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The Iron Curtain of 1945
This was an imaginary boundary that the Soviet Union made splitting Europe into two. So that they could block satellite states from non-Soviet areas and from the west. -
Hollywood 10 Hearings of 1947
In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. -
The Motolov Plan of 1947
This was a program that would provide aid to help and rebuild Eastern Europe that were economically and politically aligned with the Soviet Union. -
The Marshall Pact
This was European Recovery Program in which America aided Western Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift of 1948
In 1948 at the end of WWll, Germany was split in to 4 air zones occupied by the US, Britain, France and the Soviets. -
The Berlin Blockade of 1948
This was one of the first international crisis. This was when Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the railways from accessing the sectors of Berlin. -
Alger Hiss Case
This was a trial in which a man named Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist spy against the U.S. He was proven guilty. -
Soviet atomic bomb test of 1949
At a secret sight the USSR successfully launched and tested their first atomic bomb. -
The Truman Doctrine of 1949
This is a Foreign Policy made to counter the Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. -
NATO
This was the breaking point in communism which forced the U.S and 11 other countries to allie together to end communism. -
Soviet Nuclear Test of 1949
This was an event in which the soviet began testing a series of nuclear weapons along side china. -
Chinese Nuclear Weapon Test of 1949
In 1949 the Chinese began testing a series of nuclear weapons along side The Soviet Union. -
The Korean War
We sent troops to help South Korea which resulted in a brutal 3 year war that concluded in a settlement of the 17th parallel. -
Rosenburg Case of 1950
A man and his wife named Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were arrested for the conspiracy of being a spy. Both were found guilty and later executed under the death penalty. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a planned out event in which the first Indochina War began . In late 1953, French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley. One of the commanders for the Viet MInh, Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed artillery in caves of the mountains near the French Camps so they could see all their activity. -
Geneva Conference
It was a conference to help resolve several problems in Asia. In included the war between the French and the Vietnamese in Indochina. Representatives form all over the world gathered to create the Geneva Conference. -
The Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg where accused of being Soviet Spies and were prosecuted and found guilty. They received the death penalty. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954
A series of Us investigation done by the Senate looking into Joseph .R. McCarthy was using improper influence to win preferential treatment. -
The Warsaw Pact of 1955
A mutual defense organization that puts the Soviets in charge of the armed forces. -
The Invasion of Hungary
A national uprising occurred killing thousands, this was the Hungarian invasion. -
Bay of Pigs
The city where the US attempted to launch there missiles. -
U-2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, 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. -
Cuban Missile Crisis ( THE THIRTEEN DAYS)
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
The Berlin Wall of 1961
This was a wall created out of barbwire to keep fascist and other threatening forces out of eastern and western Germany. -
Assassination of Diem
After the take over of the southern Vietnamese government Diem and his brothers were captured by soldiers and killed. -
Assassination of JFK
President Kennedy was the president of the United States of America. He was Assassinated in Dallas Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 2nd the US destroyer Maddox was fired on upon by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Then two days later it was reported that it happened again which was illegal because they were both in international waters off of the Gulf of Tonkin when hit. We were also at war with them. Later they found out that the second attack never occurred. -
Operation of Rolling Thunder
This was an attack against North Vietnam on the fight against communism. It last was approved in February but began March 1965 and ended October 1968. This war operation was made in hopes that the wage war would pan out. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the TET Offensive. Which was a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in S.V. -
The Assassination of MLK
MLk was fighting for the rights for African Americans when he was assassinated outside of his hotel room by James Earl Ray. -
The assassination of RFK
JFK's brother was assassinated shortly after him while he was on the campaign trail by Sirhan. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In 1968 hundred of people came to peacefully protest, but these people were no match for the soviet army and their hundreds of tanks that entered the city. -
The Election of Richard Nixon
The republican beat defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey. The race was very very close Nixon only won by 500,000 votes. -
Riots at democratic Nation Convention in Chicago
In Chicago thousands of protesters against the war battled police to the end. -
Kent State Shooting
When Nixon came out saying that we needed more soldiers, hippies against non-violence rang out in protest the ended in a shooting at Kent University. -
Nixon visits China
This was the first dramatic step of normalization to end communism in the Republic of China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Even though we both agreed to stop, the US still remained to be armed and heavily aided until the last were out. -
Fall of Saigon
On April 30th, the North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon with little resistance, and it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Minh, who had died several years before. Later in the day President Minh announced: "I declare the Saigon government [of South Vietnam] is completely dissolved at all levels." -
The announcement of SDI ( Star Wars)
This was a Strategic Defense Initiative ( STAR WARS) in which Ronald Reagan proposed that we would send satellites missiles to space to shoot down enemies with lasers. ( from space) -
The Re-election of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was re-elected for his 2nd term of presidency in 1984. He won by a landslide in the electoral vote and the popular vote. -
"Tear Down The Wall" Speech
This speech was given by president Ronald Reagan, which was broadcasted all of Germany. He begged the question of why was the Berlin wall even made in the first place. After 25 years of the wall standing Germany sent out a news letter stating that the wall would be dismantled. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall was torn down as the Leader of Germany announced that the citizens could cross over.
