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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a series of revolutions in 1917 that resulted in the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet bomb test
A program developed by Joseph Stalin in the soviet union to create nuclear weapons during world war ll -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During World War ll the united states created nuclear weapons. On August 6th and 9th the bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing between 129,000–226,000 people whom were most civilians. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting between the Soviet Union(Joseph Stalin), The United Kingdom(Winston Churchill & Clement Attlee), and the United States(Harry S. Truman). The goals of the conference were to discuss how to administer Germany,establish postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of war. -
Iron Curtain
Boundary dividing Europe in 2 separate areas at the end of world war ll(1945) till the end of the Cold War(1992). This term was used to describe efforts of the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from contact with the West and its allied states. -
Truman Doctrine
In 1945 President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide military, political and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from internal or external authoritarian forces. The Truman Doctrine changed U.S foreign policy from withdrawing from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States to possibly getting involved in far away conflicts when needed. -
Molotov Plan
In 1947 the Soviet Union created a system called the Molotov plan. This system was created to provide aid in Eastern Europe to held rebuild the countries that were politically and economically aligned with the U.S. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were a group of actors, screen writers, and directors accused of being associated with communism and promoting in through the motion picture business . The Hollywood 10 were given jail time an banned from working for major Hollywood studios. -
Berlin Airlift
During the Berlin blockade the western allied organized the Berlin Airlift to provide supplies to the people of Berlin. The soviets did not shoot down the planes is fear it mead lead to open conflict. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American official who was convicted of perjury for being a soviet spy in 1948. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the Western allies railway, roadway, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western Control. In response the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift. Aircrews delivered supplies to the people of west Berlin. The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War. -
The Marshall plan (ERP)
The Marshall plan (ERP) was Americans plan to provide Aid to Western Europe by giving them $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe economies after World War ll. The United states goal was to remove trade barriers, modernize industry, rebuild war torn regions, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. The Marshall Plan also required the a dropping of many regulations, the lessening of interstate barriers, ect. -
NATO( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
NATO was established on April 4th 1949 at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. NATO was international alliance that consist of 29 member stated form Europe and North Africa. In article five of the treaty is states that is an armed attack occurs on one of the member states, it is to be considered an attack on all member states and other members will assist the attacked member with armed force if necessary -
Korean War
A war between North Korea ( Soviet union and china) and South Korea (The united states). In result of the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States Korea had been split into two sovereign states. Conflict between the two escalated when North Korea began to move into South Korea. The fight tended on July 27, 1953 when the armistice was signed to separate the two and return prisoners. -
Rosenberg trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are accused of sharing nuclear secrets to the Russians. The Rosenberg were convicted of espionage and sentences to death . -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to find out conflicting accusations between the United states Army and U.S senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact signed by the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO. -
Hungarian Revolution
A world wide revolt against Stalinist regime of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. It was the first major soviet threat since the USSR's forces drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II. -
U2 Event
On May 1, 1960 a U-2 spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers was shot down while preforming Photographic Ariel Reconnaissance in Soviet territory. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a guarded concrete barrier built by the German Democratic republic. It was used to divide Berlin and to protect it physically and ideologically from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis was confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. about the deployment of missiles in Cuba. -
Assasination of JFK
John F. Kennedy (35th president of the United States), was shot dead while riding in a Presidential Motorcade riding with his wife and was pronounced dead thirty minutes later. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf revolution authorized 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 -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S.. against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
