Cold War

  • HUAC

    HUAC

    The HUAC was created to deal with possible threats.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    A conference with the U.S.A , England and the Soviet Union. Discussing what to do with Germany.
  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb

    The Untied States dropped two nuclear weapons over Japanese cities. The two bombing killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people.
  • Long Telegram

    Long Telegram

    George Kennan wrote from Russia to the U.S. about the culture, life, history beliefs and everything to know abut Russia in a telegram.
  • Iron Curtain Speech

    Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill gave a speech in the U.S. telling America what is really going on in eastern Europe.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine was a American foreign policy with the main goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan European Recovery Program was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade was created to block supplies coming in to west Berlin from the U.S.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The Berlin Airlift was done by the U.S. where American pilots would fly over the Berlin Blockade bringing supplies to Western Berlin
  • Chinese Communist Revolution

    Chinese Communist Revolution

    China had started a communist revolution in 1948 because of the failing economy and country
  • NATO

    NATO

    NATO was created from a number of countries on the east side of the world to project Europe from any threats.
  • Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss was being prosecuted for being a spy for the Soviet Union back in the 1930's.
  • First Soviet bomb test

    First Soviet bomb test

    The soviet Union created a bomb a lot quicker than they should've because they had spies in the Manhattan project.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The Korean War was a war between north and South Korea. North Korea had help from China and South Korea had help from the UN. Both North and South Korea wanted to be unified but couldn't agree on policies. North Korea wanted Korea to be unified as a communist country and South Korea wanted democracy.
  • Rosenberg trial

    Rosenberg trial

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were spies for the Soviet Union were convicted of espionage providing secrets about the American Military and were executed in 1953.
  • Korean Armistice

    Korean Armistice

    The Korean Armistice was an agreement to cease all fire in the Korean was and agree to a "tie".
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings in which the army was arguing with the U.S. Senator about the accusations that the U.S. Senator was pushing the army to much.
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    A revolution across the whole country of Hungarian was down to get the Stalinist government out of the country and pick up democratic policies from the USSR.
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident

    A U.S. U2 spy plane was flying over the Soviet Union taking aerial pictures it was shot down by the Soviet air defense.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

    The U.S had hired and trained Cuban exiles to go to Cuba and try and invasion on the country but they were quickly all killed.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin wall was built by the Soviet Union to divide Berlin from The Soviet part from the rest of the city.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Soviet Union was using Cuba to build nuclear weapons. The missiles ad supplies being brought to Cuba brought much tension between the Soviet Union and the U.S. until the Soviet Union stopped building the bombs and remove them.
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK

    While in a parade through Dallas Texas President Kennedy was shot 2 times and killed.
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    North Vietnamese warships purportedly attacked United States warships.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
  • 1968 riots at Democratic convention

    1968 riots at Democratic convention

    Police riot in full swing in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, television broadcasts live as anti-war protesters chant "The whole world is watching",
  • Kent State

    Kent State

    Kent State's killings of four and wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard.
  • Ceasefire in Vietnam

    Ceasefire in Vietnam

    The U.S. agreed to send home remaining military personnel from South Vietnam within 60 days. North Vietnam agreed to return all American prisoners of war. North Vietnam was allowed to leave 150,000 soldiers and to retain the territory it controlled in South Vietnam.
  • Reagan Elected

    Reagan Elected

    President Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes received by a non-incumbent presidential candidate of over a million votes. Promised restoration of military forces
  • SDI announced

    SDI announced

    Reagan announced SDI on national television stating that he calls "upon the scientific community in this country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete"
  • 'Tear Down This Wall' Speech

    'Tear Down This Wall' Speech

    Reagan's harsh challenge to tear down the Berlin Wall gave shape to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform, the wall came down two years later.
  • The Fall of The Berlin Wall

    The Fall of The Berlin Wall

    East Berlin's spokesman for the communist party announced a change in his city's relationship with the West. Starting at midnight he stated the citizens of the GDR are allowed were free to cross the country's borders.