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United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union the big three powers who defeated Nazi Germany met at a Potsdam Conference. They met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
The first use weapon with great explosive power. Was used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
George F. Kennan sent a telegram to the U.S. State Department on the nature of Soviet conduct and foreign policy. It detailed the nature of the Soviet Union in a post-WWII world and how the US may go about relating to them. -
Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britian to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism.. -
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters. It refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
It would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. It provided collective security against the Soviet Union. -
A U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe due to the devastation of World War II. It was a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries, and infrastructure. It removed trade barriers between European neighbors.
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The Chinese Communist Revolution also known as the War of Liberation was a conflict led by the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong. Its purpose was to maintain Chinese communist by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. -
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test. Its code name was RDS-1. It was tested in modern-day Kazakhstan. It has a yield of 22 kilotons. -
It was an attempt o the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain, and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin. -
United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged cities. It supplied West Berlin for nearly a year and sustained over 2 million people. -
He was sentenced to five years in prison, ending an important case that helped confirm the increasing penetration of the U.S.government by the Soviets during the Cold War. -
Rosenberg was the first American civilian to be executed for the conviction of conspiracy to commit espionage. -
The Korean War was a conflict between the Democratic People Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). It was a war to liberate the North from the communist. -
It was an agreement to ensure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved. -
It signaled the end of the French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam. -
They were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the communist government of Hungarian and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
The pilot of an American U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying through the Soviet airspace. -
A CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
The wall came to symbolize the Iron Curtain speech. It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin. -
This was the 'hottest' point of the Cold war. It regarded the moment in which the Cold War came close to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1979 the United States House Select Committee Assassinations concluded that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy and that Oswald did not act alone. -
It authorized President Johnson to take any measure that he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Protest against the Vietnam War took place. Counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention and the city's promise to maintain law and order. -
A coordinated series of North Vietnam attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Students protested the bombing of Cambodia by the United States military forces clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When Guardsmen shot and killed four students. The Kent State shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
The north wanted to destroy south Vietnam while the south wanted to defeat the northern forces, -
It took over the city by the Viet Cong and two years later on the 30th of April. -
His administration implemented a new policy towards the Soviet Union through NSDD-32 to confront the USSR on three fonts. -
Strategic Defense Initiative by name Star Wars purposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks. -
Tearing down the wall will give to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform. -
It marked the first critical step towards German reunification. It concluded with mere with the dissolution of East Germany and the official reunification of the German state along with democratic lines of the West German Basic Law.