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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of Russia. It's significance is that it had many reasons for World War 2.
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The U.S. detonated two nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities. Caused Japan to surrender.
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How the Soviet Union saw the world. Took information and presented it into two prior reports and constructed a road map to the cold war.
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A national barrier separating the former Soviet bloc. To the decline of communism.
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Last of the World War meetings held by the "big three". Significant because the President had told the Soviet that they had detonated the first atomic bomb.
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A system created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to rebuild countries in eastern Europe.
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10 member of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the house un-American activities committee
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American foreign policy, the purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion. Hoped to stop the spread of communism. Requested aid for the countries Greece and Turkey.
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Spent 12 billion dollars on a program of massive economic assistance to help rebuild Western European countries after the end of WWII.
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United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from allied airbases in western Germany.
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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the Untied States. A gamble to gain exclusive control over west Berlin.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance the consists of 29 member states. To provide collective security against Soviet Union.
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Internally code named First Lightning.
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Led by communist party of China, resulted in proclamation of the people's republic of China
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A State Department official who was convicted of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers and spying for the Soviet Union.
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The first American civilians to be executed for espionage and the first to suffer that penalty.
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War between North and South Korea. Conflict between the Democratic people's republic (North) and the Republic of Korea (South)
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A series of hearings held by the United States Senates subcommittee to investigate.
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A treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization.
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A nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory.
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a failed attempt by US-sponsored Cuban exiles to reverse Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, beginning with a military invasion of northern Cuba.
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A confrontation that made the U.S and Soviet close to a war when the Soviet nuclear armed missiles in Cuba. this is important because it could have caused a war with the U.S.
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JFK was shot while riding with his wife and was shot by a former U.S marine who was firing in ambush from a building by where Kennedy was. this is important because it was yet another great president that had been assassinated
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The Berlin wall was a barrier divided Berlin and was built by the German republic
