-
Russian Revolution
Russia lost faith in the czar and government corruption was rampant -
Potsdam Conference
the last meeting held by the Big Three during WWII -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima -
Iron Curtain
barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the west -
Truman Doctrine
States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from soviet union -
Molotov Plan
a system 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. -
Hollywood 10
10 individuals that were sentenced to jail because of they refused to answer the questions of HUAC practicing their second amendment rights -
Marshall Plan
economic recovery program meeting its objective of restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole. -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. planes would drop supplies and candy for the kids who were victim to the Berlin blockade -
Berlin Airlift
British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Berlin Blockade
24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Soviet bomb test
Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb shocking the U.S. -
Alger Hiss case
former State Department official Alger Hiss was convicted for being a soviet spy during WWII -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. -
Rosenberg trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were committed for treason against the US selling nuclear weapon secrets to the Soviet union during the war -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The first engagement in the Indochinese war between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Televised hearings to the American republic exposing McCarthy for his recklessness -
Geneva Conference
Representatives from the world’s powers meet in Geneva to disscus several problems in Asia, including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina, -
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union and seven European satellites sign a treaty for mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the Hungarian Republic government and the policies imposed by the Soviet Union -
U2 Incident
A United States spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Exiles launched an invasion at the bay of pigs in the south coast of Cuba -
Berlin Wall
The wall acted as a concrete barrier that physically and ideologically (a way that relates to ideas), divided Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day political and military standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile to be taken out of Turkey and Italy. -
Assassination of Diem
Was captured and killed with his brother in South Vietnam by a group of soldiers, causing a celebration but also chaos in the country further involving the US forces. -
Assassination of JFK
john Fitzgerald Kennedy, president of the United States, was assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible in a parade. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
President Lyndon B. Johnson undertakes the sustained bombing of North Vietnam that he and his advisers have been contemplating for a year. -
Tet Offensive
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Assassination of MLK
shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia -
Riots of Democratic convention
Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Election of Nixon
February 1968, he had sufficiently recovered his political standing in the Republican Party to announce his candidacy for president -
Kent State
Student anti war protests were going on in which resulted in the shooting of unarmed students -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam -
Reagan elected
former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989 -
SDI announced
Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet to propose agreements -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to tear down the Berlin wall -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Reagan's speech had inspired parties within communist nations to rise up leading the the tearing down of the Berlin wall
