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HUAC
Hollywood 10. The Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was originally established in 1937 under the chairmanship of Martin Dies. The main objective of the HUAC was the investigation of un-American and subversive activities. -
Yalta Conference
This conference was held toward the end of WWII. The Yalta Conference was held in a resort town called Yalta. The "Big Three" decided the fate of post war Europe. -
Potsdam Conference
Meeting in Potsdam, Germany, the “Big Three” (President Truman, Premier Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill) discussed post-war arrangements in Europe, without coming to many agreements. One result of the conference was the joint proclamation by the US, Great Britain and China fighting Japan. It ended with an ultimatum: Japan had to agree to an unconditional surrender. -
Atomic Bomb
The first time the U.S. uses Atomic Bomb was in war. Conducted two Atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Killed 220000 people in Japan. -
UN Created
United Nations The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October each year. -
Truman Doctrine
Often considered the start of the Cold War, United States President Harry S. Truman introduced a policy stating that the US would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military air to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. His reasoning being, because these “totalitarian regimes” coerced “free peoples”, they represented a threat to international peace and the national security of the United States. -
Marshall Plan
is announced setting a precedent for helping countries combat poverty, disease and malnutrition. Nations were assisted greatly in their economic recovery. Steel industries helped to shape what we know now as the European Union. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of WWII, a defeated Germany was divided amongst the victors, the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany, the Western half was divided amongst the US, Great Britain, and France. Like the rest of the country, the capital city of Berlin, sitting dead in the middle of the Soviet-controlled Eastern half, was also divided into four parts, one half being Soviet controlled, and the rest divided amongst the other -
Berlin Blockade
During post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway access to areas of Berlin. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practically all control over the city. This was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. -
Containment
NATO ratified, North Altantic Treaty organization. This treaty involved 12 nations including the United Kingdom. This was after the stopping of communism. -
NATO
NATO or North Atlantic Treaty Organization founded. The member states of NATO are the two North American countries of Canada and the United States along with 26 countries in Europe. This made a pact within the members that they would offer protection to other members upon being attacked. -
Blockade Ends
Berlin blockade ends. -
Nuclear Arms Race
After the Manhattan Project during World War II, the Nuclear Arms Race began. This was a competition between the United States (NATO) and the Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact) on who could create the strongest, deadliest, nuclear weapons. It became very dangerous when the United States created the H-bomb in 1952, followed by the Soviet Union who created the same thing in 1953. During the 1960s a policy of MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) developed, preventing an attack from either side. -
Joseph McCarthy
The start of the McCarthy Era, which was named after the Senator from Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy, was an unfounded witch hunt for communist, which led to no known convictions of communism. McCarthy took advantage of a nation under stress and fear from the Cold War and made many believe that there was a major threat of communism within the government and among neighbors. The tomfoolery came to an end when McCarthy accused the US Army of being communists, which again turned up no communists. -
Korean War
Korean War begins. Stalin supports North Korea who invade South Korea equipped with Soviet weapons. Also, Being the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War, the Korean War was between the Republic of Korea (which was supported by the UN) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (which was supported by China and the Soviet Union). Was a result of the physical division of Korea (along the 38th Parallel) by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the end of the World War II? -
Leader of USSR
Joseph Stalin was the leader. One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history, Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact alliance of the East European socialist states is the nominal counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on the European continent (see fig. A, this Appendix). Unlike NATO, founded in 1949, however, the Warsaw Pact does not have an independent organizational structure but functions as part of the Soviet Ministry of Defense. In fact, throughout the more than thirty years since it was founded, the Warsaw Pact has served as one of the Soviet Union's primary mecha -
Vietnam War
North Vietnam defeats South Vietnam which falls to Communist forces. This was a Cold War-era military conflict between North Vietnam (supported by its communist allies) and South Vietnam (supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations), which took place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. North Vietnam used guerilla warfare while South Vietnam relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower. -
Sputnik
Sputnik launched into orbit. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the Space Age. -
NASA
NASA began Mercury project using Atlas rocket. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. His first assignment was with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) in Cleveland. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). -
Leader of Cuba
Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro, the illegitimate son of a successful Creole sugar plantation owner, was born in Cuba in 1926. He was a rebellious boy and at the age of thirteen helped to organize a strike of sugar workers on his father's plantation. -
U2 Crisis
During the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers, as well as photos of military bases in Russia taken by Powers. Coming rough -
Leader of U.S.
John F. Kennedy elected President of USA. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs was an unsuccessful action where the CIA-trained Cuban exiles were to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Fidel Castro. The main invasion took place at a beach named Playa Girón, located at the mouth of the bay. The invasion is named after the Bay of Pigs, although that is only a modern translation of the Spanish Bahía de Cochinos. -
Wall
Construction of Berlin Wall begins. The Berlin Wall was the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. However, it was also the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cold War, this was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. After some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime, the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United Sates. The United States considered attacking Cuba via air and sea, and settled on a military "quarantine" of Cuba. -
Tet Offensive
This was a military campaign during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was to utilize the element of surprise and strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam, during a period when no attacks were supposed take place. The operations are referred to as the Tet Offensive because there was a prior agreement to "cease fire" during the Tet festivities, but the Vietnam Congress broke the agreement, and launched an attack campaign. -
END of Soviet Union
End of Soviet Union and the Cold War Ends. Mikhail Gorbachev came to power it happened shorty before midnight on March 11, 1985. The Central Committee announced that Mikhail Gorbachev would sucessed.
