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Russian revolution
During world war one the Russian people were going through a famine and had almost no supplies for war at all. The corrupt Tsar was overthrown and a democratic party took over, this did not last however and a man named Lenin took over the country and created a form of government called communism. -
Potsdam Conference
After WWII the world super powers met and talked about setting up democracy in the country's that needed help, Stalin however wanted to make them communist and all under Russian rule. -
Atomic Bomb Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave the U.S. a new leveraging stick to use against those who would oppose us, and was used to threaten the Soviet Union on many occasions. -
iron Curtain
Churchill's speech of how an iron curtain would descend across the continent separating those of communist power from the free world. -
Truman Doctrine
A proclamation by the president saying that the U.S. will fight for democracy and for those fighting for democracy, and that we will not abandon them to communism. -
Hollywood Ten
The federal government thought that Hollywood had become corrupt and was putting out communist movies and so actors were brought to trial, and ten of the actors were blacklisted because they refused to answer the questions. -
Berlin Blockade & Airlift
Stalin wanted to force Germany into submission to communism, but he couldn't do that while west Germany was getting supplies which made them not want to be communist, so Stalin cut off supplies to Berlin, in retaliation the U.S. began sending in planes loaded with supplies Forcing Stalin to shoot them down if he wanted to stop them. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed an economic recovery act called the Marshall plan which was to aid Europe and help them fight against communism, a total of $13 billion was given. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The soviet union finally tested their first successful atomic bomb, now the odds were even, the soviet union had just as much threatening power as the U.S. -
NATO
NATO was the combination of forces including America, United Kingdom, France, Norway, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Iceland, Netherlands, Portugal, and Denmark. -
Korean War
In order to stop the spread of communism, the U.S. sent troops to support the south Koreans against the north Koreans, the U.S. was able to push the north Koreans back past the 38 parallel but china pushed the U.S. back until there was a standstill at the parallel. -
Eisenhower's Retaliation Policy
Eisenhower promised to retaliate in full to any attack on Europe and any other policy, as well as any attack on the U.S. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Senator McCarthy claims that he knew who was communist in the government and begins to gain support, but loses most of his support when he claims that the army is communist. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was an alliance between the soviet union and the other communist party's in Europe and Asia. -
The Vietnam War
In order to stop communist spread the U.S. sent troops and army supplies to help fight against the north Vietnam which ha support from china and Russia, the war would eventually be lost, but not on the battle field but at home, and once the support for the war was lost the troops were pulled out of Vietnam. -
Hungarian Revolution
The people of Hungary revolted against communist rule and won, or so it seemed. The red army invaded and killed all the revolutionarys and reinstated communist rule. -
Khrushchev Takes Over
After the death of Stalin, the top officials of the communist party took over, but over time one became the next leader, Nikita Khrushchev. -
U2 Incident
The United States and the soviet union begin to mend, and the slowing of nuclear bomb production begins, and while peace talks between the U.S. and the soviet union are being held the U.S. send one last spy plane, but it gets shot down and captured as well as the pilot. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
When Fidel Castro took over the U.S. fearing soviet union and Cuban alliance tried to overthrow Fidel Castro by arming a group of exiles from Cuba to fight, but they failed to overthrow the dictator. -
Berlin Wall
In order to keep the all the engineers and scientists of eastern Germany from fleeing to western Germany, Nikita erected a wall to separate the city. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet ships bound for Cuba filled with missiles and soldiers and military hardware, tensions grew as the soviet union set up missile silos in Cuba, but Nikita realized what a nuclear war would mean so he pulled out of Cuba and removed the missile silos. -
Detente Under Nixon
A time in the cold war when the relations between the U.S. and Russia began to improve and steps were being taken towards peace. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan doctrine was a statement/new way to deal with communists where the U.S. would support any people resisting the soviet union and its allies. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
Reagan made a speech at the Berlin wall a little after speaking about peace with the soviet union, and in the speech Reagan asks Gorbachev, to "tear down this wall". -
The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
At the end of the cold war and peace was starting to form between america and Russia, the Berlin wall came down and Germany was united, and not long after the soviet union was disbanded.
