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The first Geneva Conference was to sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea was adopted in 190
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One of the most famous of the Cold War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe
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The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War.
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The Hollywood Ten paid a high price for their actions at the HUAC hearings
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The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe.
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he Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
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At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top-secret research and development
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The case against Hiss began in 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor with Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s.
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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea.
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Lius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953.
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries
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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.
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The Geneva Conference was a conference which took place in Geneva.
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The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac
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The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies
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Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country on the South China Sea known for its beaches, rivers, Buddhist pagodas and bustling cities.
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The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D.
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history.
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A harrowing political, diplomatic and military confrontation that threatened to end in an apocalyptic nuclear exchange
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The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
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Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing 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.
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The People’s Republic of China joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability, after a successful nuclear test on this day in 1964.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
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A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968
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Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary.
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The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations
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Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam.
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The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
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The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard
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President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to chat with the folks there.
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When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population.
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The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
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President Ronald Reagan shared his thought on the SDI.
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November 4, 1984 Ronald Reagan got elected for President.
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John F. Kenndy traveled to tell everyone to tear down the wall.
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As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
