Cold War Boxing Guide

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Name: ______________________
NATO: 1949
USA
-Marshall Plan: 1947
-Truman Doctrine: 1947
-McCarthyism: 1950s
-U2 Spy Plane: 1960
-NSC-68: 1950
-Korean War: 1950-1953
-JFK assassinated: 1963
-Apollo 11: 1969
-Vietnam War: 1960s -1973
-SALT I & II: 1970s
-Nixon resigns: 1974
West Berlin
-Berlin Blockade: 1948
-Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952
-Berlin Wall: 1961
-Fall of the Wall: 1989
-Re-Unification: 1990
Greece
-Civil War: 1946-1949
Cold War Hot Spots
Warsaw Pact: 1955
Other Allies or Non-Aligned
USSR
-KGB: 1954
-Sputnik: 1957
-U2 Spy Plane : 1960
-SALT I & II: 1970s
-Perestroika & Glasnost: 1980s
-Collapse of USSR: 1989
China
-Communist Revolution: 1949
-Mao Zedong: 1949-1976
-Tiananmen Square: 1989
East Berlin
-Berlin Blockade: 1948
-Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952
-Berlin Wall: 1961
-Fall of the Wall: 1989
-Re-Unification: 1990
Cuba:
-Cuban revolution & Castro: 1959
-Bay of Pigs: 1961
-Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962
Hungary
-Revolt: 1956
-Independence: 1989
Czechoslovakia
-Communist takeover: 1948
-Prague Spring: 1968
Poland
-Solidarity: 1980
Korea (North and South)
-Korean War: 1950-1953
Vietnam (Cambodia and Laos)
-Gulf of Tonkin: 1964
-Nixon & Cambodia: 1970
-US cease fire: 1973
-Fall of Saigon: 1975
Iran
-Shah overthrown: 1979
-Hostage Crisis: 1979-1980
-Iran-Iraq War: 1980
Afghanistan
-Soviet-Afghan War: 1979-1989
1. Berlin – Eastern Europe
Cold War – Eastern Europe
Division of Berlin (Yalta ?Potsdam 1945)
Berlin Blockade 1948
Berlin Airlift: 1948-1952
Berlin Wall 1961
Fall of the Wall: 1989
Re-Unification: 1990
2. Space Race & Nuclear Technology: 1957+
Space Race
Arms Race
1957 Sputnik
Manhattan Project
1945 US ATOMIC Bombs
(choose 1)
1958: NASA
1950s Bikini Atoll - ICBMs
1961: Yuri Gagarin orbits moon
1960s MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction
1969: Apollo 11 Moon Landing
1968 Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
1973-1974: Skylab
1970s SALT I & II
1986 – 1996: Mir Space Station
1980s: Strategic Defense Initiative - “Star Wars”
3. The Fate of the Eastern Bloc – Soviet Satellites (choose 2)
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Imry Nagy & Revolt: 1956
Communist takeover: 1948
People’s Rep. of Poland: 1952
Independence: 1989
Alexander Dubchek
Socialism with a Human Face
Prague Spring: 1968
Pope John Paul II
Velvet Revolution: 1989
Solidarity: 1980 - Lech Walesa
4. Wars in East & South East Asia – Korea & Vietnam (choose 1)
Korea
Vietnam
French Indo-China: 1888+
Japanese Rule: 1910-1945
Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh (Dec of Independence) 1945+
Division along the 38th Parallel: 1945+ (Potsdam)
1st Indo-China War: 1946-1954/Battle of Dien Bien Phu
North invades South: June 1950
Kim IL Sung R. 1945 - 1994
UN Intervention: June 1950 (US NSC-68)
Chinese Intervention: June 1950
Stalemate: 1951-1953 & Armistice: 1953
PM Ngo Dinh Diem (S. Vietnam):
Viet Cong/NLF:
CIA: 1963
Gulf of Tonkin: 1964
Nixon, Cambodia & Vietnamization: 1970s
DMZ:
US cease fire: 1973
Fall of Saigon: 1975
5. Revolutionary China Under Mao Ze Dong (in class)
Civil Wars 1927-1937 and 1945-1949
Nationalists vs. Communists
Communist Revolutionīƒ  Est. of Peoples’ Republic 1949
Mao Zedong: 1949-1976
Great Leap Forward 1956-1958
100 Flowers Movement 1958-1959
Sino-Soviet Split 1966
Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
Gang of Four
Nixon in China – Panda Diplomacy
Deng Xioping: 1978-1990s
4 Modernizations
Tiananmen Square: 1989
WTO 2000
Hu Jintao:2002-2012
Xi Jingping 2012-2022
6. Central Asia in 1979 – Iran & Afghanistan
Iran
(choose 1)
Afghanistan
Persia: 6th century BCE - 1935
Shah Reza Pahlavi: 1941-1979
“White Revolution” & SAVAK
Iranian Revolution: 1979
-Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Shia cleric)
-Revolutionary Guards / Council
Hezbollah
Hostage Crisis: 1979-1980
Iran-Iraq War: 1980-1988
Great Game (Russia vs. GB): 19th Century
King Muhammad Zahir Shah: 1933-1973
1973: Military Coup
1978: Military Coup
Afghan Civil War: 1978-Present?
Soviet-Afghan War: 1979-1989
Mujahedeen / Mujahideen
Soviet Withdrawal: 1987-1989
7. Cuba Under Castro - Viva La Revolution
Spanish American War 1898
Platt Amendment (1903)
Cuban revolution: 1952-1959
July 26th Movement
Fidel Castro: 1959-2008
Nationalizations & Expropriations
Bay of Pigs: 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis: 1962
US Embargo: 1962-Present (sort of)
Raul Castro: 2008-Present
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