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Alger Hiss Case- (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
Alger Hiss was sending documents to the Soviet Union during World War ll. The Rosenberg's were communists working for the government. The Rosenberg's were accused of sending files of how to build atomic bombs to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to death. Both of them died in the electric chair for sending the government files to the soviet union because they couldn't prove that they weren't communists . -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was about political and social revolution across the terrority of the Russian Empire which started with the overthrown of monarchy and ended with the establishment of the Soviet Union by the Bolsheviks and the end of the civil war. -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The building of the atomic bomb project was called the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project produced the worlds first nuclear explosion. The maker of the bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer. The president gave the order to drop the final bomb on Nagasaki. President Truman could see the decades of the cold-war in the future and just fear growing -
First Soviet bomb test
The Soviet Atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II -
Potsdam Conference
Truman was bond for Europe for a meeting of the grand alliance 3 allied powers of world war 2. It was the control of defeating Germany , monumental issues confronted Turman and his wartime partners. Security a lasting piece for Europe. The allies have won the war but their alliance did not survive the peace. -
Long Telegram
Churchill raised the alarm warning communism was on the march again in Europe. Churchill words grew cretinism on both sides of the British and the Americans. And the soviet union was acting more like enemies than allies. George Kennan rights a 8000 word telegram to the united states -
Iron Curtain
The Iron curtain was descended and behind it all the capitals lied of the accent states of central and eastern Europe. Neither of the wars were ready for a war. Stalin hand picked people for the war until the hard line communist remand. Mass explosions were launched in the minds of people. Stalin warned his people that the war with the west was inevitable. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Union. It was created yo provide aid to rebuild the countries in eastern Europe that were were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. When the Molotov Plan was created it was first called the Brother Plan. Its basically the Soviet unions version of the Marshall Plan to the United States. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman said he believes it most be the policy of the united states to support the people who are resisting the free people of the world to help them remain being free other than turning into communism. -
Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall traveled to Europe. He witnessed first hand the physical ruined. He said under these conditions the citizens would turn to communism. Two month later he proposed a program of massive economic assistance. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin was the Germany capital. It was said what happened to Berlin happened to Germany and what happened to Germany happened Europe. Stalin ordered all land access into the city of west Berlin to be blocked off. Power to the city was turned off. Stalin wanted to to starve the people and drive them out. The united states ordered the Berlin Airlift to get the people in Berlin food. Each mission brought the threat of bringing the soviet union army. -
NATO
International Alliance that consists of 29 member state from north America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Altlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949 -
Rosenburg Trial
Rosenburg was executed for being a soviet spy. HIs wife and hisself were tried for espionage for sending classofoed information to the soviet union. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood 10 made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. The film was directed by Josh Berry -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Army- McCarthy Hearings
Series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigation conflicting accusations between the United states Army and U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Climactic Confrontation of the first Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries -
Geneva Conference
Conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina war. -
Warsaw Pact
Defense treaty signed in warsawm Poland between the Soviet Union and seven eastern Bloc satellite states of central and eastern in May 1955 -
Hungarian Revolution
Nationwide Revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 Incident
United states U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while preforming photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored rebel group brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missle Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American Discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'etat led by General Durong van Minh in November 1963 -
Assassination of JFK
35th President of the United states, was assassinated on November 22nd, 1963, at 12:30p.m. Central Standard time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motocrade through Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Gradual and Sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
The tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnam on cities and places in South Vietcong -
Assassination of MLK
American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4,1968, at 6:01 p.m. -
Assassination of REFk
Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Amassador Hotel in LOs Angeles. -
Election of Nixon
The 1968 United States Presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the democratic nominee, incumbent Vice president Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent state massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces -
Nixon visits China
Important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China after years of diplomatic isolation -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris, France with a Draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, The capital of South Vietnam , by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Vietcong. -
Reagan Elected
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter -
SDI Annouced
On 23 March 1983, 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 -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race -
"Tear down this wall" speech
U.S. president Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the general Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961 -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Month the Berlin wall was destroyed for people to be free to go on what side they want
