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The Potsdam Conference
To control to defeat Germany- and to talk about post war boundaries and lasting peace lead to the conference. They debated on whats gonna happen with Europe. -
Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb upset the soviet union because they didn't have one didn't know how to make it. The atomic bomb changed the future of warfare because attacks wont be a surprise just fear. -
Iron Curtain
Separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe. -
Molotov Plan
Was the system created by the Soviet Union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
A group of actors that would refuse to answer questions that where being asked by congress . Which lead to the change of Hollywood which put lots of actors on the Black list so none will hire hire them. -
Truman Doctrine
A dramatic change in the U.S. form policy . Suppoting poor countries like giving aid $ food. -
Alger Hiss Case
An ex-commie who was accused for spying for the Soviet Union who worked for the government. It feared the people of communism conspiracy that would take over U.S. -
Marshall Plan
The U. S. program of massive economic assistance in Europe for aid support up to 13billion $ -
Berlin Blockade
Stalin forced allies out of Berlin and starve its people. His military surrounding Berlin no one being able to come in or out. -
The Berlin Air Lift
Berlin was divided into 4 parts . Soviets had ordered to block all access to the west . The U.S. in response they dropped food, medical, and coil since the soviet had blocked the entrie. -
Russian Revolution
The U.S opposes that communism and has confiscated Bank accounts and personal stuff. American troops where sent to fight democratic. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a united fence against the Soviet Union. The U.S. , The U.K., Belgium,Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, and Italy where all in NATO. -
Soviet Bomb Testing
The Soviets stun the world with there own atomic bomb. Tested at the Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Joseph McCarthy was the U.S senator. McCarthyism define the entire era of political presicuation. He claimed that he had a list of 205 commies working in the state department. Which lead to people losing confidence in the Goverment -
Korean War
The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea turn them into communism. North Korea was being supported by the Soviet Union and China. South Korea was supported by the United Nations -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenburgs where accused of having a connection with passing bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. They were convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
Was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviets in response to N.A.T.O the formed thier own alliance which include all of the satellite states that where included with the Soviet Union -
Hungarian Revolution
Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule . Then debate and criticism, a rising tide of unrest and discontent in Hungary broke out into active fighting in October 1956. On November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution, -
U2 Incident
May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot.The U-2 spy plane incident raised tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Soviet Union planted nuclear weapons at Cuba. Which was seized power by Fidel Castro which looked and talked like a commie. JFK plan was to attack The Bay of Pigs to take him down. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The soviet Union wanted to arm Cuba with missiles. Military where preparing for a fall out war. Until there was a meeting between the Soviets and U.S. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Diem, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh. -
Assassination of JFK
The 35th U.S.President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
authorized President Lyndon Johnson to repel any armed attack against the forces of the U.S by the communist government of North Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America’s full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam. Intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S. -
Riots of Democratic convention
In Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
Was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis.His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Assassination of RFK
shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. He was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
Election of Nixon
Richard Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey and is elected president. Two years after losing to Kennedy, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost in a bitter campaign against Edmund G. Brown. Nixon won the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach. -
Kent State
Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. B the conflict in Southeast Asia. In its immediate aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country. -
Nixon visits China
Was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the U.S. and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris, France with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
Reagan elected
He cut taxes, increased defense spending, negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. Reagan, who survived a 1981 assassination attempt, died at age 93 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative , also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. The meeting boded well for the future, as the two men engaged in long, personal talks and seemed to develop a sincere and close relationship. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. When the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased
