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The Russian Revolution
riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in St. Peters-burg during the final phase of World War 1. In doing so, It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first Communist state. this led to the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference involved the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman who met in Potsdam, Germany, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The U.S. detonated two nuclear bombs that they have been developing for a while over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, one of its B-29s dropped a uranium gun-type bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, a plutonium implosion-type bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the separation of Eastern Europe from Western Europe at the end of World War II. Poland, Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the Soviet Union were separated from the West. From North Korea to Cuba more countries were separated from the West in the same sense. This Lasted Until the end of the Cold War. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the USSR in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries. It can be seen to be the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan. Soviet foreign minister rejected the Marshall Plan, proposing the Molotov Plan which was a symbolic USSR refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan because of the belief that the Plan was an attempt to weaken soviet interests through the conditions imposed and by making recipient countries economically dependent on the U.S. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was created by President Harry S. Truman which states that the United States should support and give aid to countries threatened by the Soviet Union. Truman asked the congress for money to support Greece and Turkey in which they gladly accepted. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan is a plan for the United States aids Western Europe and gave over 13 Billion in economic assistance to help build Europe. The Plan was intended to improve the economic situations of the countries of Western Europe and, at the same time, to discourage them from embracing communism. without the aid of it, Europeans would become communists and possibly starve. Although The United States offered support, All Eastern Germany and the Soviet Union Refused money from the United States. -
Alger Hiss Case
The Alger Hiss Spy Case was a case which an ex-communist, Whitaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss for being a Soviet Spy and convicted of perjury in connection. Hiss denied all Accusations.
On the second trial, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years. Hiss maintained his innocence until his death. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. As a result, the people of West Berlin were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post WWII Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. Western Allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. Aircrews flew providing to the West Berliners tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food as the airlift was clearly succeeding -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research that was authorized by Joseph Stalin although, the full-scale program was initiated only in response to the intelligence reports collected by Soviet intelligence through their spy ring in the United States on the Manhattan Project. After learning of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the program was aggressively pursued which the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first successful weapon test On 29 August 1949. -
N.A.T.O.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization or N.A.T.O. was formed. N.A.T.O. is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies during The Cold War -
The Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were 10 motion picture producers directors and screenwriters Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. They refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. The Hollywood 10 came to an end in 1960 -
Rosenburg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were accused of spying for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the United States government. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. They were also accused of providing top-secret information. Many other defenders maintained that Julius and Ethel were innocent of spying on their country. -
The Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Joseph McCarthy is the US Senator who threatened President Truman and accused many people of being communists. The media coverage greatly contributed to McCarthy's decline in popularity and his eventual censure by the Senate this is the end of the McCarthy Era. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and integration into the respective blocs. Its largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia the Pact was declared at an end at a meeting of defense and foreign ministers from the six remaining member states in Hungary.
