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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a time of upheaval that ended with overthrowing the Russian Monarch. The bread riot was a key point that started it as there was not enough food to feed the country. After the Monarchy is overthrown two groups fought for power over Russia. The Bolsheviks, communist, won over the Mensheviks, who thought like a democracy, which scared the world due to the communist's new power. -
long telegram
The Long Telegram was an 8000-word dispatch sent by George Kennan to Washington that deciphered the Soviet rule. It explained how Stalin depicted the outside world and dangerous and menacing and that Russia was the safe place to be. It also depicted that the Russians would be sensitive to pushback and would surrender if force was used. -
iron curtain
The Iron Curtain was like a blind for the people of Russia. Stalin kept information from the people of Russia and stated that Russia is the good guy while the U.S. and other countries are bad, dangerous, and cannot be trusted. He kept the Russian people unaware and blind to what he was truly doing. -
Potsdam conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting between the three allied powers after WWII. It ensured that the U.S. and Britain were allies but also made the Soviet Union seem questionable. It was the last meeting between the U.S. and Soviet leaders. -
atomic bombs
The Atomic Bomb was not only used as a weapon but also as a scare tactic for any country they were at war with. Most Countries new Truman had the Atomic Bomb, but many were in shock when he actually used it. The Soviet Union leader knew that he had to not cross the line so that Truman would use the atomic bomb on the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the shipment of aid to the German capital of Berlin. In fact, a plane landed and took off every thirty seconds during the Berlin Airlift. After the Berlin Blockade had been implemented the Allied Western powers decided it would be best to ship supplies by air. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten was a group of men who were members of the Hollywood film industry who denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was a system thought up by the Soviet Union to help provide aid and rebuild Eastern European countries that were allied with the Soviet Union. It was basically the Marshall Plan made by the Soviet Union. -
Truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was President Truman's appeal to Congress to send aid to countries like Greece and Turkey to help fight the war against Communism. It symbolized a change in U.S. foreign policy and was a large step in winning the war against communism after Western Europe pulled out of the fight. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy. He was convicted of perjury as his espionage conviction had expired. Before the trial, he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. -
NATO
NATO was formed by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide security against the Soviet Union. After the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security fearing of an attack from the Soviet Union they formed an alliance with the U.S. to ensure their security. -
Rosenberg trial
BothJulius and Ethel Rosenburg were convicted of espionage connected to the Soviet Union. They were connected and helped with the Manhattan Project which was a highly classified project that had to be made certain no Soviet Spies were apart of. Passed information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. He was an electrical engineer. In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage. They were executed in 1953 by means of the electric chair -
Berlin blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major moves of the Cold War. It entailed the blockage of Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. It cut off all food and supplies to the capital of Berlin. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall plan was directed to aid countries affected by war by helping relieve starvation and poverty in fear that the countries would lean towards the Soviet Union for help. Although the price of the plan would be a high 12 billion dollars for countries to pay back, all but the Soviet Union and it's satellite states refused. -
First soviet bomb test
The First Soviet Bomb Test was a major wake-up call for the U.S. and Western Europe. The bomb test occurred months ahead of the projected schedule which gave the Soviet Union confidence that they could fight back against the US. -
Chinese communist revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution ensued shortly after the Soviet Union's Atomic bomb test. About five-hundred million Chinese citizens fell under Communist rule after Mao Zedong prospered through a decade long civil war. -
Korean War
The Korean War stemmed from the Cold War and the Soviet Union's and US's rivalry, each power took Korean territory which ultimately split the country into two. In the North, the communist influence showed while in the South a more Democratic influence could be detected. A the start of the war the unequipped and unprepared South Korea was taking quite the beating until U.S. forces dispatched and pushed back against the North Korean fighters. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The McCarthy hearings were a set of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy believed many people involved with the government, he even made a list of over a hundred people he thought to be communist -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the organization of NATO along with the Soviets pure want to keep control of Eastern and Central Europe. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolution that combated the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The initial revolt began as a student protest which slowly elevated into the entire country participating.The students tried to broadcast certain demands they had at a broadcast station but were quickly detained and fired upon with one student dying. The revolt then quickly spread causing the government to collapse. -
U2 incident
Powers was 1,300 miles inside Soviet territory when one of them locked on and exploded close enough to deal his plane a fatal blow. “Suddenly, there was a dull ‘thump,’” he later wrote in a memoir, “the aircraft jerked forward, and a tremendous orange flash lit the cockpit and the sky.” Powers’ U-2 broke apart and began hurtling toward the ground. The plane had a self-destruct switch, but he was unable to reach it before breaking open his canopy and bailing out. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Approximately 250,000 Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night, with Romania and Albania refusing to participate. East German forces, except for a small number of specialists, did not participate in the invasion because they were ordered from Moscow not to cross the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion. -
nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation. Nixon's historic visit began the slow process of re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Reagan is elected
Screen Actors Guild presidency When the SAG president and six board members resigned in March 1947 due to the union's new bylaws on conflict of interest, Reagan was elected president in a special election. He was subsequently re-elected six times, in 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1959. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit, the first meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was held on November 19 and 20, 1985. The two leaders met to discuss the Cold War-era arms race, primarily the possibility of reducing the number of nuclear weapons. Hosted in Geneva, Switzerland, the meeting was the first American-Soviet summit in more than six years. -
"Tear down this wall speech"
"Tear down this wall", also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, is a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward. -
SDI Announced
Reagan announced SDI in a nationally televised speech, stating "I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." It was set up in 1984 and developed a number of weapons that would end a war in near minutes. +$100 Billion
