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The Iron Curtain Speech
This was a speech about the Soviet policies give by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In this speech Churchill said that the United States and Great Britain should have a "special relationship" in which the U.S. was less than enthusiastic about. Churchill advised on how to deal with the Soviets and said "nothing which the admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness". -
The Truman Doctrine
This was established by Harry S. Truman, and said that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal forces. -
Hollywood Ten Hearings
Members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Acivities Committee. -
The Molotov Plan
A system created by the Soviet Union to help rebuild countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviets. -
The Marshall Plan
This was an American initiative to aid Western Europe. The U.S. gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild after the war. -
The Berlin Airlift
U.S., British, and the Soviet Union occupied Germany. The Soviet Union Blocked rail, road, and water access to allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The U.S. and the UK airlifted food and fuel to allied airbases in western Germany. -
The Burlin Blockade
This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. This constitutes a system of collective defense where is members respond to an attack by any external party. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviets conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, code named First Lightning -
Alger Hiss Case
Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and editor with Time magazine, testified the Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. -
Rosenburg Case
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were two U.S. citizens who were spies for the Soviet Union. They were tried, convicted, and then executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Korean War
This began when North Korea invaded South Korea, and the U.S. came to assist South Korea. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The French wanted to draw out the Vietnamese then destroy them. The French ended up being defeated by the Vietnamese. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
A series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva Conference
Took place in Geneva,Switzerland, the purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle the issues in the Korean peninsula and maybe restoring peace in Indochina. -
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Vietnam
North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
The Invasion of Hungary
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
Occurred during the Cold War, during Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
This was a failed military invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1962. -
The Berlin Wall
The Communist government of German Republic began building a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 13 Days
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted 13 days (October 16-28, 1962). There was a confrontation between the U.S. and he Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey, so the Soviet Union decided to put ballistic missiles in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was assassinated on November 2, 1963 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas Texas. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any Measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and keep international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
China Nuclear Test
China tested its first nuclear test at Lop Nur on October 16, 1964. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
A gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division -
TET Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Launched on January 30, 1968, by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968 on Los Angeles, California. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union lead the Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to make an effort on reformist trends in Prague. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that he would no seek re-election. The purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee. -
Election of Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was elected President of the United States on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. He won over the Democratic nominee Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State Shooting
This was a shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970 at Kent State University. -
Nixon Visits China
President Richard Nixon visited the People's Republic of China in February of 1972. This allowed the American public to view China for the first time. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The cease-fire went into effect on January 27, 1973. Saigon controlled about 75% of South Vietnamese Army and 85% of the population. South Vietnam continued to receive support after the cease-fire went into effect. -
Fall of Saigon
This event ended the war in Vietnam and started the transitional period of the reunification of Vietnam. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was elected on November 4, 1980 -
Announcement of SDI ('Star Wars')
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a missile defense system that was going to be made to protect the U.S. from ballistic missile attacks. This defense system was going to be space based and was named 'Star Wars'. The Soviets thought this was a was a way to unleash nuclear warfare and they also thought of this as an immediate offense. -
1st Geneva Conference
Reagan and Gorbachev reached an agreement to reduce nuclear weapons -
'Tear Down This Wall' Speech
This speech was made by President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin, Reagan called out the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, telling him to tear down the Berlin wall that divided West ans East Berlin.
