The Cold War

  • Russian Revolution

    Russian Revolution
    The Potsdam Conference March 8, 1917 was attended by the leaders of three nations was including the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
  • PotsDam Conference

    PotsDam Conference
    The conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans of Germany also Poland after World War II ended. Example of: conference which also ended in August 2, 1945.
  • Atomic Bomb

    Atomic Bomb
    The Atomic Bomb was also know as The Atom Bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. This was one of the biggest Nuclear weapon ever dropped on a country. On July 16, 1945 was the first time.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade
    The Berlin Blockade was on June 24, 1945 in
  • Iron Curtain

    Iron Curtain
    The term Iron Curtain had been history and use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came the only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S on March 5, 1946.
  • Long Telegram

    Long Telegram
    The “Long Telegram” from Moscow in February 1946 and through a announced in Foreign Affairs in 1947 was lay out of a third path between extremes of war. Stalin, he said, is not Hitler.
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine
    The Truman Doctrine was a American foreign policy which purpose was to counter the Soviet gotten bigger during the Cold War. It was told to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 29, 1947, It provide to aid to any country threatened by Communism
  • Molotov Plan

    Molotov Plan
    The Molotov plan was a system created by the soviet union in 1947, It was created to rebuild countries in eastern European to help out the economy and was to give people around an opportunity.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly these prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios.
  • The Marshall Plan

    The Marshall Plan
    The Marshall Plan was the official recovery program for European recovery program was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion. Which help out western European countries after world war 2.
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift
    The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  • NATO

    NATO
    NATO is a alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established in north Atlantic.In response to this, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed. NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe.
  • First Soviet Union bomb test

    First Soviet Union bomb test
    It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device, called RDS-1 or "First Lightning" .
  • Chinese Communist Revolution

    Chinese Communist Revolution
    On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. which broke out immediately following World War II.
  • Hollywood 10

    Hollywood 10
    The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors which were cited for of Congress for refusing to testify before a House of Un-American Activities.
  • Rosenberg trial

    Rosenberg trial
    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were accused and convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union engines, and valuable nuclear weapon desigts at that time the United States which the only country in the world with nuclear weapons
  • Korean War

    Korean War
    The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border
  • Army-McCarthy hearings

    Army-McCarthy hearings
    The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States. The Army accused Chief Committee Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact
    Warsaw Pact, formally Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, May 14, 1955–July 1, 1991 treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization
  • Alger Hiss case

    Alger Hiss case
    Alger Hiss November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996 was an American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in 1948. Which they thought their was spys around hearing and plans.
  • Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian Revolution
    Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on November 4, 1956.The problems in Hungary began in October 1956, when thousands of protesters took to the streets.
  • Bay of Pigs invasion

    Bay of Pigs invasion
    On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista. Finally, in April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike
  • U2 Incident

    U2 Incident
    On May 1, 1960, the pilot during the ff an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace one of the planes were shot down from the sky caught spying. The fallout over the incident happen during the fly.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall
    On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic RepublicWall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Cuban missile crisis, October 1962, major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close the U.S. and Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standof in October 1962.
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK
    on this day of November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during the campaign visit. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza with crowds lining all over the street when shots rang out.
  • Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    Invasion of Czechoslovakia
    On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union was led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague Soviet the leaders were concerned over these recent developments in Czechoslovakia. Recalling the 1956 uprising in Hungary
  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China