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The Russian Revolution in 1917 was the overthrow of the Tsarist Autocracy which was replaced by a provisional government and then overthrown to create a communist state led by Lenin.
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Meeting of Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss postwar issues and how to rebuild Germany.
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On August 6th and 9th, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs were respectively dropped.
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Figurative curtain that separated Eastern communist nations from western democratic European nations that eventually became a literal wall.
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Truman declares that the U.S. will provide political, military and economic assistance to all countries resisting communism.
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A system in which the Soviet Union provided aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe, that was ultimately rejected.
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The marshall plan was an American initiative created by the secretary of state George C. Marshall that channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951, which also helped stop the spread of communism in Western Europe.
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When the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
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NATO is an Alliance that consists of 28 independent member countries across North America and Europe. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, stated in 1949 that the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
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After The Soviets blockaded the section of Berlin under allied access from supplies coming in over land, the allies dropped supplies from planes into the free section of Berlin. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin.
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Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948[1] and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Hiss had secretly been a Communist, though not a spy, while in federal service.
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The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm 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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A war in which China and the Soviet Union aided North Korea, while the U.S. and the United Nations gave military aid Southern Korea.
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The USSR sets off the first atomic bomb, code-named “First Lightning”, at a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.
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The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic battle between Vietnamese forces and French forces that convinced France to abandon their war effort.
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The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954 about communists within the American military that McCarthy claims to have information on.
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A gathering of nations to settle issues from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Vietnam.
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The warsaw pact was a defensive treaty between eastern communist countries in response to the formation of NATO.
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The Hungarian revolution was a nationwide revolt against the oppression of the Soviet rule it lived under. The Soviets crushed the revolution.
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The U2 incident occurred during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency when an American spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace.
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On April 17, 1961, 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 Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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The Cuban missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over a dispute about wether or not there would be nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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The arrest and assassination of Diem was the result of a successful coup d'etat led by General Dương Văn Minh.
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John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dallas' Dealey Plaza.
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a document passed by congress that allowed President LBJ to go ahead with his war on Vietnam.
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Operation rolling thunder was the name of the U.S. tactic of continued and relentless bombing of North Vietnam.
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Massive offensive executed by the North Vietnamese on the Tet holiday that destroyed political support for the war in the U.S.
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MLK was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Shortly after winning the 1968 presidential election, Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and died the next day while hospitalized.
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The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a joint invasion of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland into Czechoslovakia to prevent liberalization reforms.
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After the assassination of MLK, there were numerous violent riots at the democratic convention of 1968.
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Despite losing the election several years earlier, Nixon saw his opportunity over a divided democratic party and their nominee, Hubert Humphrey.
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Members of the Ohio national guard shot 4 students at an antiwar protest at Kent State.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China.
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An agreement is finally reached between the U.S. and North Vietnam on an end to the fighting, none of which favors the U.S.
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The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam occurred while the U.S. was leaving and bringing South Vietnamese refugees with them.
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States and was elected
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SDI was a defense system proposed by Ronald Reagan in which nuclear weapons are shot down by lasers on satellites in the atmosphere before they made it to the U.S.
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The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was a meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
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"Tear down this wall" is a line in a speech made by president Reagan at the Berlin wall asking Gorbachev to, of course, tear down the Berlin wall.
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This was the day in which the wall dividing East and West Berlin fell.
