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Russian
During the Russian Revolution, many bank accounts and personal property were confiscated, farmers fields became collective farms, stores and shops were surrendered to the state, and arrest without charge was legal. Winston Churchill quoted, "We need to strangle the baby in the cradle." -
NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty) They were the first peacetime treaty organization in the war. This took place after the second world war when the destruction on Europe effected them so bad they could not pay to rebuild it all. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was code name for when they were going to bomb during Vietnam War. U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. -
Berlin Airlift
In 1948 Russia wanted Berlin all to them self so they blocked the city off so no one could go in our out.So they had no sources for food or supplies to come in, so the US gathered 2.3 million tons of supplies and dropped them through out the country.They were sending planes every 3 minutes. -
Potsdam Conference
During the Potsdam Conference, the big issue they were discussing the post war fate of Europe. Harry Truman spoke about what he wanted and he tells them he wants peace and prosperity for the world. But Joseph Stalin wanted the opposite he wanted to destroy Europe and bring communism to the people. -
Atomic Bomb
Stalin saw what the effects were from this atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan, and he saw Truman was not afraid to use it. Then he figured out his army had absolutely no match. This Atomic Bomb killed about 40,000 people. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the start of the first Indochina war which lasted for 1946-1954. During the war french forces captured Dien Bien Phu valley, commander Vo Nguyen Giap put many troops and placed heavy artillery over looking the french camps. -
Iron Curtain
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” This was meaning that they set up different blockades through the country that divided them in to two. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry let out information, employed by the House Un American Activities Committee, an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan also known as European Recovery Plan, this program gave over 13 billion for economic recovery in Europe from 1948-1951 . The plan was named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine represented a dramatic change in foreign policy. Truman wanted and asked for money support for Greece and Turkey. The US was also gonna help support the soviet union and there satellite but they refused. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of 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. -
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. -
Soviet Bomb Test
At a remote test site in Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, with code name First Lighting.To measure the bomb soviet scientist constructed building and other structures to see what the bomb would do to the building.The atomic explosion equaled 20 kilowatts. Which was the same as the "Trintey." -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was convicted of spying for the soviets before World War 2. He ended up serving 4 years in jail. The case began in 1948 when Chambers an ex Communist and editor for Time magazine testified and charged Hiss and saying he was also a communist. -
Korean War
The Korean war started when 75,000 troops from North Korea came across the 38th parallel.This was the first military invasion in the cold war.In July 1953 the Korean war finally came to an end. Some where around 5 million people lost there lives in the war. -
Rosenberg Trail
1951
The Rosenberg trial begins in New York federal court, Judge Kaufmen tries to get the prosecution of the couple who kept Russian Nuclear bomb secrets and sold them, but they could not be charged because the us was not at war with the soviets at the time. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
McCarthy had aggressive interrogations of people who he thought were Communists, he earned more listening through televised hearing in 1954. He used his investigations and gave them to the army security, after he did that the army charged him for using a bad influence to get a former staff member into trouble. -
Geneva Conference
People from the United States, Soviet Union, China, France and Great Britain came together in April of 1954 to help out with problems that Asia was having. The biggest problem was the very long and Gorey war between Vietnamese forces and France. They were both fight to keep and take control of Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The treaty involved Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. The treaty said that if any outside country's attacked any associated in the treaty would have to come to defense. And would be under the command of Marshal Ivan S Koven. -
Hungarian Revolution
This problem began in October of 1956, when thousands of people gathered on the streets to demand and force upon for more democratic and and soviet freedom. They tried to end it with peace and the soviets peacefully sent home their troops. Then Nagy decided that Hungry would not be apart of the Warsaw pact. -
U2 Incident
The USSR Shot down a american U2 spy plane over the soviet territory and captured the pilot Gary Powers. Then they brought evidence of his nations espionage. President Eisenhower was forced to tell soviets that the CIA had been spying on the USSR for a long time. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Fidel Castro took his army to war in Havana and took over General Fulgencio Batista. Then for the next two years The CIA watched him for years and they wanted to take the power away from him so in April of 1961 they launched a full scale invasion of Cuba, but Castro army took over in less than 24 hours. -
