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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet atomic bomb project 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.
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The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2nd, 1945.
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 1945, respectively.
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The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 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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The Early Cold War, was the beginning of a long and uneventful fight between America and the Soviet Union.
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12th, 1947 and further developed on July 12th, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey.
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The Marshall Plan was 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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U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This effort, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin.
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An American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
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The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
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The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. The film was directed by John Berry.
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The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on June 25th, 1950. When North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.
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The Eisenhower era of the 1950s was a time of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity.
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government.
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was 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 conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, it was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War.
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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.
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The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellites.
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from October 23rd to November 10th, 1956.
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1st, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace.
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1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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The Kennedy Era consisted of tragedies.
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The Berlin Wall was put up to prevent the fleeing of Berlin citizen that were divided by German Democratic.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between America and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missiles.
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Arrest and assassination.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas.
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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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Congress passed this giving President Johnson permission to take action on securing southeast Asia.
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the gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign
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One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
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the title of a 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.
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Civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Mortally wounded 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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Joint invasion by five Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland.
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National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party
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The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, elected president.
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Important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination.
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President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam.
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Was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam.
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American politician and actor elected president.
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Star Wars
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US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier
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East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in city's relations with the West.
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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 1991.
