Cold War Timeline Assignment (Due Monday 4/17/18)
Your task is to explain the cold war by picking out 10 cold war events from the list below and explain their importance in the cold war. You will need to: (1) identify key terms by date, (2) place key terms into correct chronological order, and (3) analyze the significance of each concept by examining how each contributed to the evolution of the Cold War (This should likely take a few sentences to do correctly). Basically, you will need to explain the effect the event had on the cold war and why it was important enough to put in your top ten.
Cold War Events:
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1. Yalta Conference 2. German Unification 3. Joseph Stalin dies 4. SALT Treaty 5. Berlin Wall 6. Nixon visits China 7. Iron Curtain 8. Marshall Plan 9. Korean War begins
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10. Vietnam 11. Bay of Pigs Invasion 12. Rosenberg Spy Case 13. Yalta Conference 14. Berlin Airlift 15. Cuban Missile Crisis 16. Truman Doctrine 17. Eisenhower Doctrine 18. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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19. Mikail Gorbechev comes to power 20. Nakita Kruschev comes to power 21. United Nations 22. U-2 Incident 23. Rosenberger’s H-bomb 24. Sputnik (space race) 25. Non-Proliferation Treaty 26. Perestroika and Glasnost 27. Second Red Scare (McCarthyism) |