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The Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech consisted of the Prime minister of Great Britain named Winston Churchill rallied together a speech for his people. It consisted of Churchill pronouncing the beginning of the cold war. -
The Molotov Plan
developed by the Soviet Union to help repair and reshape the corrupt and failing economy in Eastern Europe. Molotov was not excepting of the Marshal plan and proposed his own "The Molotov Plan". -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan channeled $13 billion to Europe for economic support. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked the reconstruction of the European economy. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. America was pretty much just supplying Berlin. -
The Berlin Blockade
One of the biggest major international crisis of the cold war. During the current multinational complication of post World War II - Germany, the soviet union blocked in the western allies by blocking their railways, roads and canal access. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Truman passed a policy to try to start the spread of the soviet union. Was said to protect soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. Also involved the giving Greece and Turkey financial aid during the war. -
NATO
United States and 11 other nations came together to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). These nations came together to resist and go against the ways of communist nations. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1'. The bomb was tested at Semipalatinsk test site in modern day Kazakhstan. The bomb yielded up to 22 kilotons. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
was the climatic outbreak of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. From the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. -
Geneva Conference
was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.[2] The Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China were participants throughout the conference while other countries concerned were represented during the discussion of questions of interest to them. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact, also known as the Treaty of Friendship. Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. A pack of people against the soviet union. -
The Invasion of Hungary
The people of Hungarian were making a strike/revolt against the Hungarian government. They wanted to go to the radio house and broadcast the revolt but the student was detained. One student died and was wrapped in a flag and help over the people of the revolt to show the corruption of their government. -
U2 incident
The U2 incident during the cold war on May 1st 1960. Involved a U2 spy plane being shot down. The plane was doing research and consonance in the soviet union air space. -
Bay of Pigs
The failed invasion of Cuba in 1961. it was undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. A counter/defensive USA funded organization. -
The Berlin Wall
This wall divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. This was built at the beginning of the cold war when Russia began its rain of communism. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 13 Days
For 14 days in October 1962 the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. The Soviet Union had secretly stationed nuclear weapons on the island of Cuba, and when the government of the United States discovered them, and demanded their withdrawal, the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War followed. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, on November 2, 1963, was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. Up until the deaths of the Ngo brothers, the United States had been ‘advising the government of South Vietnam in its war against the Viet Cong and their benefactors, the government of North Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, he was traveling with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 7, 1964) gave broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War. During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North, but at that time President Lyndon B. Johnson and his advisers feared that the public would not support an expansion of the war. -
Tet Offensive
Was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, proceeded 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, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
During the Vietnam War (1954-75), as part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pacts troops on an invasion on Czechoslovakia to crack down on reforms in Prague. Czechoslovakia was becoming a democratic nation and the soviet union was not going to let it happen. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
On this day in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 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. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered. -
Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years. -
Kent State shooting
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) 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 on Monday, May 4, 1970. There were 28 soldiers who admitted to firing on top of the hill, 25 of these soldiers fired 55 rounds into the air and into the ground, two of the soldiers fired . -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men, about the same as the previous year. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. -
Fall of Saigon
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 (also known as the Việt Cộng) 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.
