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Russian Revolution
March 8, 1917 to November 7, 1917 the revolution was set to over throw democratic, and go to communism which gave lack of rights to people and lack of property. The U.S entered by sending aid to the soviets enemies which upset them -
Potsdam conference
Jul 17, 1945 – Aug 2, 1945 The conference was about what's going to happen post war and how to deal with it, tensions grew between security, democracy, freedom, and soviet union didn't want that and opposed communism. -
The atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945 The usage of the atomic against Japan ,not only did it help them surrender but show the world they can't compete with the U.S. it also upset the soviet union because they were shocked Truman used the bomb -
Iron Curtain
military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non communist areas -
Molotov Plan
created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union the Soviet Union refused the Marshall plan and decided to create this instead -
Truman Doctrine
A foreign policy to help countries in need in aid, an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II, so that the countries wouldn't turn to communism as an alternative of starvation of death -
Berlin Blockade
24 June 1948–12 May 1949 the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. Causing starvation to it's people because they had no food or goods -
Berlin Airlift
Jun 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949 Both Germany and Berlin got divided into four zones by the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, France. The Soviet union then took equipment from east Germany. The U.S. are rebuilding west Germany and the soviets don't want that and blockade Berlin. In response the U.S would drop off foods and goods by plane drop offs. -
Alger Hiss case
an American government official who was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. Hiss was convicted of perjury instead of treason. He was sentence to 5 years in prison. This caused people to fear that their were communist spying every where. -
NATO
united defense against Soviet aggression and with several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union -
Soviet bomb test
Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test and also was an explosive year for communism -
Hollywood 10
20th-century screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or associations. Artists were rejected and stopped from work on the basis of their supposed membership in or sympathy toward the American Communist Party. -
Korean war
Korean war was between the North and South of Korea, began when the North attacked the border into South Korea. America soon intervened and went to help aid South Korea. The two sides of Korea resulted in two of governments with the Soviet Union and America supporting different sides. -
Rosenburg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were accused of giving the Soviet Union ways to achieve nuclear weapon. At this time only America had nuclear weapons. They were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings took over national television from April to June. The Televised news captured national attention because of McCarthy’s notoriety. Soon got his own word McCarthyism, means to publicly make accusations of treason and disloyalty with little to no evidence. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Mar 13, 1954 – May 7, 1954 Battle between French Union's Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries, known as Indochina War. This battle went till May 7, 1954. The result was Vietnam temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. very important to the cold war because it was a turning point in Indochina. Viet Minh claimed victory. -
Geneva Conference
Apr 26, 1954 – Jul 21, 1954 a conference that involved many nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland abd was suppose to settle issues resulting from the Korean War. The conference made a turning point in the United States involvement in Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty A defense organization that makes the Soviets in command.The Warsaw Pact was named this because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. It includes the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution started in October 1956. Thousands of Hungarian protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from the Soviet Union. On November 4, 1956, Soviet took tanks into Budapest to crush the national uprising. Street fighting broke out between the two sides, but the Soviets Union ensured victory -
U2 Incident
United States U2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union captured the American people. America then was forced to admit its military nature, when the Soviet Union came forward with the U-2 spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union taken by the airplane. -
Berlin Wall
A concrete barrier that was guarded. It physically divided Berlin. People weren't able to cross over the wall to west or east Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 16, 1962 – Oct 28, 1962 The Soviet Union constructed nuclear missiles on Cuba. Cuba only 90 miles away from the US shores, this worried America. In order to remove the Cuban missiles, America promised not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union took the missiles off of Cuba. President Kennedy then secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. -
Assassination of Diem
Diem was the president for South Vietnam. Diem wasn't that well-liked by the people because he had a different religion thanthe people. He refused to ally with Ho Chi Minh and caused conflict. On November 2, Diem and his brother were murdered by the South Vietnamese Army. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963, while being in Dallas, Texas. He was shot by former U.S Marine, Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy's death brought America into intense mourning -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Mar 2, 1965 – Nov 1, 1968
A code name that the U.S used when they were about to bomb North Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
Jan 30, 1968 – Sep 23, 1968 the Tet Offensive occurred while people were celebrating the lunar New Year it was a huge attack that North Vietnam did too South Vietnam. This attack destroyed 100 cities, killed 67,00 people, invaded bases and the America embassy. This was on of the major turning points in the Cold War, -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was killed by James Earl Ray, and went to jail till he died. King's family had believed that the government had something to do with the death. He was 39 years old when he passed. After his death many riots started around the U.S -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was a Presidential candidate in the 1968 election. After winning the California and South Dakota primary election, he was shot the day after while being at Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Later died at the Good Samaritan Hospital at the age of 42. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Aug 20, 1968 – Sep 20, 1968 Started by the Warsaw Pact including Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany and more.The invasion happened at the night and Killed 137 people and leaving many wounded. -
Riots of Democratic convention
Aug 26, 1968 – Aug 29, 1968 a Vietnam War protest that tens of thousands of people attended . Protester battled police in the streets while the Democratic Party fell apart. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon was the 46th president,t he election year was very important because It was marked the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy -
Kent State
A shooting known as the Kent State massacre Members of the Ohio National Guard shot 67 rounds over a period of 16 seconds, at some protesters protesting the Vietnam war, and some weren't. Killing four students. The protest was so important to the war because people turned there focus over to the Americans. -
Nixon visits China
The first U.S. president that visited China since it was established in 1949. Very important to the Cold War because the US was seeking a better relation with a communist country while the Cold War was happening. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war. It came in effect on January 28, 1973 with President Nixon declaring it. As a result of a post-ceasefire action about 25,000 South Vietnamese were killed in a battle on 1973. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Known as "The Blank Check" With the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, it gave President Johnson the ability to take many measures he could. -
Fall of Saigon
Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam. In 1975 after a horrible battle between North and South Vietnam, with the North taking the victory. They went to the Souths capital took over and renamed it Ho Chi Minh city for the old leader of the north. -
Reagan elected
Reagan was was the 40th President of the United States and an American politician and actor. He came from a poor family that lived in Illinois. He then graduated from Eureka College and worked as a sports announcer. -
SDI announced
Strategic Defense Initiative is a missile defense system to protect the United States from any attacks by the Soviet Union. This was a space-based anti-missile system. This program was named "star wars". -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The president of the United States and the Leader of the Soviets met for the first time in eight years They held a summit Conference and met in Geneva. At the meeting they discussed the future between themselves, exchanged personal talks and looked like they developed a close relationship. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
The speech wasgiven by President Reagan. This speech was to the people of West Berlin. He asked the Soviet leaders "Why is the wall there?". After Reagan's speech a newspaper in West Germany called the Bild-Zeitung, stated he thought the wall could be 'torn down'. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Cold War began to end, and so did the Berlin Wall.The spokesman for East Berlin's communist Party said, that there will be a change in the relationship between to the East and West. More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend, to celebrate what some said as the "The greatest street party in the history of the world".
