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Russian Revolution
Russian people, tired of poverty, hunger and war, start a rebellion against the Russian Empire, which collapse with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II. After this, a provisional (socialist) Government is set and hold Russia for few month of frequent protests and strikes. Meanwhile the new government was fighting WWI against Germany. In October, the "second" Revolution starts and the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrow the Government and establish the RSFSR (a communist movement). -
Russian Revolution
Russian people, tired of poverty, hunger and war, start a rebellion against the Russian Empire, which collapse with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II. After this, a provisional (socialist) Government is set and hold Russia for few month of frequent protests and strikes. Meanwhile the new government was fighting WWI against Germany. In October, the "second" Revolution starts and the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, overthrow the Government and establish the RSFSR (a communist movement). -
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Soviet atomic bomb test
The Soviet project to develop an atomic bomb was a top-secret research and development program begun during World War II in the wake of the Soviet Union's discovery of the American, British, and Canadian nuclear project. -
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Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, after WWII, occupied Germany. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The goals of the conference included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, after WWII, occupied Germany. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The goals of the conference included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war.
The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S. Truman. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima
On August 6, the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type (Little Boy) bomb on Hiroshima, and American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan's surrender, warning it to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth." This is the result of the Manhattan project, that was trying to defeat Japan using as less soldiers as U.S could and make surrender the Japanese. -
Atomic bomb - Nagasaki
On August 9, 3 day after Hiroshima, a plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians. -
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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was 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. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was 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. -
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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. It can be seen to be the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey with economic free "gifts". The Truman Doctrine became the foundation of American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect. -
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. It can be seen to be the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan, which for political reasons the Eastern European countries would not be able to join without leaving the Soviet sphere of influence. -
Hollywood ten
In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion ($120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning April 8, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of communism. -
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Marshall plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion ($120 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning April 8, 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) 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. -
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Berlin blackade
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) 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. -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the Berlin Blockade, the Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin; a difficult feat, given the size of the city's population. Aircrews from United States, the Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day. The Soviets did not disrupt the airlift for fear this might lead to open conflict. -
Alger Hiss process
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a soviet spy in 1948. -
Nato foundation
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO), is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty, signed on 4 April 1949, since URSS was expanding its territories in eastern Europe. The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. United States, France and the United Kingdom are permanent members with the power to veto and nuclear-weapon states. -
Soviet atomic bomb test
The Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, codenamed First Lightning, on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk. With the success of this test, the Soviet Union became the second nation after the United States to detonate a nuclear device. -
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Korean war
The Korean War ("Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) 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. The invasion is blocked and the 38th parallel return to be the boundary between north and south Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed, in June 19th 1953, for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. They were instrumental in the transmission of information about top-secret military technology and prototypes of mechanisms related to the atomic bomb, which were of value to the Soviet nuclear weapons program and also provided top-secret radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the Soviet Union. -
Korean war
The Korean War ("Fatherland Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) 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. The invasion is blocked and the 38th parallel return to be the boundary between north and south Korea. -
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 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. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations underway at Geneva among several nations over the future of Indochina. -
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The 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 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. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations underway at Geneva among several nations over the future of Indochina. -
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Geneva conference
The Geneva Conference (4/26 – 7/20, 1954) was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, in order to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. The Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China were participants throughout the conference, while other countries concerned were represented during the discussion of questions of interest to them. -
The Army-McCarhy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva conference
The Geneva Conference (4/26 – 7/20, 1954) was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, in order to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. The Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China were participants throughout the conference, while other countries concerned were represented during the discussion of questions of interest to them. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
Geneva Conference 1955
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland."The Big Four" took part: President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France . The purpose was to bring together world leaders to begin discussions on peace. Although those discussions led down many different roads, the talks were influenced by the common goal for increased global security. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II. -
U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft was performing photographic aerial and spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union. -
Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military (made up of Cuban exiles who traveled to the United States after Castro's takeover), trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Forces, under the command of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration. -
The Cuban Missiles Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) 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. The confrontation is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, on November 2, 1963, was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. Up until the deaths of the Ngo brothers, the United States had been ‘advising the government of South Vietnam in its war against the Viet Cong and their benefactors, the government of North Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was fatally shot in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dallas' Dealey Plaza, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. Fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became President upon Kennedy's death. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland – on the night of 20–21 August 1968. Approximately 250,000 Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night, with Romania and Albania refusing to participate -
Riots of Democratic convention
The 1968 Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held on August 26–29. As President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election.The purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate. The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, civil unrest and riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King.The convention also followed the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. -
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Riots of Democratic convention
The 1968 Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held on August 26–29. As President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election.The purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate. The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, civil unrest and riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King.The convention also followed the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State protest
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre) were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, by members of the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
Nixon visits China
President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China. -
Caesefire of Vietnam
A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, returned to Washington from Paris with a draft peace proposal. By January 27, 1973, all warring parties in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
The Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic. -
Regan election
Reagan, a Republican, served as the 40th President of the United States (1981–89) and earlier as the 33rd Governor of California (1967–75). -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. -
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 engaged in long, personal talks and seemed to develop a sincere and close relationship. Six agreements were reached and both Reagan and Gorbachev expressed satisfaction with the summit, which ended on November 21, 1985. -
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 which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.
