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It was a revolution caused by the scarcity of food during the end of WW1, and it transformed the Russian empire. It led to the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Boundary dividing Europe into two. It separated the Soviet Union from the West.
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It was a conference that involved United States, Soviet Union, and Britain to discuss the fate of Germany post war. It was held in Potsdam just outside of Berlin.
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During WWII the United States used two nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. President Harry S. Truman ordered the bomb after Japan warned of horrific American casualties if they were invaded.
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It was a foreign policy created by the America to counter the Soviet Union's geopolitical expansion. It stated that the United States would provide military and economical assistance to democratic nations under threat.
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Plan made by Americans to give aid to Western Europe. They gave $13 billion in economic assistance.
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Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies road, railways, and canal access to sectors in Berlin. It was the first major international crisis of the Cold War.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization that serves as a military alliance to several North American and European countries.
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It was the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan. It surprised the U.S.
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Ten Hollywood film industry members who publicly refused to answer questions about their communist affiliations .They each made speeches denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting, getting them sent to prison.
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War between North Korea and South Korea, when North Korea invaded the South. They clashed along the borders since North was communist and South was not.
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The Soviet government announced Khrushchev to the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. This was the most crucial step that led to his rise in power.
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Military doctrine and nuclear strategy that allows a state to commit itself to retaliation when under attack. It was adopted by President Eisenhower to counter the growing Soviet Union threat.
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A series of hearing held by the United States senate's subcommittee to investigate accusations of senator Joseph McCarthy. He spent 5 years trying to expose communists.
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It was a collective defensive treaty signed in Warsaw,Poland by the Soviet Union. It was an alliance between communist nations in Eastern Europe.
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It was a war with the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The United States was the South's principle ally.
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It was a nationwide revolt against the communist government. It ended when Hungary withdrew from the Warsaw pact.
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During the Cold War when a United State's plane was shot down while in Soviet Union airspace. It concluded in a meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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A failed military invasion of Cuba. 1400 Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs.
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A 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union about the installation of nuclear armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. They tried to reach a compromise to avoid nuclear war.
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A period in the Cold War where United states and the Soviet union's tensions were at ease. It was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
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It was a strategy made by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union. The main goal was to diminish Soviet Union's influence and end the Cold War.
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President Ronald Reagan delivers a speech to the people of West Berlin to tear down the Berlin wall. It was a memorable speech where he mentioned how the wall was a symbol of the dark times during the Cold War.
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The East Berlin's communist party announced a change with the West. At Midnight they declared that the citizens of East Germany were now free to cross.
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A guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 19961 to 1989. It prevented thousands of East Germans from entering.
