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The Iron Curtain Speech
One of the most famous events of the Cold War period, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” -
the truman doctrine
It was an american foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. -
The hollywood ten
A group of film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They were listed for the communist affiliations -
the Molotov Plan
It was a system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were economically and politically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Marshall plan
I was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, the United States gave over $12 billion for economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
The berlin airlift
At the end of the Second World War the U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. They were occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
The berlin blockade
It 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 railways, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Alger hiss case
He was a former communist accussed of espionage he testified before the House Unamerican Activities Committee -
N.A.T.O. (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization(N.A.T.O) was a intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Soviet nuclear test
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. Scares Amarican people tremendously. -
China and Soviet nuclear test
it was a group of 3 nuclear tests conducted by 1949-1951 -
Korean war
it started when north Korea invaded south korea, the USA as the main force went to south korea with aid. China and the soviet union went to north korea with aid. -
Rosenberg Case
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in july 1950 a couple weeks later after the korean war began. Him and his wife(ethel) were executed on june 19 1953. They were US citizens who spied for the soviet union and then were tried, convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
It was the climactic confrontation of the first Indochina War between the French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist nationalist revolutionaries -
Army McCarthy hearings
It was a series of hearings held by the USA senate's subcommittee on investigations of accusations of communist in the USA -
The Geneva Conference
It was a conference which too place Geneva, Switzerland, the purpose was to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and to discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina -
the warsaw pact
It 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
It was the hungarian uprising, a nationwide revolt against the government and its soviet imposed policies, it ended November 10th 1956 -
U2 incident
It occurred during the cold war, during Dwight D. Eisenhower a US U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Bay of the pigs invasion
The bay of the pigs was a failed militart invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA -
The Berlin Wall
The wall completely cut off west Berlin from surrounding east germany and from east Berlin until government officials opened it in november 1989, it was built by the German democratic republic(east germany) -
Cuban missile crisis
It was a confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union concerning american ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
Assassination of Diem
It was a brutal murder -
Assasination of JFK (John F. Kennedy)
He was shot twice and an hour later after his death Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Lyndon Johnson announced that 2 days earlier that the US ships in the Gulf of tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
It was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by 4 Warsaw pact nations, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland
