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The Iron Curtain Speech
One of the most popular speeches of the Cold War period, the former Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and states, “An iron curtain has descended across the continent.”. This metaphorically represented the boarders in countries between free and soviet land -
Hollywood blacklist
The Hollywood blacklists as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other American entertainment professionals during the mid-20th century because they were accused of having communist ties or sympathies. Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympathy with the Communist Party USA or refusal to assist investigations into the party's activities. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Truman of America gave a speech announcing it will provide aid to other countries. Will the cold war was heating up, in a act to protect other nations from falling to Communism, He promised; Economic, Military, or Political aid to any country that asks. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in order to aid rebuilding the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union, to force them to remain in Russian Sphere's of influence, it was called "Soviet Marshall plan" by some. -
Marshall Plan
USA began pouring money into Western Europe to make sure no nation fell to Communism, they didn't give direct military suport to these countries, but gave them money for the USA's own interests. -
The Berlin Airlift
After the second world war the relationships of the allies broke down and Russia became hostile toward all others, so they began to blockade roads to allied occupied Berlin preventing imports, to save the isolated sector of Berlin, USA, UK, and France sent in air drops of food. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade initiated by the Soviet union Communists, was an attempted to demoralize/convert the Democratic side of Berlin. Soviets hoped by blocking all sea and land access to Western Berlin they would want to give up and maybe surrender Berlin through starvation. -
NATO
NATO was is a group of countries who agreed to protect each other in times of need with military assistance like a giant alliance. This was started by American in order to protect other countries from the Soviets expansion at the time -
Geneva Conference
The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held in 1864, is the first of four treaties of the Geneva Conventions. It defines "the basis on which rest the rules of international law for the protection of the victims of armed conflicts. After the first treaty in 1864, it was significantly revised by the Second Geneva Convention in 1906, followed by the Third Geneva Convention in 1929, and finally the Fourth Geneva Convention in 1949. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. and was a sign of Russia becoming a true power of the world. -
Alger Hiss Case
In the conclusion to one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, 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 nearly four years in jail, but steadfastly protested his innocence during and after his incarceration. -
Korean War
The Korean War in South Korean Hangul Hanja "Korean War"; in North Korean, Chosŏn'gŭl began when North Korea invaded South Korea.[38][39] 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. -
Rosenburg case
Rosenberg Case Overview. Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. -
McCarthy hearings
The Army McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Investigations.The purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the Army and Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and of Cohn's. McCarthy countered that this accusation was made in bad faith and in retaliation for his aggressive investigations of suspected Communists and risks in the Army. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose 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 Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China were participants throughout the conference while other countries concerned were represented during the discussion of questions of interest to them. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a alliance between the Soviet Union and 7 other Satellite states of the Soviet. This alliance was formed to counter balance NATO which the Democratic states formed. No real battles were fought between these factions. -
The Invasion of Hungary
The Hungary people staged a nation wide revolt against the government "The People's republic of Hungary". The Hungarian's at this time were basically serving to The Soviet Union. The Russian government sent in a invasion force to quell the revolt and make the Communist rule once again, which succeeded to crush the rebels. -
U-2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft, flown by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance when it was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. Powers parachuted safely and was captured. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA group Brigade 2506. A military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency, Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Front and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Armed Forces, under the direct command of Fidel Castro. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a wall made by the Soviet Union called "Anti-Facist wall" because government officals built it all around allied occupied Berlin because they didn't want Democracy spreading into the Russian controlled parts of Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh in November 1963. On 2 November 1963, Diệm and his adviser, his younger brother Ngô Đình Nhu, were arrested after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. The coup was the culmination of nine years of autocratic and nepotistic family rule in South Vietnam -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.[1] Fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, he was traveling with his wife, Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. -
Tonkin 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. It is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress. -
Project 596 (nuclear test)
People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964, at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power.
In response, the Taiwanese leadership, including President Chiang Kai-shek, called for a military response against Chinese nuclear facilities and the formation of an Asian anti-communist defense organisation -
Tet Offensive
This was the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The name of the offensive comes from the Tết holiday, the Vietnamese New Year, when the first major attacks took place -
Operation Rolling Thunder
A gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US Air, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the North Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during the Vietnam War. The objectives of the operation were to boost the sagging morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam, to persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. He was a brave and heroic man, his death was a lost for America and many people. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on Revolutionaries that rose up in Prague. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist states as a whole. -
Democratic National Convention
he convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities. At the 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. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered. -
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. Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years. -
Kent State shooting
In Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday. There were 28 soldiers who fired on top of the hill, these soldiers fired rounds into the air and into the ground, two of the soldiers fired, one soldier fired birdshot into the air The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
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. It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
A cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m., Saigon time. When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men, about the same as the previous year. -
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 and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic. The capture of the city was preceded by the evacuation of almost all the American civilian and military personnel in Saigon. -
Election of Ronad Reagan
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday. The contest was between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. Reagan, aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, won the election by a landslide. -
'Tear Down This Wall'
The "tear down this wall" speech was not the first time Reagan had addressed the issue of the Berlin Wall. In a visit to West Berlin in June 1982, he'd stated "I'd like to ask the Soviet leaders one question Why is the wall there?", and in 1986, 25 years after the construction of the wall, in response to West German newspaper Bild-Zeitung asking when he thought the wall could be "torn down", Reagan said, "I call upon those responsible to dismantle it. -
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 The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983.The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). -
Robert F. Kennedy
The assassination of Robert Kennedy, a Senator and brother of President John Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the 1968 presidential election. After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall began in the evening of and continued over the following days and weeks, with people nicknamed Mauerspechte using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings.Television coverage of citizens demolishing sections of the Wall on 9 November was soon followed by the East German regime announcing ten new border crossings, including the historically significant locations.
