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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 were a set of two revolutions. The first of which, in February, overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October, placed the Bolsheviks in power. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. -
Iron Curtain
"Iron Curtain" was used to describe the division between Western powers and the area controlled by the Soviet Union prior to the decline of communism -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was an allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. -
Hollywood Ten
In October of 1947, ten members of the Hollywood film industry were subpoenaed by the House of Un-American Activities Committee to testify about communism in the industry. The ten witnesses banded together in protest, refusing to cooperate on first Amendment grounds. HUAC found the Hollywood Ten in contempt of Congress, and fined them each $1,000 and sentenced them up to a year in federal prison. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the principal that the US should provide political, military, and economic assistance to to countries threatened by the Soviet forces. -
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. -
Berlin Blockade
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. -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss, an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an american initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the US gave $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild western europe -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the highly classified research project and development program that was permitted by Joseph Stalin to develop nuculear weapons during World War II. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from mid 1920's until he passed in 1953. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a military operation in the 1940's that brought food and other goods including candy to kids, into West Berlin by air after East Germany's government had cut off its supply route due to the Berlin Wall. The US joined with western European nations in flying supplies. This became one of the earliest events of the Cold War. -
NATO
NATO, also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed to defend countries against Russia -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg Trial involving Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began in New York Southern District federal court when they were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. The Rosenberg's were sentenced to death row on April 6th after nearly a month of trial. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950 about 75,000 soldiers from North Korea crossed the 38th parallel beginning the Korean War, between North and South Korea. South Korea was aided by the United States and other members of the United Nations -
Army McCarthy Hearings
The Army McCarthy hearings was a set of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to look into the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused Chief Committee Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, who was a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was false. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference, was an agreement of the situation in Afghanistan when Russia invaded it. The United States and Soviet Union served as guarantors when Afghanistan and Pakistan signed the agreement. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968). -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956, was a nationwide revolt against the Communist regime of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
U2 Incident
The U2 incident was the shooting down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960. CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission, to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs
On January 1, 1959, Fidel Castro drove army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista.Following this, officials at the U.S. State Department and the CIA attempted to push Castro from power.In April,the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike, a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled their homes when Castro took over, but the invasion did not go well. The invaders were outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam, but also lead to political chaos in the nation. The United States became more involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming a increasingly powerful threat. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK who was the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Daley Plaza. He was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald firing from a nearby building. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the bombing of the targets in north Vietnam, during the Vietnam War that took place on March 2, 1965. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
In 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, thousands of Vietnam War protesters clash with 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. -
Tet Offensive
In January of 1968 the Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong attack the south. They take 100 major southern cities, bases, and the US embassy in Saigon. They then destroyed the Vietcong, but it is seen as an American defeat by the media. -
Election of Nixon
Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, a year that witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.Nixon’s presidential campaign sought to appeal to what it deemed the “silent majority,” those middle-class white Americans who defended the status quo against radical social change.Nixon’s campaign successfully employed the “Southern strategy,” an attempt to appeal to Southern racists resentful of civil rights activism and federal antipoverty programs. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was a Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation and achieve significant civil-rights advances for African Americans. -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw pacts to invade Czechoslovakia in an attempt to stop Alexander Dubcek's Prague liberalization reforms. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
At the democratic national convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battled police, then the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam -
Kent State
Students at Kent State University, in May of 1970 were protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. The Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4. The Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visited China to meet with Mao Zedong in Beijing. It was a vital role in the Cold War because it helped with making the relationship between the United States and China better. -
Cease Fire in Vietnam
Nixon announced a ceasefire in Vietnam to bring an end to the longest war in America. All warring partied in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon 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. This was the formal ending to the Vietnam War. -
Reagan Elected
The election of 1980 was between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat Jimmy Carter. He received the highest number of electoral votes won by a non incumbent presidential candidate. -
SDI Announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative "SDI" was a system to protect the United States from nuclear weapons. It was set up in 1984 using strategic defenses rather than offensive and nicknamed "Star Wars". They said that the satellites in space would shoot lasers at missiles and would protect the United States from Nuclear attacks. -
'Tear Down This Wall' Speech
The 'Tear Down This Wall Speech" was made by Ronald Reagan in West Berlin in 1987. He demanded that the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, Mikhail was to tear down the barrier between East and West Berlin that had been divided since 1916. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The 1989, The Berlin Wall came to an end as the spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announced that they will no longer enforce the wall between East and West Berlin. Citizens were then free to cross the countries borders at their own will.
