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Russian Revolution
A revolution in Petrograd, the capital of Russia, Bolsheviks overthrew the government and created the Soviet Union. -
Iron Curtain
A phrase for the division of Europe, split Europe into two different areas. It blocked The soviet union and their satellite states from open contact with the west. -
Potsdam Confrence
President Harry S. Truman's first conference between Great Britain and the Soviet Union. All Three made agreements on the future of Germany, Austria, and Poland. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The atomic bombings Put a close on the war with japan, killing around 90,000 - 150,000 total, 4 months after the initial impact. This lead to america being shown as a dominant world power. -
Hollywood Ten
A group of ten out of 43 witnesses that refused to cooperate for the House Un-American Activities. They felt the hearings were unconstitutional, which got them arrested and banned from working for major Hollywood studios. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was created to aid Western Europe, United States gave $13 billion for economic aid to rebuild European economies. The goal was to rebuild destroyed regions and keep Communism away. -
Truman Doctrine
A policy to counter soviet invasion of European states, mainly supporting Greece and Turkey. He sent $400 million in economic aid, making Greece and Turkey stable keeping them out of the soviet union. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Soviet Union created a blockade around western sectors of Berlin to keep out western allies. This Made the Western allies create the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people living in the western sectors of Berlin. It lasted for 327 days before the Soviets lifted the blockade. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
NATO is a system of "collective defense", states agree to defend others if their attacked by an outside party. The alliance has 29 countries involved across North America and Europe. -
Soviet bomb test
This was the time at which the Soviet Union created their first successful atomic bomb. The first bomb named "RDS-1" was designed similarly to the U.S. atomic bomb using a "hexogen" implosion design. from then on they tested more powerful bombs with different constructions. -
Korean War
A war between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was supported by china and the Soviet Union, South Korea was supported by the United States. The war started on the June 25, 1950 when North Korea invaded the south. The war ended on July 27, 1953 when an armistice was signed between North and South Korea. -
Khrushchev Takes over
After Joseph Stalin died, their became a power struggle between Georgy Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev. Malenkov temporarily took over until February 8, 1955, when he was taken out of office by Khrushchev. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy
A doctrine from Eisenhower that stated, a state retaliates in a greater force if attacked. This was created to provoke outside states from initially attacking. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Was a series of hearings by the United States Senate and Subcommittee on Investigations. It was to investigate conflict between the United States Army and Joseph McCarthy. They accused Roy Cohn to helping G. David Schine get preferential treatment from the Army. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and Soviet Union satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe. It was created in reaction to NATO, as well as maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
The Vietnam War
A war fought between North Vietnam, supported by the communist party, and south Vietnam, supported by the United States. . The North was fighting to reunite the rest of Vietnam, were the south was trying to stay away from communism. the war lasted 20 years and was considered a humiliating defeat for the U.S. due to withdrawing from the war on April 30, 1975. -
Hungarian Revolution
A Revolt against the communist government of Hungarian People's Republic. It started as a student demonstration that attracted thousands, it spread across Hungary which caused the government to collapse. -
U-2 Incident
Incident where the USSR shot down one of America's U-2 spy plane in soviet air space. They also captured Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of the plane. This raised tension between the soviets and the U.S. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military invasion of Cuba by the Central Intelligence Agency. Their plan was to overthrow the communist party in power, removing Fidel Castro. The force was defeated in three days within invasion. -
Berlin Wall
A Wall that divided West Berlin from all of East Germany and East Berlin. The wall prevented all immigration to the west due to it being a built up large concrete wall with guard towers built around it, with an area known as the "death strip" that had anti-vehicle trenches. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest incident to changing the Cold War into a Nuclear War. It was based on the confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union due to the deployment of missiles in Turkey and Italy from the U.S, and the deployment of missiles in Cuba from The Soviet Union. They made an agreement between each other to dismantle their weapons in turkey and Cuba to keep each other away from war. -
Detente under Nixon
was a period of time creating a better relationships between U.S and the Soviet Union both countries wanted to increase the amount trading and reduce the amount of danger of Nuclear Warfare. By June of 1974 it came to an end when both parties stopped creating agreements and started blocking them. -
The Reagan Doctrine
A doctrine that served as the foundation to support Freedom Fighters around the world. This helped with forcing soviets out of Afghanistan solving the conflict in Angola. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A speech that called the leader of the soviet union to remove the barrier dividing west and east Berlin. The speech had little coverage about it at the time and was only truly noticed in 1989 once the wall was destroyed. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Was the day that people of east and west Germany were reunited. by 1989 the relations between the east and west had improved allowing the wall to be destroyed.
