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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions which dismantled Tsarist Autocracy and led to the formation of the Soviet Union -
Potsdam Conference
Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. Although talks primarily centered on postwar Europe, the Big Three also issued a declaration demanding “unconditional surrender” from Japan. -
Atomic Bombs
The first two atomic bombs ever used were dropped on Japan in early August, 1945. The bombs hit hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. This was an attempt by the Soviet Union to stop it and it's satellites from Western influence. -
Truman Doctrine
A policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry S Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947, stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into communist hands. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was proposed by the United States Secretary of State, George C Marshall. The Plan offered American aid to European countries under communist control. The goal was also to encourage democratic ideals. -
The Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the HUAC during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was organized by the United States and Britain. The Airlift provided food and fuel to those being deprived/suppressed in West Berlin by the communist Soviet Union. -
Alger Hiss case
An American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its a members agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. The alliance includes 28 members in North America and Europe. -
Soviet Bomb test
The Soviet atomic bomb project 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. -
Korean War
The Korean war was when north Korea invaded South Korea to make them communist. Meanwhile, the United States helped South Korea fight back to stop communism. -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenburg Spy Case was about a husband and wife, Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, accused of being soviet spies. It was believed that the two were leaking information about our nuclear advances. Julius had worked in the US army signal corps. The two were found guilty and received the death sentence. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Dien Bien Phu is a city in northern Vietnam where a battle took place between the communists and a French military group. This battle was one that basically ended French influence in Vietnam. It caused United States influence to be much more prominent. -
Army-MCcarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revoloution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance when it was hit by a surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. The invasion consisted of mostly exiled Cubans, who left after Castro's takeover, and a some US military personnel. The invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and mentally divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by East Germany, the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin -
Cuban Misile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assasination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam, as it led to political chaos in Vietnam. The United States subsequently became more heavily involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming an increasingly powerful threat. -
JFK assasination
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, and was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resoultion
On August 7, 1964, 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. This is also known as the Blank Check. -
Operation Rolling thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted against North Vietnam from during the Vietnam War. -
Riots of Democratic convention
In 1967, anti-Vietnam War protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days, the protesters and the Chicago Police Department met in the streets and parks of Chicago while the U.S. Democratic Party met at the convention in the International Amphitheater. -
Tet Offensive
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 People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. -
Assasination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. MLK was a very powerful person in the civil rights movement, and his death only motivated people more. -
Assasination of RFK
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized. -
invasion of Czech
The invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations; the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany and Poland. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. This event was made much more public becvuase of TV and radio. -
Nixon visits China
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China (officially the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's rapprochement between the United States and China. The seven-day official visit to three Chinese cities was the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, returned to Washington from Paris, France with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the Viet Cong on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. -
SDI announced
The strategic defense initiative also known as star wars which will shoot down missiles coming from other countrys and will shoot them down using lazers in outer space. -
Geneva conference with Gorbachev
The two leaders developed a liking and respect for each other when meeting for the first time at the conference. -
Tear down this wall speech
Reagan went to berlin and stood strong next to the berlin wall risking his life to tell Gorbachev to tear down the berlin wall to end all issues. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, 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. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
