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1st Geneva Conference
For the Amelioration of the condition of the wounded in Armies in the field,held in 1864. Setting up voluntary relief societies who could be trained, during peacetime,to care for the wounded in time of war. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
The Soviet Union set up government that were lined up to them. In the 1946 Winston Churchill gave a speech and he meant that the Soviet Union had separated the Eastern European countries from the West. Churchill blamed the Soviet Union for this problem -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was announced in March 12 of 1947. It was made for the United States would support a democratic nation under threats from internal or external authority forces. The U.S. gave Greece and Turkey $400 million in economic to help these nation to be against communism. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created on 1947. It was to provide help to rebuild the countires in eatern Europe that were polictically and economically placed to the Soviet Union. This help allowed countires in Erupoe to stop relying on American help. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of Hollywood publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House UN-American Activities Committee. Was the practice of denying employment to screen writers, actors, directors, musicians. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was stared on June 3 of 1948. It was an American plan to help Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion. The goal was to rebuild the war devastated regions. An act to make world peace and the general welfare -
The Berlin Blockade
Was one of the first major inter nation crises of the Cold War. It was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States. Stalin was determine to force Western allies out of West Berlin and starve his people on the way. -
The Berlin Airlift
In the end of the World War 2, Germany was divided into the victors, the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France. A military operation that brought food and other needed things into West Berlin by air. -
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. Hiss served four years in jail, but protested his innocence during and after his incarceration. -
NATO
NATO was signed on April 4th of 1949. NATO is also called The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an alliance of 28 member countries roughly bording the North Atlantic Ocean. Nato's purpose is to protect the freedom of its members, against the Soviet Union aggression. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviet Atomic Bomb Test was in 1949. It was a top secret research program during World War 2. The Soviet atomic project gathered the plans of German nuclear energy project and the American nuclear efforts. The Soviet Union organized the first weapon test of nuclear device and was a success -
Korean War
The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, with assistance from the Soviet Union,came to the aid of North Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
The trail of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins in New York Southern District federal court. They were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried,convicted, and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage. They appealed to the U.S Supreme Court nine times. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the deciding engagement in the first Indochina war. The battle that settled the fate of French Indochina was in the beginning of November 1953. A force of 40,000 Viet Minh troops with heavy artillery had surrounded 15,000 French soldiers -
Army- McCarthy Hearings
It was a series of hearings held by the United States Subcommittee on Investigations. The hearing were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States and senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva Conference
It was a conference that took place in Geneva Switzerland. The purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean Peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was formed on May 14, 1955 and was dissolved on July 1, 1991. It was a NATO treaty was among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was to provide counterbalance to NATO and go up with the international agreement power to the Soviet Union. -
The Invasion of Hungary
The Invasion of Hunagry was in 1956. The riot started a student demostration that got the attention of many people. One student died and was wrapped in a flag and held above the people. And the riot moved very fast to Hungary and the government went down -
Hungarian Revolution
Was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the the end of Wold War II and broke into central Eastern Europe. -
U2 Incident
When United States U2 plane was shot down while in Soviet Airspace. It was the brainchild of the Central Intelligence Agency. Equipped with state of the art photography that could take high solution pictures of Russian newspaper. -
Bay of Pigs
It was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. The Cuban exile brigade began its invasion at an isolated spot on the island's Southern shore. The invasion was a disaster. -
" Tear Down this Wall " speech
This speech was made by U.S President Ronald Reagan on June 12,1987. Calling for the leader of the Soviet Union. To open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
The Berlin Wall
The purpose of the wall was to divide Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The division was between West Berlin ans East Germany in order to keep East Germans from feeling to the West. The wall was also referred as the " Anti- Fascist Protective wall" -
13 Days
Was the making the most dangerous period of the Cuban missile crisis begin. President Kennedy and principal foreign policy and national defenses official are briefed on the U2 findings. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13 days confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. Wondering about the American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
On November 2 of 1963, was when the brutal murder of the President of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem. In the wake of assassination, American policy toward the war in Vietnam changed dramatically. -
Assassination Of JFK
On November 22 of 1963, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated whiole traveling through Dallas, Texas in an open top-convertiable at 12:30 p.m. by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Two U.S ships were fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. President Johnson requested permission from the U.S. Congress to increase the U.S. military presence in Indochina -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam. This massive was interned to put military pressure of North Vietnam's Communists leaders and reduce their capacity to wage was against U.S. -
Tet Offensive
Was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. Some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive. A coordinated series a fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Assassination Of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr, was an American clergyman and civil right leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, on April 4,1968. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. -
Assassination Of RFK( Robert F. Kennedy)
Was an American politician from Massachusetts . He served as the United junior from New York. He was the 64th U.S. Attorney General. Kennedy was shot several times by the 22 year old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
The Invasion Of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was in 1968. It was an invasion by four Warsaw Pact Nations. Warsaw Pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night. But Romania and Albania did not want to be part of the war. -
Riots of Democratic Natuonal Convention in Chicago
It was held at the International Amphitheater in Chicago Illinois. President Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election. The purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee -
Election Of Richard Nixon
Was the 46th representational, held on Tuesday November 5,1968. Nixon campaigned on a platform designed to reach the " silent majority" of middle class and working class Americans. He promised to "bring us together again." And Nixon became the 46th president of The United States. -
Kent State Shooting
Occurred at Kent State University in Kent Ohio. Students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students. The Kent State shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Nixon Vists Chia
President Nixon took the first step to normalize the relation with the communists People's Republic of China. It marked the fist time a U.S President had visited the PRC, which at the time considered the U.S one of its foes. Visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Cease- Fire goes into effect on January 27. Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam territory.. 85 percent of population. South Vietnamese forces continued to take back villages occupied by communists in the two days before the cease fire deadline. -
Fall Of Saigon
The North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon with little resistance, and it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Minh city. In honor of their revolutionary leader. He died several years before. -
Election Of Ronald Reagan
Was the 49th Presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Reagan became a popular two-term president. He cut taxes, increased defense spending . And reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War -
Annoucement Of SDI (Star Wars)
Strategic defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack of the Soviet Union. The SDI would require extremely advanced technological system, yet to be researched and developed. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The head of the East German Communist Party announced, that people could cross the border whenever they pleased. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself.
