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russian revolution (1917)
revolution in russia of 1917 was a pair of revolutions that -
Soviet Bomb Test
the classified and authorized russian nuclear weapon test project authorized by joseph stalin to counter the americans that already had a nuclear bomb, and displayed their willingness to use it. -
postdam conference
The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, it was used to determine how to divide germany -
atomic bomb
these bombs were created and tested to stop the war against japan -
Iron Curtain
it was the name of the boundary of the land division between russian and allies parts of europe -
Hollywood 10
the hollywood 10 where 10 people who made the blacklistees -
Truman Doctrine
it was a american document to counter Russian geopolitical expansion. -
Marshall plan
it was an american initiative to aid western Europe to assist them in the fight against communism and the Russians -
Berlin blockade and airlift
the first major test of the marshall plan and truman doctrine. the americans flew in supplies to keep the citizens inside the russian blockade with food and water and money to keep them from changing to communism -
Eisenhowers massive retaliation policy
it is if attack by a aggressor is to retaliate with disproportionate attack force -
Nato
the North atlantic treaty organization, is a international goverment military alliance -
Detente under nixon
detente is the erasing of strained relations so nixon used this to erase some tensions he created -
Korean War
The war was started in the cold war when the Korean peninsula was split into 2, then the north koreans invaded the south koreans -
Khrushchev takes over
He lead the soviet union in part of the cold war, being as the first secretary of the communist party of the soviet union -
Army-McCarthy hearings
series of hearings with the united states secretary subcommittee of investigation. they were to investigate conflictiong accusations of the us army and senator McCarthy -
warsaw pact
used to be called the Treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance was a collective defense system signed in warsaw poland as a peacy treaty between germany and russia -
The Vietnam War
it was a war between the anti communist south veitnam and north vietnam. to keep communism from taking over south vietnam -
Hungarian revolution
a nation wide revolt against the marxist government of the hungarian peoples republic and its soviet imposed policies -
U2 incident
a s-75 dvina shot down a U2 spy plane while it was on a reconassance mission deep in russian territoty -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
a failed military invasion of cuba by the CIA, to overthrow the increasingly communist government in cuba. -
Berlin Wall
the wall the Russians built to physically and ideologically divide berlin between the allies and russia -
Cuban missile crisis
a part of the cold war where russia was trying to put nuclear missiles inside cuba because the us had missiles in turkey and italy. it ultimatly ended with with drawl of missiles from all 3 places -
Reagans berlin wall speech
the most famous speech of reagan calling to gorbachof the tear down the berlin wall to create peace -
fall of the berlin wall
the russians and hungarians finally began to deconstruct the walls in 1989, and the berlin wall fell soon after, freeing the trapped eastern berliners -
The Reagon Doctrine
an attempt to overwhelm the russians to end the cold war
