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The cold war

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    The Russian Revolution was the most explosive political event. violent revolutions marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of russian imperial rule. It led to the communist party of the Soviet Union.
  • Soviet bomb test

    Soviet bomb test
    During the world war 2 the Soviet had a bomb test that was a classified project.
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain
    The Iron Curtain was the non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference
    The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and this helped set the stage for the Cold War that begins shortly after World War II came to an end. The meeting at the Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations.
  • Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
    The final stage of the world war 2 the US plan to bomb two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    Turman said that the US foreign would be to support free people who are resisting attempts subjugation by armed minorities or be outside pressure.
  • Molotov Plan

    Molotov Plan
    The Molotov plan was created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    On 1948 was the day that Berlin was being isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. The U.S and Britain were flying to bring Berlin food and water
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan
    Marshall Plan was the American initiative and to help the European.
    The U.S gave over 12 billion dollars to help rebuild Western European economies
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    During the cold war Berlin Blockade was one of the 1st major international crises in World War II . Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • NATO

    NATO
    NATO( North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a allinces that has 29 staes from north amercia and eroupe
  • Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss case
    Alger Hiss was a U.S State Department official and as a U.N but he was being accused of a spy for the soviet union and went to jail for 4 years
  • Rosenburg trial

    Rosenburg trial
    Ethel and Julius Rosenburg trial were the first ever civilians to ever be executed because they were being accused of giving a spy top secret about the atomic bomb information.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    Hollywood 10 is a motion-picture producer, directors, and screenwriters with 16mm films they would all have speaches talking about blacklisting
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The war was between North Korean and South Korean.
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings
    The Army-McCarthy hearings are when they were a lot of hearing help by the U.S senator. The U.S had an investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu
    The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was when the French and the Vietnamese Communist and nationalist fighting for small mountains]
  • Geneva Conference

    Geneva Conference
    Geneva was a meeting with serval nations to settle major issues from the Korean war and the first Indochina. The French and the German would not come to terms at all
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    Warsaw Pact is the treaty of friendship Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. The Sovite Unioun and the North Atlantic
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution
    It was a nationwide revaluation against the Hungarian People's Republic
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident
    A U.S U2 spy plane was shot down by a Soviet Air Defence Forces
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion
    The bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by group Brigade 2506
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    From 1961 to 1989 there was a wall to keep the western fascists from going to East Germany .
  • Assassination of RFK

    Assassination of RFK
    Senator Robert Kennedy was JFK brother. On June 5, 1968, he was shot after winning the California presidential primary.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    the Cuban missile crisis was when the leader of U.S and the leader of the Soviet Union was becoming to a point they might go to war because the soviet union was going to use a nuclear weapon on Cuba
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK
    JFK was the 35th present was assassination on 10-22-1963 when he was at Texas
  • Assassination of Diem

    Assassination of Diem
    he control the south and was a present of Vietnam
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution
    The Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
    to make the present able to take any measure he believes were important and international peace and security in southeast Asia.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder
    Operation Rolling Thunder is named for the American bombing campaign during the Vietnam war. the Idea of this bombing was to increase the other people weapons and crew.
  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK
    The assassination of MLK was one April 4, 1968. MLK was a hero. He wanted to make a difference and wanted people to be them and not one thing just because of the color of there skin he wanted to be able to have the blacks to be able to vote and to be equal
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia
    Invasion of Czechoslovakia was when 5 countries invaded Czechoslovakia and kill, destroyed them
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive was an important event in the Vietnam war because they were the largest military campaigns and would surprise attack the us
  • Riots of Democratic convention

    Riots of Democratic convention
    There was a whole year of violence, riots, and argument, democrat more than over 50 cites were doing the same thing.
  • Riots of Democratic convention

    Riots of Democratic convention
    this year was the year of violence and political turbulence, civil unrest, and riots. More than a hundred
  • Election of Nixon

    Election of Nixon
    The U.S had a presidential election on 10-5-1968. Nixon was nominated to be the president
  • Kent State

    Kent State
    Kent State is a university in Ohia. On May 4 1970 the university had a protest bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. The stduent were unarmed just protesting but then the guardmens came and shot 4 stduent and tear gas them.
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China
    In 1972 Nixon went to go visit the People's Republic of China to settle and have everyone see that they are fine and no in a war still.
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China
    Richard Nixon, president of the U.S.A order a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon
    The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon. The army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Till this day on The Fallen of Saigon mean the end of the Vietnam war.
  • Reagan elected

    Reagan elected
    In 1980 Reagan was elected for U.S president. Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter.
  • SDI announced

    SDI announced
    Regan announced an SDI. SDI stands for the Strategic Defense Initiative. He was talking on the radio on how to keep this world safe from nuclear weapons.
  • Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
    In 1985 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev had a Cold War meeting. they were discussing how to not use nuclear weapons anymore or lower the number of them.
  • ‘Tear down this wall’ speech

    ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
    In 1987 the U.S President made a speech calling the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Fall of Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall was a barrier from West Berlin and East Berlin so you couldn't get through. In 1989 the wall got beaten down