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Russian Revolution 1917
A revolution in Russia in 1917-1918 also called the October revolution that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks a communist party that led Lenin to power and also established the USSR in 1922 -
Potsdam Conference 1945
The Potsdam conference was the big three soviet leaders, Joseph Stalin, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and u.s president Harry Truemen met in Postdam, Germany from Jul 17th to August 2nd of 1945 to negotiate terms for the end of world war 2. -
Atomic Bombing 1945
The lead scientist on the Manhattan project was J Robert Oppenheimer he is often called 'the father of the atomic bomb' the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made from uranium. -
Iron Curtain 1946
The Iron Curtain speech was on March 5th 1946. It was names for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate area from the end of world war two in 1945 until the end of the cold war in 1991 -
HollyWood 10 1950
In the film each member of the HollyWood 10 made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
Truman Doctrine 1947
The Truman Doctrine was an american foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. They announced to congress March 12th 1947 and developed July 12th 1948 pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan 1948
was an american initiative to western Europe in which the United states gave over 13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild western European economies after world war two. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948
international crisis that rose from an attempt by the soviet union in 1948 to force the western allied powers to abandon their post- world war 2 jurisdiction in west Berlin -
NATO 1949
The north american Atlantic treaty organization was created in 1949 by the united states, Canada, and several other western European nations to provide collective security against the soviet union. -
Soviet bomb test 1949
The soviets successfully tested their first device called RD-1 or "first lightning" on August 29th 1949 -
Korean War 1950
World War 2 divided Korea into a communist northern half and an an american- occupied southern western half it is divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean war began in 1950 when the north Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non communist south Korea. -
Khrushchev takes over 1953
Led the soviet union during the end of the cold war serving as premier from 1958-1964 though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the west he instigated the Cuban missile crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
Army-McCarthy hearings 1954
senator Joseph McCarthy begins investigating the unites states arm which he charges 'soft' on communism. -
Eisenhower's massive retaliation policy 1954
A military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits its self to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack -
Warsaw Pact 1955
The prospect of further communist expansion prompted the unites states and 11 other western nations to form the north Atlantic treaty organization. -
The Vietnam War 1955
It was a direct result of the first Indo-china war between France which claimed Vietnam as a colony and the communist forces then known as Vietnam -
Hungrian Revolution 1956
The hungrian revolution of 1956 on the hungrian uprising of 1956 was a nation wide revolt against the hungarian peoples policies lasting from october 23 to novemeber 1956 -
U2 incident 1960
Shot down by a soviet surface to air missile on the morning if nay 1st 1960 cia plot 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 invasion 1961
shortly before midnight on April 16th 1961 a group of 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the bay of pigs 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the unites states and soviet union during the cold war and was the moment when the two super powers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
detente under Nixon 1973
Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon during Brezhnev June 1973 visited to Washington this was a high water mark in detente between the unites states and the soviet union. -
The Reagan Doctrine 1985
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. -
Reagan's Berlin wall speech 1987
in one of his most famous cold war speeches president Ronald Reagan challenges soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to 'tear down' the Berlin wall a symbol of the repressive communist era in a divided Germany. -
Berlin Wall 1989
On November 9th, 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. -
Fall of the Berlin wall 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 west Germany was made official on October 3rd, 1990 almost one year the fall of Berlin
