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Lyndon Johnson
Was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States. He was the only U.S. president to resign the office. -
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was the youngest man to be elected to the office. -
George Bush (Senior)
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was 41st President of the United States. -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States. -
China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war fought from 1927 to 1950, because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party. -
Francis Gary Powers
He was often referred to as Gary Powers. He was as an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace. -
When did Gorbachev come to power?
His efforts to democratize his country’s political system and decentralize its economy led to the downfall of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. -
World War II ended.
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
The United Nations was born.
The United Nations was born of perceived necessity, as a means of better arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace than was provided for by the old League of Nations. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill. This was the man that gave the speech. British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. -
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Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
NATO
he North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. -
H-Bomb
H-Bomb stands for Hydrogen Bomb. A weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes. -
Stalins Death
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. -
End of the Korean War
United States, the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end. -
Mutually Assured Destruction/ MAD Plan
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. -
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
In the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. -
When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba?
Fidel Castro took over Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
When was JFK shot and killed?
November 22, 1963 was when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed. -
NASA's first moon landing
July 20, 1969 was when NASA first landed on the moon. -
SALT-First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces. -
Miracle on Ice
Was the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22. -
U.S. boycott of the summer olympics
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan spurred Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on January 20, 1980 that the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. -
STAR WARS- Strategic Defense Initiative
was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
When did the Soviets leave Afghanistan?
the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan. -
Tiananmen Square
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing. -
Berlin Wall Falls
The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American politician and general who served as the 34th President of the United States. -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985, no one predicted the revolution he would bring. -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation.