Berlin Wall
East Germany decided they would need to build a barbed wire and concrete wall that they called, “Antifascistischer Schutzwall” The wall separated east and west Berlin. They built the wall to keep the people from the west out of the east side and undermining the socialist state. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
US and Soviet Union got engaged with a 13 day military and political standoff in 1962, the installation of nucular armed forces on Cuba. Kennedy told Americans about the missiles, and about to have a naval blockade around Cuba and they were prepared to use force if necessary. -
Assassination of Diem
After Diem's government got over thrown him and his brother were captured by soldiers and were later assassinated. The death caused celebration along with much chaos. Then this caused the US to become more involved in Vietnam and there people, and tried to help stabilize there government. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was the 35th president and while in Dallas one day as he was driving through the town he was assassinated in an convertible, his wife was right next to him in the car. They were on a ten mile driving through out the streets and through Dallas.Vice president Lyndon Johnson was three cars behind. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tokin allowed Lyndon Johnson to do what ever it took to repel any attacks that were on the US and to cap off any chances of having further aggression. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of planned attacks that North Vietnam came up with and then used them on South Vietnam. It was trying to get the US to drop out of the Vietnam war. After many deaths the North finally accomplished the Tet Offensive. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK Jr was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee, this event sent shock to many people around the world. MLK was a Baptists Minister and the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, also know as (SCLC) He had also been a big part of the civil rights movements along with his biggest speech, "I have a Dream" -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in LA. It happened just after he won The California presidential primary.He was shot multiple times after he announced that the country would end the fractious divisions. He was shot by 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The night of August 20th, about 200,000 Warsaw pact troops and about 5000 tanks went in and invaded Czechoslovakia, and wanted to take over the "Prague Spring” Czechoslovakians protested and wanted everything to be peaceful they did not want a war. -
Riots of Democratic convention
On August 28 1968 the Democratic National Convention had a meeting in Chicago Illinois. Thousands of Vietnam war protesters gathered the streets and started fighting with the police. During this time the democratic party started to fall apart because of disagreements on the Vietnam stance. -
Election of Nixon
Eight years after losing to John F Kennedy, Nixon beats out Humphrey ,and becomes elected president. In the election Nixon beat Humphrey with 32 million votes. -
Kent State
On May 4 1970, 4 students were killed after being shot because of how the war was dividing people. During this time thousands of people stated protesting the war. One of the reasons were because of president Johnson, and the Gulf of tonkin incident that made the war get heated. -
Nixon visits China
President Nixon was trying to smooth out relations with PRC (People’s Republic of China) when he traveled to Beijing just so he could go talk to the people for a few weeks.His visit began to build back up the relations of the two countries. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 23 1973, a cease fire started at 8 am. Saigon controlled 75% of South Vietnam's territory and 85% of the population. The US sent the south Vietnamese weapons and troops to help them out. They also got supplies after the ceasefire was over. The CIA estimated that North Vietnam had 145,000 troops. -
Fall of Saigon
The surrender of Saigon was announced by the North Vietnamese president, General Duong Van Minh. Then on April 30th the North Vietnamese army took over Saigon again. then after it was taken over it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Minh City, after there leader. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan was an actor and a California governor, then he became the 40th president and served 2 terms of 4 years.He grew up in a small town in Illinois, and came to Hollywood to become an actor in his 20s, Then later became a republican Governor. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative, (SDI) also known as "Star Wars" was started by president Ronald Reagan. The Reason Behind this program was to create anti-ballistic missiles systems, so they could prevent missile attacks from other countries, they were mostly concerned about the soviet union. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The President of the USA and the leader of the soviet get to together for the first time in 8 years to have a meeting about a summit conference. During the meeting six agreements were reached after the two talked. The summit ended on November 21. -
Tear down this wall’ speech
Ronald Reagan was asked to write this speech on the 750th anniversary of the Berlin Wall. Queen Elizabeth had already visited the city. Mikhail Gorbachev was due in a matter of days. Although the President hadn't been planning to visit Berlin himself, he was going to be in Europe in early June -
Fall of Berlin Wall
German Democratic Republic Started to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall ". They used this wall to separate East and West of Berlin. This prevented people from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state
