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House Un-American Activitites Committee
The HUAC was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. -
End of World war II
The US dropped 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan, making them surrender. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism. -
Berlin Airlift
Accommodating the large number of flights to Berlin required maintenance schedules and fixed cargo loading times. Smith and his staff developed a complex timetable for flights called the "block system" -
Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War (1927-1949/1950) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party), the governing party of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China (CPC) (also known as CCP - Chinese Communist Party), for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into two Chinas, Republic of China (ROC) and People's Republic of China (PRC). -
Rosenberg Execution
At Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and executed by hanging as a war criminal. -
McCarthy Trials
By 1953, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy had become one of America's best-known politicians through his campaigns to uncover subversives in government -
Hungarian Revolt of 1956
he Hungarian Revolution or Uprising [4] of 1956 (Hungarian: 1956-os forradalom or felkelés) was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Cuban Revolution of 1959
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U2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
The barrier was built slightly inside East Berlin or East German territory to ensure that it did not encroach on West Berlin at any point. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis (known as the October Crisis in Cuba or Caribbean Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War. -
Limited Test Ban Treaty
It is a treaty prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground. -
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, or the USS Maddox Incident, are the names given to two separate confrontations, one actual and one now realized as non-existent, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that began on January 31, 1968. -
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
On the night of 20–21 August 1968, the Soviet Union and her main satellite states in the Warsaw Pact – Bulgaria, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary and Poland – invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in order to halt Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring political liberalization reforms -
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 the People's Republic of China. -
SALT 1 Treaty
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. -
Fall of Saigon
he Fall of Saigon or Liberation of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front on April 30, 1975. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers. -
1980 Olympic Boycott
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan -
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
he Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,[1] to use ground- and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
After allowing for loopholes throughout the summer, Hungary effectively disabled its physical border defenses with Austria on 19 August 1989 and, in September, more than 13,000 East German tourists escaped through Hungary to Austria -
Break up of Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on December 25, 1991.
