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Army-McCarthy hearings
In a confrontation, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashed out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. Welch's verbal assault marked the end of McCarthy's power during the anti-communist hysteria of the Red Scare in America. -
Russian Revolution
The Bolsheviks were set out to cure Russia of its injustices that arouse from social class differences. The revolution marked the end of a dynasty that had lasted 300 years and concluded with the seizure of power by a small revolutionary group. The Tsar was replaced with a Council of People’s Commissars and private ownership was abolished. The Communist movement began to grow worldwide, which scared the capitalist world. The strength of Communism didn’t last. -
Soviet bomb test
Soviet bomb test was the classified research that was a development program that was approved by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the wall that was dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. -
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Potsdam Conference
The conference of Potsdam was the third conference between the leaders of the Big Three nations. The Soviet Union was represented by Joseph Stalin while Britain by Winston Churchill, and the United States by President Harry S. Truman. At the Potsdam meeting, the most important issue was the fate of Germany in time. -
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Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
An atomic bomb was dropped directly over a city of about 320,000, the bomb vaporized over 70,000 people instantly and caused fires over two miles away. Two days later, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, where 80,000 Japanese people perished. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
They refused to go to trial so they were put on the Hollywood blacklist, list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist or subversive ties, generated by Hollywood studios -
Alger Hiss case
Former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II. -
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Berlin Blockade
As an outcome of the Soviet blockade, the people of West Berlin were left without food, clothing, or medical supplies. Some U.S. officials pushed for an aggressive response to the Soviet provocation, but calmer heads thought of a plan for an airlift of supplies to West Berlin was developed. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a plan created to aid Western Europe after World War 2. Western Europe was devastated with many deaths and serious injuries, they also invested a lot of money in the war. The idea was proposed to try and prevent the poor people of Western Europe to like Communist ideals. -
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Berlin Airlift
Russians had cut off access from the Allied zones of occupation in West Germany to West Berlin, which was in the Russian zone. So the Allies had to either surrender West Berlin or they had to supply it by air. That's when the aircraft came to use on supplying to the other side. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy. Its purpose stated to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947. Which it further developed on July 12, 1948 he pledged to contain the threats made to Greece and Turkey. -
NATO
NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. Its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation. -
Rosenburg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. They were sharing them during and after World War II. They were both later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953. -
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Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a result of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was a significant turning point in Indochina. The battle was fought between the French and the Vietminh -
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Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War -
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Warsaw Pact
It was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
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Hungarian Revolution
Nagy then tried to push the Hungarian revolt forward by abolishing one-party rule. He also announced that Hungary was withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact. Instead a nationwide revolt against the Communist regime of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
Was confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
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Bay of Pigs invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
The wall was put up on which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response the Communist East German authorities built a wall that encircled West Berlin. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Assassination of Diem
President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam, but also lead to political chaos in the nation. The United States subsequently became more heavily involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming an increasingly powerful threat. -
Assassination of JFK
The mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing 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. -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a bombing campaign that began on March 2, 1965. In response to a Viet Cong attack on a U.S. air base at Pleiku. The Johnson administration cited a number of reasons for shifting U.S. strategy to include systematic aerial assaults on North Vietnam. -
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Tet Offensive
It was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at the hospital. -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Earlier that evening, the 42-year-old junior senator from New York was declared the winner in the South Dakota and California presidential primaries in the 1968 election. -
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Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of czechoslovakia was meant to break down on reformist trends in Prague. The Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist -
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Riots of Democratic convention
Riots of Democratic convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th presidential election. November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee,former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
The Kent State shooting, was the shootings on May 4, 1970, of college students that were unarmed and they were by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces started shooting rounds at the students. -
Nixon visits China
The reputation of being a staunch anti-Communist. Was largely immune to any criticism of being "soft on Communism" by figures on the right of American politics he did not seem to mind. The phrase originated prior to Nixon's actual visit to China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Paris Peace Accords, officially titled the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Saigon
On April 30, 1975, Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing the Vietnam War to an end. -
Reagan elected
President Ronald Reagan helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. He solidified the conservative agenda for decades after his presidency. He was known for his conservative Republicanism, his fervent anti-communism. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program.It 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. This was our way to scare them. -
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
Berlin Wall, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period. They were stuck to live there until they tore it down -
Fall of Berlin Wall
East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. More then half of the population left when the wall was being taken down.
