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Cold War - Coggle Diagram

- - - - korean war
  - - - red scare
      - HUAC
- - - - yalta
      - potsdam
    - - telegrams
        
        george kennan
        
        long telegram
    - - greek civil war starts
    - - marshall plan
      - truman doctrine
- - - - 1953
        
        korean war ends
      - Eisenhower
        
        MAD
        
        massive retaliation
        
        new look policy
      - 1954
        
        domino theory
        
        geneva conference
        
        focused on resolving the conflict in Indochina after the First Indochina War involving France, the Viet Minh
        
        geneva accords
        
        Geneva Accords temporarily divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam (led by Ho Chi Minh) and South Vietnam (led by the State of Vietnam)
      - 1955
        
        warsaw pact
        
        frg join NATO
      - 1956 Poland and Hungary Uprisings
        
        fail
        
        ussr use military force
      - 1961
        
        Berlin wall is built
      - 1960
        
        gary powers
        
        u2 spy plane shot down
        
        spying called out
    - - JFK
        
        shot in 1963
      - 1960
        
        cuban revoloution
        
        bay of pigs
        
        us trained cuban exiles try to invade
        
        fails
      - 1962
        
        13 day cuban missile crisis
        
        resoloution
        
        USSR pull out the missiles
        
        they look weak
        
        USA agree to remove the missiles from turkey
        
        keep it a secret
      - 1963
        
        limited test ban treaty
    - - 1968
        
        The Prague Spring
        
        economy was weak
        
        Antonin Novotny, was unpopular.
        
        Some Czechs thought the USA would come to their assistance if they stood up to Moscow.
      - LBJ + Brezhnev
      - President Lyndon B. Johnson inherited the conflict in Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy.
        
        The Gulf of Tonkin Incident and Resolution
        
        On 2 August 1964, the USS Maddox, conducting intelligence operations, engaged with North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin
        
        A second alleged attack occurred on 4 August, though its accuracy remains disputed.
        
        Resoloution
        
        It authorised the President to take “all necessary measures” to repel attacks and prevent further aggression.
        
        a significant expansion of presidential war powers
        
        Operation Rolling Thunder (1965–1968)
        
        A sustained bombing campaign targeting North Vietnamese infrastructure and supply routes.
        
        guerrilla warfare
        
        Tet Offensive
        
        January 1968
        
        series of coordinated attacks across South Vietnam, targeting cities, towns, and US military bases.
        
        offensive was ultimately repelled and resulted in heavy Viet Cong casualties
        
        Johnson’s popularity plummeted, leading him to announce in March 1968 that he would not seek re-election.
- - - - cambodia
        
        khmer rouge
        
        pol pot
    - - Helsinki Accords
        
        3 baskets of agreements
    - - nixon visits china
    - - vietnam war ends
- - - - USSR invade Afghanistan
        
        they support the socialist mahajedeen
    - - US boycott moscow olympics
    - - Reagan
        
        evil empire speech
        
        SDI
        
        Star wars
- - - - 1989
      - informally ends the cold war
      - Shows Gorbachev is willing to negotaiate
      - Bush attends summit
    - - collapse of communism
        
        Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan
        
        Poland and Hungary
        
        Romania
        
        Nicolae Ceausescu
        
        excecuted in may 1990
        
        Czechoslovakia
        
        2 hour strike against government
        
        75% of population join the strike
      - Fall of the berlin wall
        
        8th November 1989
      - Gorbachev’s decision not to use force in the satellite states due to his policies of Glasnost and Perestroika largely encouraged movements of independence.
    - - SOVIET UNION DISSOLVES