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The Russian Revolution
Ending on November 7, 1917, The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions that destroyed the autocracy that was already present and then brought forth the Soviet Union. While the Revolution was happening, the United States sent help to the anti-communists who were fighting against the "soon to be" Soviet Union communists.That then started the Cold War between the U.S. and the S.U. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War. It was the United States, the South Vietnamese, the Army Republic of Vietnam, and their allies versus Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. It was surprise attacks against military and civilians throughout South Vietnam. -
Potsdam Conference
Ending on August 2, 1945, The Potsdam Conference was held to discuss postwar Europe and the 'unconditional surrender' of Japan. But tensions were created when President Truman and Winston Churchill wanted to secure political freedom and democratic governments in post-war Europe, while Joseph Stalin wanted to dominate all of Europe and impose communism on it's nations. -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/Nagasaki
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first atomic bomb ever created, over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Then three days later, a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, another city in Japan, and killed an estimate of 40,000 people. This made Japan surrender from WW2, and this upset the Soviet Union because it showed how ready the U.S. was for war. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain, at first being just an ideological barrier between the Soviet Union and the rest of Europe, was then brought into reality after a speech by Winston Churchill was given on March 5, 1946. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was created from a speech by President Truman before a joint session of Congress. It stated that the U.S would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat by communists. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe. They provided aid to country's that were politically and economically assigned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
In October 1947, the House of Un-American Activities Committee, aka HUAC, was publicly denounced of it's tactics, in a film produced by 10 Hollywood filmmakers. They were all sentenced to jail and were banned from Hollywood film making. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a recovery program by the U.S. to help Western Europe recover from WW2. America spent an estimate of $12 billion helping to rebuild the Western European Economy. -
The Berlin Blockade
Lifted on May 12, 1949, The Berlin Blockade was created to limit France's, Great Britain's, and the United States ability to travel to the Soviet Unions sectors of Berlin. It was surpassed by western powers by airplanes that dropped supplies and relief to the west Berliners behind the blockade. The Soviets were further angered at the U.S. for their continuous attempts at trying to suppress their communist rule. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a plan for the western allies to support the people that were forced inside the Berlin Blockade by dropping supplies that they would want or need. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, aka NATO, is a military alliance based of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. It was created in an effect to slow down or stop Soviet or communist expansion, forbid any nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong U.S. military presence, and encourage European political interrogation. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Unions first nuclear test was on August 29, 1949. It was code named RDS-1 and took place in current day Kazakhstan -
The Alger Hiss Case
The Alger Hiss case started in 1948 when Whittaker Chambers charged Alger Hiss as a communist in the 30's and 40's. Chambers, an ex-communist himself testified at the House Un-American activities Committee (HUAC). -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a battle when where North Korea Invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the U.S aided South Korea in an attempt to stop communism and the Soviet Union aided the North to promote the spread of it. -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenberg trial was a case in which Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel were arrested and executed for “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage". Meaning they were spying on the United States for the Soviet Union, which meant they were communists. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the conflict between the French Union's far east corps and Viet Minh Communist-Nationalist revolutionaries. The battle resulted in a French defeat ad negotiations over the future of Indochina. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference took place in Switzerland in an attempt of settle foreign issues with the Korean Peninsula and trying to restore peace in Indochina. Countries that attended include the Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a defense treaty with the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet Satellite States in Europe. It was created in motivation by Soviet powers to maintain control over military forces and NATO. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution lasted until November 10, 1956. The Hungarians revolted against the soviet's imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
The U-2 incident was when the Soviets shot down an American spy plane. It occurred during Eisenhower presidency and premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was when the U.S. had American trained Cuban refugees invade Cuba which was overtaken by communists. It failed and ended in a severe American loss and Fidel Castro continued to rule communist Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall between East and West Berlin
after it was divided into different sectors.The East was controlled by the Soviet Union and the west by the United States. The wall was built by the Soviet Union and served as an iron curtain so citizens would not flee to the west. But that did not stop the U.S. from oppressing their communist rules. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was between "American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba". It almost started a nuclear war warfare. -
Assassination of Diem
The assassination of Diem was a turning point in the war in Vietnam, the CIA backed operation was an American success. The U.S was advising the South Vietnam government and had more than 16,000 troops in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 2016 at 12:30 p.m traveling with his wife in downtown Dallas. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who was killed before he was put onto trial. Kennedy was the fourth president assassinated. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Johnson reported in 1964 that U.S ships in the Gulf of Tonkin were been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson wanted congress to pass a resolution to send planes to fight back at the attackers. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the name of a campaign for non-stop aerial bombings against North Vietnam. There were four main objectives of the plan, boost morale of the Saigon regime, persuade North Vietnam to cease support for communist need in the South, destroy North Vietnam transportation, and halt supplies and people into South Vietnam. -
The Assassination of MLK
Martain Luther King Jr., an African American civil rights activist was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a racist killing King in Memphis TN. Millions were saddened by the unfortunate death of the peaceful protester. -
The Assasination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968, after being the leading candidate for democratic presidential nominee. He was a politician in the U.S as he was a junior senator in New York and a U.S attorney general. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw pacts to invade Czechoslovakia in an attempt to stop Alexander Dubček's Prague liberalization reforms. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
At The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battled police, then the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
The Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential race of 1968 resulted in the election of Richard Nixon. He won between him and the democratic nominee Huburt Humphre after the rough and violent year of multiple assassinations and riots. -
Kent State Shooting
The Kent State shooting was at Kent State at the college in Kent, Ohio where unarmed college students were fired at by the Ohio National Guard in 1970. Twenty-eight soldiers admitted to the crime, resulting in four deaths and wounding nine others. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visited China to meet with Mao Zedong in Beijing. It was a vital role in the Cold War because it helped with making the relationship between the United States and China better. -
Cease Fire in Vietnam
Nixon announced a ceasefire in Vietnam to bring an end to the longest war in America. All warring parties in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
Fall of Siagon
The 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. This was the formal ending to the Vietnam war. -
Reagan is Elected President of The US
The election of 1980 was between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat Jimmy Carter. He received the highest number of electoral votes won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. -
SDI Announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative "SDI" was a system to protect the United States from nuclear weapons. It was set up in 1984 using strategic defenses rather than offensive and nicknamed "Star Wars". They said that satellites in space would shoot lasers at missiles and would protect the United States from nuclear attacks. -
'Tear Down This Wall' Speech
The 'Tear down this wall' Speech was made by Ronald Reagan in West Berlin in 1987. He demanded that the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev was to tear down the barrier between East and West Berlin that had been divided since 1961. -
The Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference, aka the Geneva Accords, was a agreement of the situation in Afghanistan when Russia invaded it. The United States and Soviet Union served as guarantors when Afghanistan and Pakistan signed the agreement. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
In 1989, The Berlin Wall came to an end as the spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announced that they will no longer enforce the wall between East and West Berlin. Citizens were then free to cross the countries borders at their own will. Woop Woop!
