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fall of berlin
The fall of Berlin was when Joseph Stalin used 20 armies, 6,300 tanks, and 8,500 aircraft to capture Berlin. -
iron curtain speech
The iron curtain speech was given by Winston Churchill and this meant there was an imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas. the term iron curtain symbolized the efforts by the soviet union to block itself from open contact with the non-soviet controlled states. -
molotov plan
this is was the system created by the soviets in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the soviet union -
hollywood ten hearing
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truman doctrine
this was an american foreign policy created to counter soviet geopolitical spread during the cold war, this was announced to congress by Harry S. Truman. -
marshall plan
this was an American way to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies -
berlin blockade
this 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. -
alger hiss case
Alger hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
berlin airlift
A military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin had cut off its supply routes. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. -
1st geneva convention
The Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea was adopted in 1906. It was significantly revised and replaced by the Second Geneva Convention of 1949. -
soviet atomic bomb test
the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, code named First Lightning, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. -
korean war
the Korean war began when north Korea invaded south Korea, the united nations and united states went to the aid of south Korea. China and the Soviet Union went to the aid of North Korea. -
Rosenberg case
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians, the treason could not be charged because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union. -
battle of dien bien phu
This battle was the climatic confrontation of the first Indochina war between the French Union's far east expeditionary corps and Viet Mihn communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
geneva conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, the purpose was to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
army-mccarthy hearing
This was a series of hearings held by the United States senate subcommittee on investigations. -
warsaw pact
this was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. -
invasion of hungary
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 incident
This occurred during the cold war, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a US U-2 plane was shot down while in soviet airspace. -
bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a cia financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. -
cuban missile crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. -
13 days
this is a 2000 american historical drama-thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, dramatizing the Cuban Missile, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. -
assassination of diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. -
assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
tunkin gulf resolution
President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. -
china and soviet nuclear test
The Soviet Union's nuclear test series was a group of 9 nuclear tests. These tests followed the 1962 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1965 Soviet nuclear tests series. -
operation rolling thunder
this was part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam -
tet offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
assassination of MLK
James Earl Ray, a confirmed racist and small-time criminal, shot and killed King in Memphis. -
assassination of RFK
Sirhan shot and killed Kennedy during a presidential primaries appearance, and was convicted of the crime the following year. -
invasion of czechoslovakia
this was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland -
riots at democratic national convention
This riots was when tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
election of richard nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
kent state shooting
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
nixon visits china
1972 Nixon visit to China. Richard Nixon meets with Mao Zedong in Beijing, February 21, 1972. U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and 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
this was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
election of ronald reagan
the United States presidential election of 1984 was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming one of only two candidates to do so -
announcement of SDI
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
'tear down this wall' speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US 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. -
berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin