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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a time of social and political revolution across the Russian Empire. The Russian Revolution is what caused the establishment of the Soviet Union by Bolsheviks and the end of the civil war. -
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The U.S. detonated two nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombs killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union, the new American president, Harry S. Truman, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain attended the conference. The meeting established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. -
Long Telegram (Containment)
George F. Kennan deciphered the soviet stating, "...at the bottom of the Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is the traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity." He was implying that Stalin needed to present the world as cruel in order to justify his immoral ways of governing. Kennan later proposed a long term containment of Russia. -
Iron Curtain (Containment)
The Iron Curtain was a metaphorical, non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. "Iron Curtain" symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet Union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Europe and Asia that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The UK told the US that they could no longer afford to fight communist rebellions in Greece and Turkey, so US President Harry S. Truman issued what would become known as the Truman Doctrine: a promise that the US would do what was needed both economically and militarily to avoid the spread of communism around the world. -
The Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 is a short documentary film each member in the Hollywood 10 took turns denouncing McCarthyism. -
The Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was used because Stalin had made a uniform currency out of the blockade and helped aid his country. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation that brought food and other necessary supplies into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes. -
NATO
NATO stands for the (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The Bomb Test was a research development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin to develop nuclear weapons in WW11 -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two states. -
The Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg Trial was a trial of the Rosenberg's they were executed because of espionage. -
The Army McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's there were accusations towards Joseph McCarthy. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact is a treaty of friendship and assistance between the two nations of Poland and the Soviet Union -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian revolution was a nationwide revolution against Hungaria and its population also against its republic. -
The U2 Incident
The U-2 was an american aircraft that was shot down by soviet anti aircraft missiles on May 1 The U-2 was a spy plane that was subjected to take photographs of Russia. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The bay of pigs invasion April 17, 1961 1400 exiles that made the Bay of Pigs in the south west of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a blockade that protected West Berlin from the invasion of East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missile Crisis was to scare the conflict between the United states and the Soviet Union away from both countries so no war started. It began when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. -
Assassination of JFK
The 35th president to run for election in the united states John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered in Dallas Texas. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a Warsaw pact that was intertwined between 5 different countries those countries consisted of the Soviet union, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary and Germany. -
Nixon visits China
When Nixon visited china it was a strategy to disrupt the relations between between china and the United states. -
Reagan elected
Reagan was elected on November 4, 1980 he was the 49th president to run in office for the United State. -
SDI announced
The SDI is the Strategic Defensive Initiative that is by the United States about possible nuclear attacks. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
This conference was between the leader of the United States and the leader of the Soviet Union they had talks about arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
This was a speech taken place in west Berlin by President Ronald Reagan wanting the wall to be opened between West and East Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This wall was a concrete structure that was built to divide Berlin into the fall of the wall took place on
