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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that separated Germany from Berlin. Placed there from 1916 to 1989, for more than 80 years the wall stood. It stood to there to separate the communists from the capitalists. -
Russian Revolution
It was a revelation based around Petrograd. It dismantled the Tsarists autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. Eventually all the members of the Imperial parliament wanted control over the country, creating the Russian Provisional Government. -
The Soviet bomb test
The Soviet bomb test was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. 1940-1949 -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The agreement that outlined the terms for the coordinated development of the science and engineering related to nuclear weapons. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was when the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Airlift was to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin, a difficult feat given the size of the city's population. -
NATO
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. -
Korean War
This war was between North and South Korea. It began when North Korea invaded South Korea because of they fought over the ownership of the others land. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when an armistice was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized Zone to separate North and South Korea, and allowed the return of prisoners. However, there was no peace treaty singed, meaning that there was still contention between them. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The war would last approximately 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which resulted in all 3 countries becoming communist states in 1975. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungarian revolution was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
U2 Incident
U2 was when a U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade. It was a decisive Cuban victory -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation with the United States and the Soviet Union. Both sides willing to start a war if the other made the first blow. It started when Cuba was preparing to receive nuclear missiles over seas when the United States found proof that they had been creating a camp for these missiles. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
Reagan's Berlin wall speech was calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
