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After being in control by Mao Zedong, in 1949, the proclamation of the People's republic of China -
gathering to decide how to administer Germany, solving issues on the peace treaty -
The bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki introduced the beginning of the Atomic Age. -
It was the first Indochina war that occurred between the months of March and May. In the end, France agrees to withdraw from what is now Vietnam -
While he was in Moscow, George Kennan sent an 8,000-word telegram to the Department—the now-famous “long telegram”—on the aggressive nature of Stalin's foreign policy. -
American and Western European opposition to communism and the Soviet Union. In his speech, Winston Churchill went on to argue that having strong American-British relations was essential to stopping the spread of communism. -
In the United States during the early years of the Cold War, the blacklist involved the practice of denying employment to entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been Communists or sympathizers. -
This was a declaration that the U.S would provide political, military, and economic assistance to other democratic countries under the threat of external and internal invasions -
This was a plan to help prevent the spread of communism among the desperate countries, stabilize the international order in a way that favored the development of political democracy and free-market economies. -
The Soviet Union cuts off access from Western Forces. It was Stalin's attempt at starving Berlin into submission. -
Massive airlift to counter the Soviets blocking Berlin -
The Soviets tested their first hydrogen bomb test, -
Alger Hiss was an American government official accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union during the 1930s. -
This was an official treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance
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North Korea invaded South Korea because the two wanted to reunite, but did not want the same form of government. This resulted in conflict, and due to the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. got involved to help prevent the spread of communism -
The legal trial leads to the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for sharing secret atomic information with the Soviet Union. -
This agreement brought about a complete cess of hostilities and all acts of armed forces until a final peace settlement is issued. -
An investigation conflicting accusations between Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused him of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment. -
This was a countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government -
A U.S. U2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviets when it was preforming photography deep inside Soviet territory -
This was a failed land invasion on the southwestern coast of Cuba. Its failure led to major shifts in international relations between Cuba, the United States, and the Soviet Union. -
The Berlin Wall was constructed to separate the Western parts of Germany from the Eastern parts. -
This was a one-month and four-day interaction between the U.S and the Soviet Union were their threats of nuclear war. -
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas during a presidential motorcar ride. He was shot in the head by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
This was considered a "blank check" in the Vietnam war allowed President Johnson to increase U.S. involvement in the war without having stated a declaration of war. -
It was an event in which North Vietnam launched a large attack on South Vietnam that gave them an advantage -
This Democratic convention was held during a year of riots, Lyndon Johnson announced his plan to not rerun for president, thus making the convention about finding a new Democratic candidate to represent the Democratic party. This caused protests which resulted in violent fights back. -
This was the killing and injury of Kent State University students during a peace rally opposing the expansion of the Vietnam war. -
This documentation agreed that all would ceasefire, but only some of the ideologies were honored. North Vietnam conquered the Southern territories. The North did release all U.S. prisoners of war and the U.S. removed their military forces from South Vietnam -
North Vietnam captured South Vietnam's capital, Saigon, marking the end of the Vietnam war, and the reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. -
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter. -
Reagan announces his " Star Wars" plan proposing that he had military defenses that included missiles. -
Ronald Reagon called for Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, it became widely known as the "fall of the Berlin wall" in 1989. -
This marked the opening of the Iron curtain and started the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe, declaring the end of the Cold war three weeks later.