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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate the conflicting accusations between the U.S Army and U.S Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Potsdam Conference
Was the agreement that the 3 Allies, The United Kingdom, United States, and The Soviet Union would rebuild Germany and its borders. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The U.S created the world's first atomic bomb and dropped it on Hiroshima at first, not knowing what it's full potential would be. After mass destruction and death, they dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, ultimately pushing Japan to surrender. -
Iron Curtain
A phrase from former British prime minister, Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri on March 5, 1946, referring to to the influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." -
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. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would provide political, economic, and military aide to all foreign countries that were in danger of falling to communism. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was an American initiative to help aid, assist, and rebuild Western European economies with $13 billion -
Berlin Blockade
Considered to be one of the biggest international crises of the Cold War, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or also known as the North Atlantic Alliance. This org. consisted of several North American and European countries. They served as a international military alliance. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the end of the Berlin Blockade, by spring of 1949 it was clear that the blockade had failed and West Berliners were not persuaded to reject their allies in the West, or prevent the creation unified West German state. -
Soviet Bomb Test
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). Each member made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948, and then later convicted of perjury in connection with his case in 1950; -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of altercations along the Korean border. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and executed by the United States government -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Was the first altercation in the Indochina war between the French and Vietnamese communist and nationalist -
Geneva Conference
Was a meeting of several nations held in Geneva, Switzerland about how to dissolve the standing issues that led to the Korean War and the first Indochina war -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formerly known as the Treaty of Friendship, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic -
U2 Incident
A U2 spy plane incident rose tensions between the U.S and the Soviet Union during the Cold War -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became to be a failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. Because of this, in 1950, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense 13-day confrontation standoff both military and politically. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam -
Assassination of JFK
on November 22, 1963 the United States 35th president was assassinated in Dallas, TX while riding in a presidential motorcade -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to keep southeast Asia secure and peaceful -
Operation Rolling Thunder
"Operation Rolling Thunder" was a code name for a American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War -
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was a clergyman and a civil rights leader. He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy, was a 42 year old U.S presidential candidate but was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact 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 -
Riots of Democratic Convention
in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters fought police officers in the streets while the Democratic party was falling apart over the stance in Vietnam -
Election of Nixon
On November 5, 1968, the Republican nominee of former vice president Richard Nixon had defeated the Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey -
Kent State
On May 4, 1970 there were the shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the U.S bombing Cambodia. 4 students were killed and 9 others were injured. -
Nixon visits China
President Nixon visited China as an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 15, 1973 President Nixon ordered U.S troops to ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was also known as the Liberation of Saigon. North Vietnamese Communist took capture over the South capital, Saigon, and forcing them to surrender to communism. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American actor and politician who served as 40th president for the United States from 1981 to 1989 -
SDI Announced
The SDI, Strategic Defensive Initiative, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the U.S from an attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
For the first time in eight years, the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference. Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. The two men developed personal friendship and bonded. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier between East and West Germany -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was taken down as the end of the Cold War approached across Eastern Europe
