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Russian Revolution
A couple of unrests in Russia in 1917 which destroyed the Tsarist totalitarianism and prompted the ascent of the Soviet Union. Amid the insurgency, the Bolsheviks, who were driven by liberal progressive Vladimir Lenin seized control and pulverized the convention of csarist run the show. The Bolsheviks would later turn into the Socialist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The last meeting of WW2 between the "Big Three" which consisted of American President Harry S. Truman,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The talks mainly centered on postwar Europe. Although the leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Amid the last phase of World War ll, the United States dropped atomic weapons on the Japanese urban areas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The two bombs by and large executed no less than 130,000 Japanese individuals. This instrument of death was utilized to indicate Japan our power and assurance to compel their surrender. After the second nuclear bomb dropped Japan's Emperor HIrohito reported his nation's unqualified surrender. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the limit isolating Europe into two separate zones from the end of of WWII in 1945 until the point when the finish of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Blind was set by the Soviet Union to piece itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non controlled zones. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American outside strategy made to counter Soviet geopolitical development amid the Cold War. It was presented by President Harry S. Truman to Congress in would like to contain Soviet impacts over Europe. The Truman Doctrine suggested American help for different countries debilitated by Soviet socialism. It turned into the establishment of American outside strategy which later prompted the development of NATO. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan directed over $13 billion to fund the monetary recuperation of Europe in the vicinity of 1948 and 1951. The plan effectively started financial recuperation, meeting its goal of reestablishing the certainty of the European individuals in the monetary fate of their own nations. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an endeavor in 1948 by the Soviet Union to restrict the capacity of France, Great Britain and the United States to go to their parts of Berlin, which lay inside Russian-possessed East Germany. -
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948, the Russians shut all interstates, railways and waterways from western-possessed Germany into western-involved Berlin. Due to this the U.S. and its allies chose to supply their segments of city from the air. This act was known as the "Berlin Airlift," went on for over a year and conveyed more than 2.3 million tons of supplies into West Berlin -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made in 1949 by The U.S., Canada, and a few Western European countries to secure security against the Soviet Union. Its main role was to bind together and fortify the Western Allies' military reaction to a conceivable attack of western Europe by the Soviet Union. -
Soviet bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR effectively explodes its first nuclear bomb, code name "First Lightning". The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had provoked Joseph Stalin to arrange the advancement of atomic weapons inside five years. -
Hollywood 10
10 individuals from the Hollywood film industry openly condemned the strategies utilized by the House Un-American Exercises Board of trustees, an investigative advisory group of the U.S. Place Of Delegates, amid its test of affirmed comrade impact in the American film business. These screenwriters and executives, who wound up plainly known as the Hollywood Ten, got imprison sentences and were restricted from working for the significant Hollywood studios. -
Korean War
This war started when 75,000 officers from the North Korean individuals' Armed force poured over the 38th parallel. This intrusion was the primary military activity of the Cold War. By July, American powers came to help in the interest of South Korea. Thus following 3 years of battle that ended in a bloody stalemate. -
Khruschev Takes over
Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. At home, he initiated a process of “de-Stalinization” that made Soviet society less repressive. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Representative Joseph McCarthy starts hearings researching the United States Armed force, which he accuses of being "delicate"on socialism. Representative McCarthy charged that there were more than 200 "known communists" in the Division of State. Along these lines started his confounding ascent to distinction as the most popular and dreaded socialist seeker in the United States. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration’s support of “freedom fighters” around the globe. “Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few; it is the universal right of all God’s children.” -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a settlement building up the Warsaw Agreement, a shared protection association that put the Soviets in summon of military of the part states. It cam to be viewed as a significant potential battle ready danger, as an indication of Comrade predominance, and an unmistakable adversary to American private enterprise. -
The Vietnam War
The war pitted the communist government (North Vietnam) against South Vietnam and its ally the United States. More than 3,000 people were killed in the Vietnam war, more than half being Vietnamese citizens. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. Vicious street fighting broke out, but the Soviets' great power ensured victory. -
U2 incident
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drives his guerilla army into Havana and overthrows General Fulgencio Batista, the nation's American-backed president. The CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans. The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro's troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. -
Berlin Wall
The official purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep Western "fascists" from entering East Germany. It was a tangible symbol of the suppression of human rights by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Detente Under Nixon
A period of improved relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that began in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
This speech by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable lines spoken during his presidency. The wall stood as a stark symbol of the decades-old Cold War between the United States and Soviet Russia in which the two politically opposed superpowers continually wrestled for dominance, stopping just short of actual warfare. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold war began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945.
