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Russian Revolution (1917)
The Russian Revolution was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. During this revolution the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference was the last meeting of World War ll that was held by the "Big Three" head of state. This meeting brought an end to World War ll but started the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. This was because the Soviet Union was trying to block itself from open contact with the west and the states allies. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was drooped during World War ll, by a B-29 bomber. This bomb wiped out about 90 percent of the city and immediately and killed 80,000 people. This was a response from the attack Japan had on the U.S at Pearl Barbour. Three days later a second B-29 dropped an A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 40,000 people. -
Truman Doctraine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War/ -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.The Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city's population. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. -
Soviet bomb test
The Soviet Bomb test was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization , also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States). The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. Both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation policy is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. The United States delivered nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Four years later, on August 9, 1949, the Soviet Union developed its own nuclear weapons. At the time, both sides lacked the means to effectively use nuclear devices against each other. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The army accused Chief Committee Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's. -
Khrushchev Takes over
was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
