The Cold War

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution abolished the monarchy and established the Soviet Union
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    The United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to decide what to with Germany.
  • Atomic bomb

    Atomic bomb

    The US dropped 2 Atomic bombs on Japan which ended WWII.
  • Long Telegram

    Long Telegram

    Stated that the Soviet Union was not going to be able to get along with the US and capitalism, and that the US should try to contain communism
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain

    Its a imaginary line that separated Europe. On one side was the U.S.R (Communist) and on the other side was the west (not Communist)
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    A foreign policy that said the U.S would support any country threatened by Communism.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10 was a group of movie produced and writers who were accused of being Communions and they refused to answer questions in court and went to jail
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan was were the U.S gave money to rebuild Europe
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    When the Soviet Union block all land access to Berlin.
  • NATO

    NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Origination a group of countries that came together to protect each other.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    The Soviet Union blockaded Berlin so that the west could not get supplies in on the ground. The US flew in supplies everyday so that the Germans in west Berlin could have food and other supplies.
  • First Soviet bomb test

    First Soviet bomb test

    The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb. This surprised the US because they didn't think the Soviets had the technology yet. This made the US very nervous
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    The US sent supplies and troops to Korea to help stop the spread of communism and the Soviet backed South Korea.
  • Rosenburg trail

    Rosenburg trail

    The Rosenburgs were a husband and wife who were convicted of spying on the US. They were sentence and put to death.
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings

    Televised hearing that showed the public how crazy McCarthy was
  • Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    Battle of Dien Bien Phu

    A battle between the french and the Viet Minh(Vietnamese Communist)
  • Geneva Conference

    Geneva Conference

    At the Geneva Conference Vietnam was divide at the 17 parallel. Non-communist to the North, communist to the South.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    The Soviet Union agreed that Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania would protect each other if any other country attacks them.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution was a speech that a Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said and it was about the new freedom of debate and criticism.
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident

    U2 was a plane that was shot down by the Soviet Union because they weren't suppose to be flying and it was a spy plane
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion was a trained group of Cuban refugees that beginning with a military invasion of northern Cuba.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    The United States and Cuba were going to have war over a nuclear bomb and we almost went to war with Cuba it lasted 13 days
  • Assassination of Diem

    Assassination of Diem

    He was a president of South Vietnam and was murder which created kayos and it was a turning point in the war
  • Assassination of AFK

    Assassination of AFK

    The United States president was assassinated in Dallas Texas he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Passed by congress they gave President Jonson the power to do what ever he needed to do to secure South Asia
  • Tet Offensive

    Tet Offensive

    South Vietnam had surprise attacked during the Tet holiday which is a Vietnam new year
  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK

    Martin Luther was shot in Memphis Tennessee in front of his hotel and he was the biggest leader at that time
  • Assassination of RFK

    Assassination of RFK

    He was a brother of Jon F Kennedy and he was also assassinated and he was a New York serenaded at the time of his death
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Soviet Union and Warsaw pact has a invasion in Czechoslovakia to stop protesters
  • Riots of Democratic convention

    Riots of Democratic convention

    In Chicago anti protesters Riots were stared by protesters vietam troops and city infinities promised to maintain in order and so riots police were ready
  • Election of Nixon

    Election of Nixon

    Republican Nixon was elected on the promise of provided better leader shit on the Vietnam war
  • Kent State

    Kent State

    The Ohio national guard shot and killed an unarmed Kent State student who was protesting the combat of Cambodia
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China

    President Nixon Visits china to help store relations of china this was important because it was the beginning of better realizations between the countries
  • Ceasefire in Vietnam

    Ceasefire in Vietnam

    president Nixon ordered the stop of bombing of North Vietnam this marked the beinging of the United States with draw from the Vietnam war
  • Fall of Saigon

    Fall of Saigon

    The Fall of Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam then the grab by communists fores the government to surrender
  • Reagan elected

    Reagan elected

    Republican Ronald Reagan deafted Jimmy to become morehe promise to cut big government and lower taxes
  • SDI announced

    SDI announced

    Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense system dysined to protect from a nuilcu attact
  • Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    Geneva Conference with Gorbachev

    This was a conference with president Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev singed the treaty
  • Tear down this wall' speech

    Tear down this wall' speech

    Ronald Reagan speech delivered at the Berlin wall asking the Soviet Union leader to tear down the Berlin wall
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin. This wall was build so they can keep the countries people in
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Fall of Berlin Wall

    It marked the end of the iron curtain and it opened up a path way in the east of Germany and Berlin
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    Americas attempted to show us the powerful air force during the Vietnam war it was though that the action was a complete failure
  • Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss, an American government official was accused of being a spy of the Soviet Union he was eventually evicted of lying to the court