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Russian revolution
In Russia, the February Revolution begins on this day in 1917, when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in St. Petersburg. In 1917, most Russians lost faith in the leadership ability of the czarist regime. -
Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bombing
American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The blast ended up reducing four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. -
Iron Curtain
known as the influence of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe: "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" an area that was meant to be a limitation to the soviets area of takeing over. -
Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was a simple system created by the Soviet Union in order to give aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe at the time they were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was created to help aid several nations like Turkey and Greece. -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House and refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
marshall plan
American initiative 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. -
Berlin Airlift
A mission that was made to help support Berlin in an attempt to give the country food, supplies, and other necessities even candy for the children to help reassure them. -
Berlin Blockade
the Berlin Blockade was the attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to take the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their areas of Berlin.which layed within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
Alger Hiss Case
A Government official was accused of being a soviet spy in 1948 then in 1950 he was convicted of perjury. -
NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)The North Atlantic Treaty created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift
All these B-29's dropping supplies, food, candy, anything that aided all the bad stuff going on in Berlin it was meant to help the berliners. -
Soviet bomb test
The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. The U.S. was shocked about this because we thought that our countries were the only ones to make an atomic bomb. -
Korean War
The war that basically divided korea into two parts, North Korea and South Korea -
Rosenburg trial
The Rosenburgs were accused of espionage on America's secrets for the atomic bomb to the soviets and were then executed -
Army-McCarthy hearings
a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations -
battle of Dien Bien Phu
Was a battle near a bunker between the french and the vietminh where the french were basically set up for massacre. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was supposed to help settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
Warsaw Pact
a political and military alliance created between the Soviet Union and many Eastern European countries. -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, that lasted for a few months. -
U2 Incident
U2 plane was Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane in Russia -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A group of Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. The plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution -
Berlin Wall
The berlin wall was a thing put up by east Germany to keep people from leaving and entering berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Assassination of Diem
The CIA sent word to the White House that Diệm and Nhu were dead, allegedly by suicide. Vietnam Radio had announced their deaths by poison, and that they had committed suicide while prisoners in an APC transporting them to Tân Sơn Nhứt. -
Assassination of JFK
Our president was shot while in a parade for dumb reasons -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
authorized President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division -
Tet Offensive
North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. ... The Tet Offensive was important back then for the war. -
Assasination Of RFK
Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot one night which then led to his death later -
invasion of Czechoslovakia
the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. The convention was held during a year of violence, political uneasiness, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4. -
Election Of Nixon
Nixon was elected up against Hubert H Humphrey in 1968 and won by 290 electoral votes -
Kent State
There was a shooting at kent state involving the death of 4 students about 48 years ago to this year -
Nixon Visits China
an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the high point of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire In Vietnam
a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Saigon
this marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -
Reagan Elected
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4th 1980 -
SDI Announced
President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Tear down This Wall Speech
Speech made by Ronald Reagan to the people of Berlin about the wall being brought down. -
Fall of Berlin.
The wall of Berlin finally came down
