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Russian Revolution
Revolutions in Russia from March 8, 1917 to November 7, 1917, that dismantled the Tsarists autocracy and lead to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb project
Project authorized by Joseph Stalin to develop working atomic bombs for the Soviet union during -
Iron Curtain
A boundary that separated Europe into two separate areas at the end of the war. -
Potsdam Conference
Conference held at Cecilienhof, between July 17 to August 2, 1945. It split up post-war Germany into four corners for four different nations to help rebuild. United States, United Kingdom, France and the Soviet controlled each of these four corners. -
Atomic Drop
At the order of President Truman, two nuclear weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki around the final stages of the war. -
The Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, established by President Harry Truman. The doctrine states that any democratic nation under the treat from a authoritarian force will receive political, military, and economic support. -
Molotov Plan
Plan started in 1947 by the Soviet Union that was meant to provide aid and rebuild the countries of Eastern Europe that were aligned to to the Union both politically and economically. -
The 10
In 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry denounced tactics employed by HUAC (House Un-american activities Committee) -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative, started in 1948, to assist Western Europe nations by giving money to repair the nations. -
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Berlin Airlift
In 1948, US, Britain, and Soviet forces divided and occupied Germany. While US and Britain repair there share, the Soviet starved theirs by building a wall, separating the nation into two. To save Eastern Germany, the US air dropped supplies into Eastern Germany. -
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Berlin Blockade
First major international crisis in WWII. Communist blocked western allies access to eastern Berlin -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance between North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss, a American government official, was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and charged in 1950 -
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Korean War
When, North Korea invaded South Korea, the United Nation, with america as the head, came to aid South Korea -
Rosenburg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg began in New York. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Mccarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. -
Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, in order to settle resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, -
U2
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically divided Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Assassniation of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion of Czechoslovakia, known as Operation Danube, was a invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations,the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. -
Riot of Democratic Convention
In 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. -
Nixon Election
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th presidential election, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings where unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in were shot by members of the Ohio National Guard. -
Nixon Visits China
President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in normalizing relations between the United States and China -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. -
Reagan Elected
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th presidential election. This election marked the beginning of what is called the "Reagan Revolution" or Reagan Era. -
SDI
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars. The intent of this program was to develop a anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, -
Geneva Summit
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. -
Tear down this wall
speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier -
Fall of Berlin Wall
A historical event where the Berlin wall that separated West and East Germany, was torn down on the agreement of the US and SU -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Temporary halt on the fighting in Vietnam between United States troops and Vietcong.
