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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a set of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy. This would eventually result in the rise of the Soviet Union -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, during the final stage of World War II. -
Iron Curtain
It was the boundary dividing Europe into separate areas at the end of WWII. -
Truman Doctrine
The United States would provide any protection for a country under attack from external or internal authoritarian forces. The doctrine rewrote the U.S. original foreign policy plan. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the film industry were denounced. They were convicted of being soviet spy's even though they made anti communist propaganda movies. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system that was 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. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a recovery program to aid European countries get back onto their feet. -
Berlin Blockade
24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949. 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. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. -
NATO
A organization of Northern American and European countries with a military alliance. -
Soviet bomb test
In the awaking of the Soviets discovering the American nuclear project they rushed to make their own bomb before WWII was over. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was a U.S. government official that was accused of being a Soviet spy. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance. -
Rosenburg trial
The trial of the Rosenburg couple as they were convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The fist Indochina confrontation between the French Union's expeditionary force and the Viet Minh communist-nationalist. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Was dominating national television in 1954, saying he had a list of communists. The hearings were to see if he was correct about this list of communists. -
Geneva Conference
A meeting between nations to discuss the issues of the Korean war and bringing peace to Indochina. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between these communist states. The Soviet Union, Democratic Socialist Republic of Bulgaria, Democratic Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia, Democratic Socialist Republic of Hungry, Democratic Socialist Republic of Poland, Democratic Socialist Republic of Romania. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarians wanted a democratic political system and freedom. Soviet tanks rolled in crushing the national uprising in the country. -
U2 Incident
An american pilot was shot down over Soviet airspace. He was impression by the Soviet government for spying. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The invasion was a failed attempt of trying to destroy the communist rule in Cuba. The CIA had trained a paramilitary group to invade and take over. -
Berlin Wall
The wall divided Berlin in a psychical and political way. One side was controlled by the U.S and it's allies, while the other was controlled by the Soviet Union and it's allies. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A thirteen day confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was trying to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and the U.S. navy was denying them access to Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem was to help the U.S. in South Vietnam. Diem was not the leader that the U.S. had hopped him to be so they got rid of him. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was the 35th president of the united states. He was in Dallas Texas when he was assassinated in a motorcade. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
A U.S destroyer was patrolling the waters off the cost of North Vietnam when it was attacked from patrol boats. Johnson asked congress to give him full power to do anything with the forces in Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The U.S. airforce targeted vietcong targets in North Vietnam. The bombings weren't as effective as the U.S. thought, so they sent in ground troops. -
Tet Offensive
Tet is usually a holiday were both North and South Vietnam would ceasefire and celebrate. The North Vietnamese had other plans, they launched a massive surprise attack in major cites in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was the leader of the civil rights movement in America, he also wanted the war in Vietnam to end. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee right outside of his motel. -
Assassination of RFK
RFK was shot right outside of his hotel. He had just won the presidential primaries in California. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw pact invades Czechoslovakia. They called the operation Danube the invading countries were the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. -
Election of Nixon
The election was to decide the 46th president of the United States. Nixon won by a landslide, because he talked about ending the war in Vietnam. -
Kent State
Anti war protesters rallied at the University to protest against the war. The national guard was called in and accidentally killed 4 students. -
Nixon visits China
Wants to make relations toward the communist People’s Republic of China. He surprised the U.S. citizens by making a planned visit to the country. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The ceasefire marked the end of the Vietnam war. All U.S. troops in Vietnam would return to the United States in time. -
Fall of Saigon
As the last of the U.S. forces left Vietnam, the Viet Cong mounted a massive attack against Saigon. When the last U.S. helicopter left the Viet Cong stormed the city with tanks and took over. -
Reagan elected
Was originally in the Hollywood 10 and then was governor of California. When he became president he put a radical stop to the spread of communism. -
SDI announced
A system of satellites orbiting earth, they would defend against a Soviet missile attack. The Soviet's thought this "Star Wars" as a threat. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
It was the first time in eight years that these two super powers had met. At the official table tensions were high, but one on one both leaders became friends. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
It was not the fist time that Reagan had said something about the wall. Among the spectators was the president of East-Germany. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was originally put up by the Soviet Union, so that no Weastrn nation could take it from them. At the end of the Soviet Unions era it was ordered to be demolished.
