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House un american activities
(1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". -
Mcarthy trials
was the practice of making accusations of pro-Communist, anti-American disloyalty, subversion, or treason, which defenders of those accused consider to be without proper regard for evidence. -
The marshall plan
was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism.[1 -
Chinese civil war
1927-1949/1950) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party), the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) (also known as CCP - Chinese Communist Party),[6] for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China (ROC) and People's Republic of China (PRC -
Berlin Airlift
1948–49, supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under U.S. auspices. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
In the "Iron Curtain speech" Winston Churchill drew attention to the fundamental split in Europe between the Eastern Bloc and the West, though at that stage (March 1946) there were no formal alliances -
Rosenberg trials
(September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) were American communists who were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war -
Gulf of tonkin resolution
or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now realized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Hungarian revoltution of 1956
was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Soviet invasion of afgahnistan
was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan[19] against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers. -
Cuban revolution of 1959
began with the failed attack on the Moncada Barracks, and ended in triumph with the ousting of dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
U2 incident
occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Creation of the berlin wall
was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as the October Crisis in Cuba or Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Kарибский кризис) in the USSR) was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
Tet offensive
was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. Regular and irregular forces of the People's Army of Vietnam fought against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. -
Warsaw pact invasion of Czecoslovakia
On the night of 20–21 August 1968, the Soviet Union and her main satellite states in the Warsaw Pact – Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary and Poland – invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in order to halt Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring political liberalization reforms.[3] -
Nixon visits china
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. -
Fall of saigon
was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. -
Strategic defence intiative
was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,[1] to use ground- and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. T -
History of the soviet union
spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. -
Summer olympics boycott
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.[1] It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist friendly countries.