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The Russian Revolution was a set of revolution to over throw the tsarists autocracy to create the Soviet Union.
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The Iron Curtain was the name for the border separating Europe into two different areas since 1945. The Iron Curtain separates Capitalism from communism, the iron curtain stayed up since 1945 to 1992
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The Potsdam conference was a conference for Britain, U.S., and the Soviet Union to discuss the end of WW2.
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During the end of WW2 the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on japan, one on Hiroshima and the second one on Nagasaki resulting in japans surrender
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The Hollywood 10 were Hollywood executive that were not willing to testify before congress.
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A plan enacted by the Soviet Union to rebuild eastern Europe.
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The Truman Doctrine was a plan to aid releif to countries in risk of falling to communism through money and military.
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The Berlin airlift ended the Soviet blockade around Berlin by dropping food and supplies with B-29s for the people of Berlin.
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The Marshal plan was a plan enacted by the U.S. to help the economy of Europe by loaning them 12 billion dollars to rebuild Europe.
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The Berlin Blockade was the first major international crisis of the cold war. The Berlin Blocked started because the Soviet Union wanted revenge on the Germans for WW1 and WW2 so they blocked all incoming resources like food and water.
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NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an organization that consists of 29 different countries ranging from North America to Europe. NATO was formed at the signing of the North Atlantic treaty.
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The first Soviet nuclear bomb test was code named by russians First lighting. This changed the Cold War because the Soviet Union had no reason to fear the U.S.
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Alger Hiss was an american government official in the state department that was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948. Evidence found in 1950 proved him guilty in 1950.
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The Korean War was a war between south Korea and north Korea. The war started as a product of the cold war to stop the spread of communism.
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The Rosenberg's were American civilians convicted for giving Soviets information on the atomic bomb.
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The Army-McCarthy hearing was a series of hearing to investigate the accusations between the U.S. army and U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy
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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a battle between french nationalist and Viet Minh communists that ended on May 7, 1954
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The Warsaw Pact was considered the treaty of friendship between Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Soviet Union.
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The Hungarian Revolution was a nation wide revolt against the communist government spanning from October 23 to November 10 1956
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The U2 incident was a U.S. spy plane that was taking picture of what the Soviets were doing. It was shot down over The Soviet Union.
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The Bat of Pigs If Infashion was a botched invasion of Cuba to assinate Fidel Castro. The invasion of the Bay of Pigs consisted of 1400 Cuban exiles.
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The Berlin wall was constructed to separate west and east Berlin. The Berlin wall was torren down in 1989.
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The Cuban Missile-Crisis was a 13 day confrontation between the U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Turkey and The Soviet Union deployment of nuclear weapons in Cuba.
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Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of Vietnam who ruled with dictatorial power. The assassination of Diem marked the culmination of a successful CIA backed coup.
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On November 22nd, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the 35th president John F. Kennedy.
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Congress passed The Tonkin gulf resolution giving president Johnson authority to do what ever he could to maintain the security in southeast Asia.
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Operation Rolling Thunder was the code name of a bombing campaign during the Vietnam war that ended up failing.
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The tet offensive was a simultaneous surprise attack by the Vietcong that was considered a turning point in the war
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a religious leader that was shot in Lorraine motel in Memphis then brought to St joseph hospital and pronounced dead at 7:05pm.
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RFK was shot and wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in L.A.
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The Riots of Democratic Convention started as a peaceful anti-war protest trying to disrupt the conference.
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The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw pact countries Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary.
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When Richard Nixon was elected he promised the american people that he would pull american troops out of Vietnam.
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The Kent State Massacre was an act from the Ohio national guard responding to the anti-war protest, resulting in 9 non fatal injuries and 4 deaths.
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Nixon visited china with a diplomatic mission that marked the culmination of Nixon's administration; Nixon visited china to fix the relationship between the U.S. and China.
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The Paris Peace accords were determined to end the war in Vietnam, The treaty was signed on Jan. 1, 1973 and restored peace to Vietnam.
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The Fall of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon by the peoples army of Vietnam freeing South Vietnam.
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The Geneva Convention were a series of conventions of international peace treaties that took place in Geneva from 1864 to 1949 that was to help sick or wounded soldiers on the battle field. the treaty finally was approved in 1977.
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Ronald Reagon took a different view on the Soviets; Reagon didn't want to just end the cold war he wanted to win the cold war which started an arms race between the U.S. and the Soviets to see who would have the biggest army.
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The SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) was a weapon that could shoot down nuclear missiles in space.
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The U.S. president Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for the for time in Geneva Switzerland to talk about the international relations and the arms race.
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"Tear down this wall" speech was a speech given by U.S. president Ronald Reagan telling the Soviet leader Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall.
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The leader of east Berlin announced that anyone can cross the border at midnight.
