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Ended Nov, 7 1917.
The Russian Revolution was led by the Bolsheviks to dismantle the Russian Provisional Government. After some conflicts, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). -
Ended 1991. The Iron Curtain was the name for the border dividing Europe and Soviet controlled Europe. It was not only a physical border, but an idealogical one too, showing the spread of communism. It was a defensive manuever by the soviets, but somewhat provoked antsy European neighbors and American's who were not in favor of communism.
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Ended Aug, 2 1945.
The Potsdam Conference was made up of Joseph Stalin, representing the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill representing Great Britain, and The US by President Harry Truman. In this assembly, the postwar borders of Germany would be decided. -
The atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was, at the time, seen as necessary to get the Japanese to finally accept unconditional surrender. Nowadays however the usage of these weapons is seen as far more controversial.
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The Molotov Plan was the method which to aid and rebuild eastern european countries which had suffered under communist leadership. This plan was developed only to combat the Marshall Plan
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The Truman Doctrine was the American foreign policy in which we would passively limit Soviet expansion to Greece and Turkey. This was one of the first moves against the Soviet Union made by America in the Cold War.
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Officially known as the European Recovery Program, this initiative, proposed by President Truman, was to gift over $13,000,000,000 to suffering European nations in order to prevent them from falling to communism after WWII. This was of tactical advantage, but also was a publicity act for the benefit of capitalism.
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Ended May 12th, 1949
The Berlin Airlift was a sort of aid mission undertaken by America to drop in food, water, colthing, gas and other necessities into East Berlin to help those suffering under communist rule. It was also a large advertisement of America's goodwill. -
Ended May, 12 1949.
The Berlin Blockade was the Soviet attempt to separate their Communist Berlin from the rest of the capitalist controlled Berlin. It was a physical, and socioeconomical border. The residents of East Berlin were unable to leave the Russian quarter, where there was little food, water or electricity. -
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a large treaty between the North Americas and many Western European countries. This was made to protect these nations from the expanding region of Soviet influence known as the Iron Curtain.
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The successful Soviet bomb test came as a shock to the states because we did not expect the Soviets to have atomic technology this soon. This scared the Westerners because it meant that the arms race was more of a tie than we had anticipated.
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The Hollywood Ten was a short film denouncing McCarthyism and Hollywood Blacklisting. It showed controversial opinions on the Cold War from within the US.
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Ended July 27th, 1953.
The Korean War was a conflict between North and South Korea. It was the first armed conflict in the Cold War, between Soviet-backed North Korea and US-backed South Korea. -
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg was to convict Julius Rosenberg of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets. Ethel was tried with him to convince Julius to sell out any accomplices. This event showed the widespread fear of losing the arms race to the reds.
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Ended May 7th, 1954.
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a battle for the future of Vietnam. France wanted to keep Vietnam as one of its colonies but the Vietnamese wanted their independence. It ends with Vietnam temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. -
Ended June 1954.
These hearings were held by the US Senate to investigate conflicting accusations between the US Army and US Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Ended July 24th, 1954.
A conference amongst several nations to settle issues resulting from the First Indochina War and the Korean War -
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty between the Soviet Union and several of its satellite states made to oppose NATO.
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Ended November 10th 1956.
The Hungarian Revolution was one of the first violent civilian protests against a communist government. -
The 1960 U2 Incident was when a Soviet Air Base shot down an American U2 spy plane.
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Ended April 19th, 1961.
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA-backed Cuban rebels. -
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Ended October 28, 1962.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day period of incredible tense foreign relations between the US and the USSR when the USSR's plan to arm their Cuban air base with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against America. -
Ngo Dinh Diem was the leader of Vietnam at the time and while his death did not put an end to the conflict, it was a significant victory for the rebels.
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John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Lee Harvey Oswald for reasons that remain unclear. This was a shock to the US as we scrambed to elect a new leader capable of dealing with the foreign conflict.
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After the Tonkin Gulf Incident, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was signed, giving President Lyndon Johnson free reign to do as he saw fit to retaliate and promote peace in southeast Asia.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the American Attack strategy in Vietnam to use napalm and agent orange to destroy the jungle that GI's were frequently killed in, and drive the rebels out into the open.
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This was one of the largest military operations in the Vietnam War, in which the Viet Cong began a campaign of hits and ambushes against military and civilian command center all throughout South Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King Jr., revolutionary, scholar and preacher was fatally shot by a James Earl Ray in 1968, which only stoked the continuous black power movement.
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Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot by a Sirhan Sirhan in 1968 shortly after winning the California Presidential Primaries
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Ended Sept. 20th, 1968.
Czechoslovakia was invaded by Warsaw Pact members in order to bolster the Soviet sphere of influence. -
These riots were perpetrated by tens of thousands of Vietnam protesters in Chicago as the Democratic Party fails to reach a conclusion on it's stance on Vietnam.
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a big mistake :/
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On Kent State campus, four college student Vietnam protesters were fatally shot by policemen sent to settle the rioting. This shocked not only America but the troops in Vietnam, showing the real divisiveness of this conflict.
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Nixon's visit to China was of strategic and diplomatic importance, and a large step towards accomplishing Vietnamization.
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This officially marks the end of the American presence in the Vietnam War, becoming an ugly loss in our nations history, and a huge sacrifice of life over unclear objectives.
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The Fall of Saigon marked the real end of the Vietnam war, as rebels capture the capital of South Vietnam.
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And with Reagan's Election, one segment of American history ends and opens into another, as focus from the Vietnam War and the so called 'War on Drugs' is soon to be shifted to the War on Terror.
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