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Reagan elected
Reagan was an actor and a government that served as the 40th U.S. He was inspiring for people because of is attitude and his personality -
Rosenburg trial
The trial of Rosenburg took place in New York. He espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In the Invasion of Czechoslovakia it was known as "Operation Danube." It started when the Warsaw invaded Czechoslovakia at night.Romania and Albania did not want to join them. East Germany was prepared for the invasion as well, They were ordered from there leader Moscow not to invade before they actually did as a result 108 Czechoslovakian civilians were killed and around 500 wounded in the invasion. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill condemned the policy from the Soviet Union policies in Europe. From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was created by Harry S. Truman. The Truman Doctrine was for the U.S to provide political, military and economic help from those who were threatened from the external. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was an event that the Soviet Union had created to provide aid and to re-build countries in Europe but only if they were politically relates to the Soviet Union. The Molotov plan was symbolic of the Soviet Union's refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan. This aid allowed countries in Europe to stop relying on American aid, and therefore allowed Molotov Plan states to reorganize their trade to the USSR instead. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a European recovery program that Harry S. Marshall had created to help those who were threatened by the Soviets.The United States gave over 12$ billion dollars, the Marshall plan had been around since 4 years. The Marshall plan was also divided to different by the participate states more on con-pita parts. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift occurred during the second world war.Germany and Berlin were divided into four occupations zones and was administered by the U.S, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and France. Stalin was determined to force the Western Allies out of West Berlin and starve its people into submission. An event that happened was that the United States and Canada joined with 10 European Nations to form a military allies. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one the main crisis in the Cold War. The Germans and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and the most important the canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.The Berlin Blockade served to highlight the competing ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was a communist party member and was part of the HUAC house. -
NATO
NATO is the definition of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The NATO was also known by the North Atlantic Alliance. It was a inter government military allies that was based on the North Atlantic treaty. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
When the soviet Union tested there first atomic bomb the United States was some what alarmed and surprised because they did not think that the Soviet Union would build an atomic bomb so soon with a short amount of time. The atomic bomb had a yield of 22 kilotons, they also had a code for the atomic bomb which was called " modern-day Kazakhstan." -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, with assistance from the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
It was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Army-McCarthy hearings was heard by the United States Senate's -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty of friendship towards the Soviet Union and 7 other soviets. The Warsaw pact was created because of the reaction of the integration of West Germany into the NATO. It was also motivated by the Soviet Union to control over the military forces from the eastern Europe and the central part. -
The Invasion of Hungary
The Invasion of Hungary was a revolt against the government which lasted almost to a month and it made the soviet union took it as a threat because of the USSR'S. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The revolt began as a student demonstration, which attracted thousands as they marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building, calling out on the streets using a van with loudspeakers via Radio Free Europe. -
U2 incident
U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War. The United States government tried to cover up the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its military nature when the Soviet government came forward with the captured pilot and remains of the U-2 including spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union taken by the aircraft. The U-2 spy plane was shot down while in soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
John F Kennedy inherited an all or nothing defense policy. It provided two military options for dealing with the Soviet threat, do nothing or let the diplomatic work it out. A military dictator Fidel Castro seized Cuba. The U.S feared the worst because they were afraid Castro was a communist because he looked like one and talked like one. The plan for the U.S was to train the Cuba military to kill Fidel Castro. Bay of Pigs. -
Cuban Missile Crisis 13 Days
The Soviet Union attempted to attack Berlin with nuclear missiles. The U.S military forces prepared for a possible invasion in Cuba. America minutemen Missiles were poised to destroy every major city in the Soviet Union. In Washington Kennedy was pressed to attack Cuba. The situation was resolved by removing weapons and returning them to the Soviets under the U.S verification. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, on November 2, 1963, was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
Most importantly, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. -
1968
1968 was a year of protests. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of MLK
A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis.It was a tragic event for all the African American people that were supporters of Luther. -
Assassination of RFK
RFK was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The Riots of Democratic convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. The democracy also took place when Martin K was also on strike -
Democratic National Convention in Chicago
The Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered. -
Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State shooting
The incident occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. There were 28 soldiers who admitted to firing on top of the hill, 25 of these soldiers fired 55 rounds into the air and into the ground, two of the soldiers fired .45cal pistol shots, three into the crowd, and three into the air, one soldier fired bird shots into the air. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon talks to the Chinese people and makes a step towards communist. Nixon made a move calculated to drive an even deeper wedge between the two most significant communist powers. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men, about the same as the previous year. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. -
SDI announced
SDI announced was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
In Geneva Conference with Gorbachev two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was to divide Berlin from the German Democratic republic. The Berlin wall was mostly known by the "Anti-Fascist Protective Wall." -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Reagan had addressed the issue of the Berlin Wall. He wanted the Germany and the Berlins to get along because of democracy.
