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The Bolsheviks overthrew the Tsarist monarchy, leading to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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The classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
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The notional barrier separating the former Soviet block and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe.
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A conference between the UK, US, and USSR, concerning the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its borders, and War territory.
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The US detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scaring Japan into surrender.
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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.
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An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
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A group of Hollywood actors who refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, citing the first amendment, and spent time in prison for contempt of Congress
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an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control in response to the unification of Western Germany.
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The U.S. Aid sent through planes to the blockaded Berlin, dropping food and supplies to the trapped Germans, until the blockade was lifted.
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An intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in.
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Began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. The United States came to South Korea's aid.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Jewish United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government through the electric chair
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the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
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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.
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The 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.
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An alliance created by the Soviet Union and its Satellites in response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.
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American U2 plane shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile where CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia.
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a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
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The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza.
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Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
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The gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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A campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, names after the Vietnamese New Year, when the first major attacks took place.
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On Thursday, April 4, 1968, King was staying in room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. King had gone out onto the balcony and was standing near his room when he was struck at 6:01 p.m.
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presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight PDT at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.
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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.
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a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations; the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland.
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The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, where former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee.
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Four Kent State University students were killed and nine injured when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire during a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War.
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An important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China.
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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.
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the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
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Ronald Reagan, a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989.
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Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address.
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a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race.
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Speech held by 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.
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As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
