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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution started on March 8, 1917, and ended on November 7, 1917. It started with people of Russia starting a revolt against Tsar Nicholas. The people were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called Bolsheviks. Later on, the Bolsheviks became the communist party of the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The conference was held on July 17, 1945, and ended on August 2, 1945. The 3 big leaders Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to discuss terms for the end of WW2. -
Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, through August 9, 1945, American B-29 bomber planes deployed atomic bombs over Japanese city in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and destroyed 267,000 buildings and killed more than 226,000 people. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a boundary that was used by the British Prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S. on March 5, 1946. The Iron Curtain divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II, until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Hollywood 10
On July 29, 1946, motion-picture producers, screenwriters, and director that refused to answer questions that regard possible communists affiliations, and were mostly blacklisted by Hollywood studios. The Hollywood 10 ended in the 1960s -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that countered Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. It was first announced to Congress by President Truman on March 12, 1947, and was further developed on July 12, 1948, to contain threats to Greece and Turkey -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to help Western Europe and gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after World War II. The Marshall plan was signed by President Harry Truman on June 3,
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
on June 24, 1948, the Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the cold war. The blockade blocked Western Allies' railways and canal access to the sectors of Berlin. The Berlin Airlift helped British and the Soviet military forces divide and occupy Germany. It also divided occupation zones. On May 12, 1949, Stalin abandoned the blocked. -
NATO
The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on April 4, 1949. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded their very first bomb that caused a great shock to the United States because they didn't expect the Soviet Union to possess knowledge of nuclear weapons. -
Korean War
A war fought on June 25, 1950, that started when North Korea invaded South Korea, following a series of clashes along the border. It was between the United Nations and North Korea. The battle lasted for 3 years and ended on July 27, 1953. -
Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War. He began to gain power on March 20, 1953, after he was one of the five men that was selected to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. He stopped being in the party and in the Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1964. After retiring, he fell into a deep depression after removal from power. -
Joseph McCarthy Hearings
In April 1954, McCarthy, chairman of the Government Operations Committee in the Senate, opened televised hearings into his charges against 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 U.S. Army and Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
The Massive Retaliation is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It was signed by Eisenhower administration Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in a speech on January 12, 1954. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact ( Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance) was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The treaty was founded on May 14, 1955, but dissolved on July 1, 1991. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, which is also known as the Second Indochina War, or the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955, to April 30, 1975. It was the second of Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The revolt started on October 23, 1956 as a student demonstration that attracted thousands of people. People marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building on the streets. The revolt ended on November 10, 1956. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was failed military invasion in Cuba that was undertaken by CIA sponsored group Brigade on April 17, 1961, through April 19, 1961. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that physically divided Berlin from August 13, 1961, to November 9, 1989.The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, that started on October 16, 1962, between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The crises ended on November 20, 1962. -
Detente under Nixon
Detente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972. Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev visited Washington in June 1973 to discuss the détente between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. The Reagan Doctrine was announced on Feb 06, 1985. -
The Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
The Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech was a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Regan on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. Ronald even yelled "tear down this wall" during his speech. -
The Fall Of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall was 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.
