Early Cold War

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power.
  • Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki this show that the Allied strength was unstoppable.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by the USSR or communist insurrection.
  • Molotov Plan

    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.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10

    10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    It 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 and west Berlin.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    A military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany witch surrounded West Berlin.
  • NATO

    NATO

    It is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II.
  • Soviet bomb test

    Soviet bomb test

    It was as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapons.
  • Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss case

    He was an American government official that was suspected of being a Communist spy.
  • Rosenburg trial

    Rosenburg trial

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union.
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    America was fighting north Korea for invading south Korea.
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    It was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's and the Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings

    It were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate
  • Geneva Conference

    Geneva Conference

    The Geneva Conference was in Geneva Switzerland hints the name.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    It was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government.
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident

    The U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

    President Eisenhower authorized the CIA to recruit 1,400 Cuban exiles living in Miami and begin training them to be fighters.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuba had missile sites and was threatening to missile America.
  • Assassination of Die

    Assassination of Die

    Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were captured and killed by a group of North Vietnam soldiers.
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK

    JFK was shot in the head by a sniper named Lee Harvey Oswald when he as at parade.
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution approving and supporting President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to repel any armed attack against U.S. forces in Southeast Asia.
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    It was a Operation that The U.S dropped bombs on North Vietnam bases.
  • Assassination of MLK*

    Assassination of MLK*

    MLK was killed when he was making a speech by a man named James Earl Ray.
  • Assassination of RFK

    Assassination of RFK

    Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary.
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague.
  • Riots of Democratic convention

    Riots of Democratic convention

    4 collage students were shot by National Guard.
  • Election of Nixon

    Election of Nixon

    The Republican named Nixon was Elected as President.
  • Kent State

    Kent State

    Kent state was a Collage.
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China

    Nixon and his wife visits communist China and is the first U.S president to visit.
  • Ceasefire in Vietnam

    Ceasefire in Vietnam

    It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam.
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon

    It was the capture of ,the capital South Vietnam by the People's Army of north Vietnam.
  • Reagan elected

    Reagan elected

    Reagan was elected on February 6,1980
  • SDI announced

    SDI announced

    The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system.
  • Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    It was a meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Gorbachev.
  • Tear down this wall’ speech

    Tear down this wall’ speech

    President Ronald Reagan made a speech in West Berlin on June 12, 1987 to Mikhail Gorbachev to open up the wall which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin wall separated the free and democratic West Berlin from captives of communist East Berlin.
  • Fall of Berlin Wall*

    Fall of Berlin Wall*

    The Berlin wall fell on November 9, 1989 and east and west Germany were united.