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Russian Revolution
The revolution lasted from March to November of 1917. This revolution marked the beginning of the Cold War because the U.S did not want communism to spread and because of that, the U.S and the Soviet Union had a lot of tensions. -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting between the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the U.S President Harry Truman. And at this meeting they discussed the ending of WWII but this event played a large role in the Cold War because Harry Truman admitted to the successful testing of our secret weapon, the atomic bomb. -
Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima
An important date in U.S history, a United States B-29 bomber jet dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb killed many people and destroyed most of the city. -
Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Three days after the U.S dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, we dropped a second one on Nagasaki. Because of this bomb, Japan finally surrendered to the U.S in WWII -
Iron Curtain
In March of 1946, the Soviet Union divided Europe with the Iron Curtain. Eastern Europe was under communism while Western Europe was allied with the U.S. -
Hollywood 10
A group on motion picture directors, producers, and writers refused to give up any information connecting them to the communists. The Hollywood Blacklist was then created and those thought to be part of communism were denied anymore jobs. -
Truman Doctrine
U.S President Harry Truman declared the Truman Doctrine to be the new U.S foreign policy. We would now supply aid to any country to stop the spread of Communism. -
Marshall Plan
Harry Truman signed a bill to provide five million dollars to 16 Europe nations to rebuild war regions and continue to prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Soviet Union attempted to block the U.S and other countries from bringing in goods to Berlin. That is then when we decided to airlift goods to Berlin because they couldn't stop us without shooting down our planes which would then cause war to break out. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, otherwise known as NATO was formed as an expectation to stop communist expansion. It included the United States and 11 other Western nations. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union successfully exploded their first atomic bomb, which out U.S citizens into a panic about safety for their lives. In response the U.S then expanded on their amount of nuclear weapons. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between South and North Korea that began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The US and the UN came to aid South Korea while China came for North Korea. -
Khrushchev Takes over
After the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, The Soviet government announced that Nikita Khrushchev had been selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev’s selection was a crucial first step in his rise to power in the Soviet Union -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The US Senates Subcommittee on Investigations held a series of hearings regarding conflicting accusations between the US Army and Us senator Joseph McCarthy. He had turned his investigations to army security and accused them of having communism ties but the army turned it on him and charged him with false evidence and improper accusations. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy
President Eisenhower adopted a foreign policy of “massive retaliation.” This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail. -
Warsaw Pact
A collective defensive treaty between East Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. It was the 'treaty of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance'. But it was later dissolved in July of 1991. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. But Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
Hungarian Revolution
The people of Hungary rebelled against the oppression of the Soviet Union, but the soviet shut it down forcefully and took control again. -
U2 Incident
The Soviet Socialist Republics shot down a US U-2 spy plane in soviet air space and captured the pilot. President Eisenhower was then forced to admit that the US has been flying spy planes over USSR for years. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
It was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. Around 1200 exiles with American weapons waited ashore the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, but quickly fell apart and the landing force met with the Cuban air force who sank most of the exiles ships but the US did not provide any air support and the expected uprising didn't happen. -
Berlin Wall
The communist government of East Germany began to build a concrete wall between East and West Berlin to keep Western fascists from entering communist East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. John Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. -
Detente under Nixon
Period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the SALT treaties. Relations cooled again with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
Reagan traveled to Berlin, stood i front of the wall and stated, "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Easter Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After Reagan's speech, people were free to enter and leave because blockades were taken down, and civilians came and began tearing down the wall with their hands and hammers to signify their new sense of freedom.
