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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a revolution that led to the end of the tsarist autocracy and the making of communism in the soviet union and a new form of government led by Vladimir Lenin. -
Iron curtain
The iron curtain was when the soviet union invaded parts of Europe to have it as blockade between Russian and the western allies from its satellites and country. -
Postdam Confrence
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting of the leaders of the Big three states, Winston Churchill , Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin. While Churchill and Truman wanted political freedom and Democratic Governments throughout post war Europe, Stalin wanted to rule Europe and have communism, This disagreement caused more tension between the soviet union and the US. -
The atomic bomb- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first nuclear bombing and they annihilated those two cities and cause the Japanese to surrender against America. These two bombings cause The soviet union to be worried, because it showed Truman's willingness to use nukes in war, which would make the soviets army useless since they had not had nukes at this time. -
Hollywood 10
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.
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Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically given to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
Doctrine that provided support to Greece and Turkey to keep them from falling to communism. The US provided economical, political and military aid to the countries to keep them from being communist. This doctrine is often said to be the start of the cold war between the US and USSR. -
Berlin airlift
In response to the Berlin blockade made by the soviets, 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 plan to help Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies and cities after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.They blocked off all ways into there part of Berlin and didn't let anyone in or out. -
Alger hiss case
The Alger hiss case was a trial against Alger hiss because he was accused of being a spy for the soviets, he was a member of the US government and he ended up being convicted of perjury and sentenced to 5 years in prison. -
soviet bomb test
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
NATO
NATO is a military alliance between America and other western allies that was made during the cold war for protection against the soviets. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea . The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of battles along the border. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the North. -
Rosenberg trial
The Rosenberg trial was a trial for the case on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were accused of trying to send bomb plans to the soviets. They were eventually convicted and sentenced to death by electric chair. -
Army McCarthy hearings
The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief committee counsel Cohn of pressuring the Army to give treatment to Schine, a former McCarthy aide and a friend of Cohn's. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Geneva conference
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 -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet run states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Hungarian revolution
The Hungarian revolution was a nationwide revolt or protest against Hungary government because of its soviet based policies, The soviet union got into the revolution to stop the Hungarians from overthrowing there soviet government. -
U2 incident
The U2 incident was when a United states spy p-lane was shot down while in Soviet airspace, At first the US tried to cover up what the plane was for, but the Soviets had the captured pilot and pictures of Russian military bases so it showed that the US was spying on the Soviets. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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 revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a wall that physically divided the communist east and the US west sections of Berlin. It showed the big differences and the lack of freedom under communism. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a tense military and political standoff that lasted 13 days, the soviets put nuclear missiles on Cuba which was just 90 miles away from the US shores, Soviets leader offered that if the US doesn't invade Cuba that they will take off the missiles and that is what resolved the Cuban missile crisis but it made Cuban US affairs more tense because Fidel Castro was a soviet supporter. -
Assasinantion of Diem
The assassination of Ngo Ding Diem who was a south Vietnamese politician and his brother was a CIA assassination led by General Minh that the US approved of, he was killed by a group of soldiers and while his death caused celebration in South Vietnam, it also led to political chaos in south Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
John F Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald in Texas. JFK's death led to Lyndon Johnson becoming president of the US. -
Tonkin gulf resolution
The US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Lyndon Johnson to do anyhting he felt was necessary to retaliate and to keep international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation rolling thunder
Operation rolling thunder was continuous bombing for 9 months on the north Vietnamese army and Viet Cong, it was used to stop the flow of men and materials into south Vietnam and to destroy north Vietnamese transportation system. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, started by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the South Vietnamese Army, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. It was meant to start rebellions in south Vietnam and slow down US involvement in the Vietnam war. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon won the election for many reason but mostly because of his success in foreign affairs.People were hoping he would end the Vietnam war. The election of Nixon made it be a new conservative movement in the government after having a democratic president. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was brought to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead that evening. His death caused a lot of shock all around the world and anger. Immediate violence and riots happened that night which caused more struggles in the US. -
The assassination of RFK
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized. It caused a lot of sadness because his brother was killed only five years earlier. The killing made many Americans think that violence and killing was a permanent thing happening in the US. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland. The soviet invasion was to halt reformist trends which it did but at the same time had consequences for the communists. -
Riots of Democratic convention
In 1968, at the Democratic National 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. The main reason for these riots was the disagreements about the Vietnam war. -
Kent state
there was a rebellion at Kent state which led to the killing of four unarmed college students and injuring many more. The college students were protesting the Vietnam war, this shooting caused closing of colleges all around the countries. -
Nixon visits china
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China was an important strategic and diplomatic decision that marked the peak of the Nixon administration's agreement between the United States and China. It was meant to normalize relations between USA and china and it was the first time Americans saw images of china in over 2 decades. -
ceasefire in vietnam
Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs adviser to the president, returned to Washington with a peace proposal and Nixon decided to call a cease fire and t ended up with all of Vietnam ending in a ceasefire -
Fall of saigon
The fall of Saigon was when the capital of south Vietnam was captured by the peoples army of Vietnam and the viet cong. This capture led to the end of the Vietnam war and the reunification of Vietnam under communist rule. -
Reagen elected
Reagan was a politician and actor who was elected and he lowered taxes and spent insane amounts of money on military and increased Americas debt, Reagan was working on ending the cold war. -
SDI announced
SDI was a program to defend the US from soviet missiles, it was called star wars because it used lasers in space to shoot down missiles, it made tensions in the cold war higher because the soviets saw it as a threat. -
Geneva conference with Gorbachev
The first Geneva conference with Reagan and Gorbachev was to discuss arms limitations, they did not agree on anything but they made a relationship together that would last and this meeting helped the tension between Russia and america simmer down a bit. -
Tear down this wall speech
This speech was made by Reagan right in front of the Berlin wall and he challenged the Russian leader to tear down the wall to reunite east and west Germany. this speech helped with ending the cold war by making the Russian leader Gorbachev eventually tear down the Berlin wall. -
Fall of berlin wall
After Reagan challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the wall it ended up happening so east and west Germany reunited and this event signaled the near of the the end of the cold war. Many people from the communist part of Germany left right away to be with there family and friends they haven't seen in years since the wall stopped them from seeing them.
