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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in Russia. This led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The other revolution that were in it was the February and October revolutions. This revolution took place in the Russian empire. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a conference that help the government choose what you want to do. The participants werethe Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United Sates. They were repersented by Communist Party General Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and later Clement Attlee and the President Harry S. Turman. -
Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Towards the end of World War ll the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. The atomic bomb mostly hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two of the bombings killed at least 192,000 people and most of them wrere civilans. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of the World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system to help the soviet union rebuild there socetiy. Also to provide aid for them and also help the people of eastern europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The Trumen Doctrine was was an American forgien policy to create the soviet expansion during the Cold War. It was announced by president Harry S. Turmen on March 12th. It developed to when he agreed to contain Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an american aid to help rebiuld Western Europe. The United States gave over $13,000,000,00 to assist the ecomny after World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was the first major international crises of the cold war. During the multinational post World War II Germany and the Soveit Union block the western allies. Railways, roads, canals access under the western control. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was one of the biggest international airlifts during the cold war. Also during the berlin airlift, an allies supply plan took off or landed in west berlin every 30 seconds. The planes nearly 300,000 flights in all. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an american goverment offical who was accused of being a soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with the charge in 1950 -
NATO
NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the US entered into outside of the western hemisphere. After the destruction of the second World War the nations of europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security. -
Soviet Bomb Test
On August 29,1949 the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. The United States never expected that the soviet union would ever make a nuclear weapon.After the US made the atomic bomb to take down japan in World War II. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten was a film made in the 1950´s. Each member of the hollywood ten made a little speech about denouning McCarthyism and the hollywood blacklist. -
Korean War
The Korean War was between South Korea and North Korea. The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes on the border -
Rosenburg trial
The trials aganist Ethel and Julius Rosenburg begins in York Southern Distrtict Fedral Court. They were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. There were accused and sentence to death in an elecitry chair. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearing was a series of hearing held by the United States to investagate the conflict between the US and U.S senator McCarthy. -
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 fron the Korean War and Indochina War too.
