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Potsdam Conference
A significant event where the three Heads of Government,(USSR, USA, UK), meet and discuss what to do about splitting Germany equally. This is where we decide our plan would be unconditional surrender in Japan known as the Potsdam agreement. -
Atomic Bombs
The first use of nuclear weapons on Japan to end WWII. This was significant because it ushered in a new style of warfare. -
Long Telegram
A telegram document was written by George Kennan to explain to Ameria how we can keep Russia contained and on good terms with them. -
Iron Curtain Speech
A political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas one side being symbolic of the free and the other of the Soviet Unions' rain of prison. -
Truman Doctrine
A doctrine detailing how the United States would provide financial, military, and political assistance to all democratic nations under threat of being communist. -
Molotov Plan
In order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union -
Marshall Plan
An initiative passed for foreign aid to Western Europe. $13 billion is transferred from the United States to Western Europe to help their economies after the end of WWII. -
Hollywood 10
The first systematic Hollywood blacklist, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of congress regarding questions of possible communist affiliation. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States sends planes into Berlin to airlift in food, coal, and other useful resources. One plane fleet nicknamed the candy bomber which dropped candy to inspire hope in children. -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first crises during the Cold War Era. The Soviet Union and Germany block off the railroad, road, and canal access to Berlin leaving the people starving and freezing to death. -
Alger Hiss case
American Official was accused of having spied for the Soviet Union. He was later deemed guilty. -
NATO
Collective defense of the European unions uniting together during the Cold War to defeat the Soviet Union and Germany. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). -
First Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union gets nuclear weapons before America anticipates meaning there is a spy working within the US Manhattan Project. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
Mao Zedong starts a conflict with (CCP) Chinese Communist Party resulting in the proclamation of the Peoples Republic of China. -
Korean War
North Korea is being supported by China and the Soviet Union while South Korea is being supported by the United States and the UN. In the end, the wars comes up with a truce line that still holds today. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were the first American citizens convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Providing top-secret information on radar, sonar, jet propulsion, and nuclear weapon designs. -
Korean Armistice
An agreement was signed (armistice) designed to keep the hostilities down until a final peaceful settlement can be reached. Signed by USA representative William Harrison Jr.and North Korean representative Nam ll and Chinese representative Peng Tah-haui -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Signaled the end of the French reign in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva -
Army McCarthy Hearings
A series of hearings investigating the presence of communists in the United States. -
Hungarian Revolution
A countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government of the Hungarian Peoples Republic. The first major nationalist challenge to the Soviet Union's control. -
U2 incident
An American spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union. Pilot 'Francis Gary Powers' was captured by the Soviet Union. American survivance equipment was found by the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
A CIA-financed and trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro but the attack ends in failure -
Berlin Wall
A concrete barrier that physically divided East and West Germany accompanied by beds of nails, guard towers, and beds of nails -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, 13 day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy the 35th president of the United States was assassinated in Dallas Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Authorization of President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
