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Russian revolution
Started march 8 1917 and ended on November 7 1917. It was a pair of revolutions that led to the destruction of the Tsarist autocracy and the rise of the soviet union. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Allied leaders met to discuss the terms of the end of WWII. Truman and Churchill wanted to secure political freedom and a democratic government throughout Europe while Stalin wanted to take over Europe and rule it as a Communist leader. -
Atomic bomb Hiroshima Nagasaki
A direct order from president Truman to drop nukes on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. The bombs hit on August 6th and 9th 1945. -
The 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. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. It was to help stop communism. -
The Iron Curtain
The name used to describe the boundary lined dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2 until the end of the cold war. -
Hollywood 10
They were a group of actors and filmmakers that refused to answer any questions HUAC asked them. They all received jail sentences and could not work in any major Hollywood studios. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
The Berlin Airlift
U.S. begins Berlin Airlift. On this day in 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is isolated by a Soviet Union blockade. When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
Greatly aided by its successful Soviet Alsos and the atomic spies, the Soviet Union conducted its first weapon test of an implosion-type nuclear device, RDS-1, codenamed First Lightning, on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR. -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was an American government official he was accused of being a communist spy for the soviets and later was convicted for the crime. -
Rosenburg trial
The Rosenberg trial was held in 1950 because Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of selling nuclear bomb secrets to the soviets. -
U2 incedent
Ocurred on May 1st 1950, An American U2 jet was flying in Soviet air space and was shot down. The U2 was supposed to pictures of secret military science. The pilot was captured and used for propaganda. -
Korean war
The war started when north Korea invaded south Korea on june 25 1950. The United states and the United Nations aided the South Koreans meanwhile the Soviets and China aided the North. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of that the US senate held to investigate soviet spy accusations. They believed that people working for the US government and army under McCarthy were spy's. -
Geneva Conference
In an effort to resolve several problems in Asia, including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina, representatives from the world’s powers meet in Geneva. -
Warsaw Pact
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. -
Hungarian Revolution
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, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion began on April 17 1961 and lasted 3 days. The invasion was a failed invasion into Cuba. The army was made up of Cuban exiles who traveled to the US after Castro's takeover. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.[1] Constructed by the German Democratic R -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day period where the US and soviets had controversy about where one another could place their missiles. In the end we reached an agreement with the soviets, the agreement was that the US would remove their misses from Turkey and and Italy if the soviets removed theirs from Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, on November 2, 1963, 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. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 7, 1964, 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. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War -
Assassination of MLK
A confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968 -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
the Soviet Union led troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia stop reformist in Prague. The soviets were concerned that if they reformed that other countries would try to also. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
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. -
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 on Monday, May 4, 1970. -
Nixon visits China
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
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam -
Election of Ronad Reagan
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. The contest was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan -
Announcment 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 -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
This Geneva Conference was held with Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. This was the first time Reagan and Gorbachev met. The conference was held to discuss international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
'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.[1] -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
