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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolutions eventually led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The participants were the Russian Society, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, SR's, etc. The Russian Revolutions also led to the beginning of the Russian Civil War. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviets, under Joseph Stalin's order, started to conduct a classified experiment to explore the world of nuclear weapons. In the end, they had successfully created an atomic bomb, and cracked the code. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, where the participants included the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The objective of this conference was to establish postwar order, peace treaty issues, and the countering effects of the war. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Atomic Bomb was a nuclear bomb that could wipe out neighborhoods, towns, to even cities. Nuclear bombs are significant to wars where a nation is against a whole entire country because the nation could use the nuclear bomb to wipe out many of their enemy. Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the line that divided Europe during the Cold War. This was significant because it intensified the divide between East and West Germany -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 was a list of ten people, specifically screenwriters and directors, that had some sort of involvement in the Communist party. This was important because they had sneaked in some sort of Communist propaganda in their films and work. -
Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctorine was created to fight against Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. The United States created this because we are against communism. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade cut off all sorts of contact and supply from anywhere else in the world. Berlin was under control by West Germany. The Western Allies had conspired to supply goods to Berlin by plane, and this was important because West Germany couldn't shoot the planes down, because then a war would break out. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was created by the United States to aid Western European economies after World War II. They ended up giving over 12 billion dollars to them. This brought about European prosperity and assurance. -
NATO
NATO is the intergovernmental military alliance between twenty nine American and European Countries. The NATO treaty was signed in 1949, and this led to NATO still existing today. -
Korean War
The Korean War was between North and South Korea. Northern Korea invaded Southern Korea, each side claimed to have the true government. This led to the Korean Armistice Agreement. -
Khruschev Takes Over
Khruschev had been selected to be a secretary of the Communist party. He had also held a few more important positions of the government a few years later. This resulted in Khruschev wanting more and more power, and came to his taking over. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
These hearings led to the fading popularity and support of McCarthy. The hearing broadcasts dominated television for quite a time. These hearings captured national attention. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
This policy made by Eisenhower was made to counter the growing Soviet threat. Eisenhower said that if we were under attack, we would gladly use our nuclear weapons to counter the attack. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was signed in Warsaw, Poland and was made to be an establishment of power, and was used to expand military forces. Overall, there were many benefits to the Warsaw Pact, and these led to revolutions. -
The Vietnam War
This war was fought between Northern and Southern Vietnam. The Vietnam War resulted in all three countries becoming communist. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a national revolt against Hungary's leaders. People would march throughout the streets revolting and protesting. Eventually, these protests resulted in the overthrowing of power in Hungary. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Spy Plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Forces. As a result of the spy plane incident and the attempted cover-up, the Four Power Paris Summit was not completed. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba. The failed invasion helped to strengthen the position of Castro's leadership. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall divided Berlin from all else. This was in effect until 1989. This resulted in the United States stepping in and Airlifting goods to Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to Cuba's request to place nuclear missiles on the island to deter a future invasion. These missiles were confirmed to be real. This resulted in a creation of a nuclear hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Detente under Nixon
Detente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. Both countries stood to gain if trade could be increased and the danger of nuclear warfare reduced. -
The Reagan Doctorine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. The doctrine was the centerpiece of United States foreign policy from the early 1980s until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. This lead to inspiration. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall–they became known as “mauerspechte,” or “wall woodpeckers”—while cranes and bulldozers pulled down section after section. The people felt relief.
