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Russian Revolution
The U.S opposed of Communism because they were determined that the poor would start a revolution due to the problems between the upper classmen -
The Postdam Conference
The Postdam Conference was about determination to secure political freedom and democratic governments. Problems that emerged was the grwoing between the partners and Joseph Stallen's plan to take over Europe -
The Atomic Bomb
Atomic bomb would change warfare for allies to live in fear of having a confrontation that neither could afford. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. -
Iron Curtain
It was the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
The Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine tried preventing communism by the use of war. Truman supported economic support to European countries -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union's refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan or allow any of their satellite states to do so, because of their belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken Soviet interest in their satellite states and by making beneficiary countries economically dependent on the United States. The plan was a system of bilateral trade agreements which also established COMECON to create an economic alliance of socialist countries. -
Hollywood 10
10 individuals who defied House of Un-American Activities Committee, these individuals refused to answer questions. They were convicted of contempt and sent to Prison -
Marshall Plan
A European Recovery Program was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Berlin Blockade
Stallen blockaded all individual from leaving or coming into Berlin, including supplies so that he could force the western allies into submission -
Berlin Airlift
Due to Stallen blockading Berlin from getting any resources, the U.S stepped in and helped out by sending B-29's full of medical supplies, food, coal and candy for kids to keep their spirits up -
NATO
NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. NATO's main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of the Soviet Union taking control of their nation with communism -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
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 which made them worried for any future wars -
Alger Hiss Case
Hiss was convicted of being associated with communist actions when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor of Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. Chambers also declared that Hiss, during his work in the Department of State during the 1930s, had passed him top secret reports. Until his death at the age of 92 in 1996, Hiss never deviated from his claim of innocence. -
Rosenburg Trial
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 of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Army McCarthy Hearings
Senator McCarthy charged that he had a list of 200 “known communists” in the Department of State. This began his slow rise to fame a famous and feared communist hunter in the United States. He consistently manipulated the media, told even more outrageous stories concerning the communist conspiracy in the United States. In December 1954, the Senate voted to censure him for his conduct. Three years later, having become a hopeless alcoholic, he died. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states -
Hungarian Revolution
This Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 Incident
The incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista -
Berlin Wall
The wall was dividing the west of Berlin from the East and the soldiers were ordered to kill anyone who decided to come up to the wall. It divided the communists from Germany and the government until Reagan ordered it to be brought down in 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was 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 -
Korea War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. 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 gave some assistance
