-
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948, and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. In January 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years. Hiss maintained his innocence until his death. -
Russian revolution
The Russian revolution started on March 8th 1917, Tsar Nicholas II sent his troops to fight without food or ammunition during world war 1. the middle class people and the peasants revolted to overthrow Tsar, but then tried a democratic point but then got replaced with capitalism which was then replaced with communism. The revolution ended on Wednesday November 7th. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was when Truman, Churchill, and Stalin met to secure political freedom and democratic governments throughout the divide. After the meeting Stalin still didn't agree with the democratic beliefs and was determined to take over all of Europe and impose communism on its nations. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The bombs killed about 129,000 people in which most were civilians. The U.S \ was the first to use the bomb, so this leads to U.S becoming higher power. -
Iron Curtain
The curtain is the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas, -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan provided aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union or the USSR version of the Marshall plan. Their belief was that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states by making countries dependent on the United States. -
Hollywood 10
Ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. They were given sentences of six months to one year in prison. -
Marshall Plan
A plan to aid the Europeans and the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild western Europe after World War 2. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions,take away trade barriers, make Europe great again, and prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet guards halted all passenger trains and traffic on the autobahn to Berlin, delayed Western and German freight shipments and required that all water transport secure special Soviet permission and blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The blockade ended in 1949 on May 12th. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. They offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman doctrine is a document that represented change in foreign policy and support for the free people. The Truman doctrine supported the countries Greece and Turkey. They donated food, machines, technical support, coal, nets, and money. While they benefited from the goods, Stalin refused the help from the U.S. -
NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.Three NATO members, the United States, France and the United Kingdom, are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and are officially nuclear-weapon states. -
Soviet bomb test
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first successful weapon test (First Lightning), based on the U.S. design at the Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. -
Korean War
A war between North and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, following a series of clashes along the border. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the North. -
Rosenburg trial
The trial of the Rosenbergs began on March 6, 1951, with judge Irving Kaufman presiding. U.S. Attorney Irving Saypol prosecuted for the Southern District of New York. Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Army-McCarthy hearings are a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The two sides of the hearing:
US Army (accusing their opponents of blackmail)
Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine (accusing the Army of communism). -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954 and it was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.The Warsaw Pact was primarily put in place as a consequence of the rearming of West Germany inside NATO. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The revolution lasted from the 23rd of October to the 10th of November of 1956 -
U2 Incident
U2 Incident was when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace, the airplane was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance, when it was hit by a soviet missile. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The bay of pigs invasion was a failed invasion that took place on the southern coast of Cuba. The plan was that the Cuban people and the Cuban military would support the invasion. The goal was the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a barrier that divided east and west Berlin. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population and conspiring to prevent the people in building a socialist state in East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis is a 13-day confrontation 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. -
Assassination of Diem
On 2 November 1963, Diệm and his adviser, his younger brother Ngô Đình Nhu, were arrested. The Ngô brothers surrendered and were promised safe exile but after being arrested, they were instead executed in the back of an armoured personnel carrier by ARVN officers on the journey back to military headquarters at Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza with his wife Jacqueline, John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, and he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a joint resolution "To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia." it was special because it gave Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder is a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet offensive was made on January 30 1968, and was a military campaign of the Vietnam War. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. it ended on March 28, 1968 -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr, who was a civil rights leader, was shot in Memphis Tennessee on April 4 1968 , 49 years ago, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was pronounced dead on June 5, 1968 and was shot at the ambassador hotel in Los Angeles at the 1968 election and was pronounced dead the next day. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion of Czechoslovakia consisted of Warsaw pact troops attacking Czechoslovakia and leaving 137 Czechoslovakian people dead and 500 wounded during the invasion. The invasion was from 20 August 1968 – 21 August 1968. -
Riots of Democratic convention
On august 26-29th of 1968, a democratic convention was held.
Outside the convention, anti-war demonstrators fought with 11,900 Chicago police, 7500 Army troops, 7500 Illinois National Guardsmen and 1000 Secret Service agents for 5 days. the riots were set on: the Chicago police make protesters leave areas where they were not allowed to go and protesters fighting with police, and their team. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon ran for president on November 5 1968, he ran as a republican of New York. He received 301 electorial votes, carried 32 states, and had a 43.4 percentage. -
Kent State
In Kent state university on may 4 1970, people of the Ohio National Guard shot at a crowd placed to protest the Vietnam War. after the shooting a student-led strike forced the colleges and universities cross country to close temporarily. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon in Beijing ended 25 years of not communicating between U.S. and china, and also keeping the relationship friendly. his visit was from February 21 to 28, 1972, he called his visit "the week that changed the world". -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 15, 1973, President Nixon from the US ordered a ceasefire of the overhead bombings in North Vietnam, because Henry Kissinger returned from France with a peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
Saigon was captured on 30 April 1975 by the peoples army of Vietnam and Vietcong, because of this the Vietnam war ended, and the Reuniting of Vietnam. -
Reagan elected
Regan was elected president on January 20, 1981 and was in office till January 20, 1989. he called to reduce a tax rate to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reducing government spending. He was succeeded by George W. Bush. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a thought of a missile defense system supposed to protect the United States from attacks by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons from other countries -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev the conference was between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and they met for the first time to talk about international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
‘Tear down this wall’ speech is a speech made by President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, this speech called for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Fall of Berlin Wall occurred on November 9 1989, The reunification of East and West Germany was made official on October 3, 1990, almost one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
