war damages in Europe, by U.S.
 * Molotov Plan - same as Marshall but for Soviet territory
 * NATO - Alliances formed between U.S. and Western Europe
 * Warsaw Pact - NATO for Soviets
 * China falls to Communism
 * Berlin Blockade - Soviets tried to make U.S. give up western Berlin; U.S. responded with airlifts of supplies
 * Berlin Wall - to keep East Berliners in from the more prosperous West Berlin
 * Sputnik - Soviet launched first satellite into space
 * U2 spy plane shot down in Soviet territory
 * Bay of Pig's - invasion of Cuba by U.S. to prevent Castro from making it Communist
 * Soviet support to Cuba
 * Cuban Missile Crisis - U.S. set up blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet from placing any missile's that close to U.S. even though they had missiles in Turkey, arguably the climax of the Cold War
 * detante - Soviet and U.S. starts to interact
 * Reagan and Gorbachev discuss the stopping of the arms race
 * People start focusing on rebuilding
 * U.S. and Soviets start to tolerate one anothers actions and even back each other up
 * U.S. did not interfere with Soviet endeavors in Hungary
 * Gorbachev's reforms eventually led to end of Communist Party in Russia

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/coldwar.html

http://www.funfront.net/hist/europe/coldwar.htm