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Russian Revolution
After a long period of poverty among the common people, Vladimir Lennon spread the idea for Communism. The Russian people were starving and desperate for any way to just provide food on the table. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the dividing line between capitalist and communist countries in Europe. Presidents of the United States saw this as what countries need to be contained, to keep communism from spreading. -
Potsdam Conference
The meeting between the leaders of the United States, England, and Russia, before the end of World War II. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin disused what could happen after the war was over. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
For the first time in History, the United states used Nuclear Weapons on a civilian or human target. The bomb was dropped on two highly populated Japanese cities, which killed near 80,000 civilians. -
Truman Docterine
In an attempt to contain communism, President Truman told the world that the United States would provide military, economical, and even political help to any country opposing communism. -
Molotov Plan
In response to the Truman Doctrine, the Soviet Union stated that they would help rebuild and provide aid to any country that would Aline with their ethical and political values. -
Hollywood 10
As fear swept across the United States, actors known as the Hollywood Ten, were set on trial because they were believed to be communist. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshal Plan stated that they would provide aid to any country that had been devastated in World War II, in order to rebuild Europe and it's economy. -
Berlin Blockade
To keep the United States and other European countries like France, the Soviet Union built a wall that separated the Eastern and Western parts of Berlin. The West side became capitalist and thrived to rebuild their desolate city. The East became communist and starved due to the cruelty of the Soviet Union. -
Berlin Airlift
When the Berlin Wall was set in place, the Russians were so brutal to the Germans on the East Side, to the point where most of them starved. To counteract this without passing the Berlin Blockade, the United States had planes filled with food, water, supplies, and even candy to drop to the starving civilians. -
NATO
Known as the 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization', NATO is an alliance between the countries in the Northern Hemisphere that were opposed to communism and wanted to keep peace among the other countries. -
Soviet Bomb Test
For the first time in history, the United States learns that the technology of the Soviet Union is almost as modern as their own. -
Alger Hiss
The State Department Official, was convicted because his involvement with Spies from the Soviet Union before, and during World War II. -
Korean War
A major conflict that occurred between the Northern and Southern part of Korea. Marked the first military action of the Cold War. -
Rosenburg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convinced and given a death sentence for espionage and sharing military secrets involving nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. -
Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the turning point for the North Vietnamese, in which they bombarded a French outpost by using strategic positioning. -
Army–McCarthy Hearings
As a result for his offensive, improper, and misleading outbursts, Joseph McCarthy, a Senator from Wisconsin, was on trial to discredit his accusations against members of the Army being communist. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was the meeting between many of the world powers. In the meeting they mainly disused many solutions of how to resolve the conflicts in Asia. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the Communist version of NATO, which included the Soviet Union, and other Eastern European countries. -
Hungarian Revolution
Many Hungarians and even citizens of other countries revolted against the Soviet ruled politics that covered the leadership of Hungary. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident was a controversial event in the Cold War in which an American U2 Spy Plane was shot down in Soviet Territory. -
Bay of Pigs
An FBI funded war plan, The Bay of Pigs was the war between Cuban rebels that were funded and trained by the FBI to try to overthrow Fidel Castro, which would undermine the communist movement. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was an eleven foot barrier that was built by the Russians down the middle of the city of Berlin, which separated the communist east section and the capitalist west section. -
Cuban Missile Crissis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was an intense negotiation that decided whether the United States would declare war on the Soviet Union for bringing a ship full of Nuclear weapons to Cuba, just off the coast of Florida. -
Diem Assasination
In Ho Chi Mihn City, Ngo Diem and his younger brother were arrested by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. After an agreement to being given a safe exile, Diem and his younger brother were executed by officers. -
JFK Assasination
On the 22nd of November, while John F. Kennedy was campaigning through Dallas Texas, in an attempt to unite Americans, and He was shot in the head next to his wife. Lee Harvey Oswald was suspected for the assassination, although the facts are still unclear. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 7th, Congress gave Lyndon B. Johnson the power to make any decision or action he saw fit to win the war in South East Asia. This was also known as 'The Blank Check', because there was essentially no limit to what he could do. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the war strategy that entailed large amounts of bombing runs on civilian and military targets to force submission. Such missions were run in Vietnam from the mid 1965 all the way through 1968. -
TET Offensive
During the Vietnamese holiday, it was agreed that the United States would stop fighting on their religious and sacred holidays. However, the Vietnamese took this advantage and attacked South Vietnam's largest cites. -
MLK Assasination
In Memphis Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the SCLC, was shot and killed. King's fight against segregation in a non-violent fashion was unparalleled; and as a result of his murder, outrage across the country was spread. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many riots both violent and non-violent broke out in major cities around the country. -
RFK Assasination
In Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in the Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy was a adamant civil rights worker and was also a presidential candidate. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On the twentieth of August, the Warsaw Pact invaded the country of Czechoslovakia. Originally known as 'Operation Danube', two hundred fifty thousand troops invaded while the civilians were vulnerable. -
Nixon is Elected
After Lyndon B. Johnson ended his time in office, the country turned to the Republican, Richard M. Nixon. Nixon had to find a logical way to end the war in Vietnam, and made that one of his main priorities. -
Kent State
During a tense time in the war in Vietnam, many protests at Kent state occurred. Sources say some protesters threw rocks at the National Guard, and the soldiers retaliated by firing on the protesters. Four students were killed. -
Nixon Visits China
For the first time ever, the President of the United states was allowed into a communist nation as a visitor. Nixon and the Chinese leader to discuss diplomacy. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Finally, in 1973, a ceasefire was reached between the South Vietnamese and the North. Although it was agreed no fighting would commence, the South would retake minor villages from the Communists. As a result they would retaliate, and the cycle of fighting would unofficially continue. -
Fall of Saigon
The "Peoples Army of Vietnam", after being supplied with military grade weapons, attacked the capitol of South Vietnam, and claimed it Communist. As a result, the United States commenced the largest Helicopter Evacuation in history. -
Reagan gets elected
After Jimmy Carter's presidency, the United States elected a new president, who's main agenda including finishing the fight against communism and the Soviet Union. -
SDI Announced
In an attempt to make the Soviet Union believe that we were technologically more advanced and militarily superior to them, Reagan announced that w had created the Strategic Defense Initiative. In reality, the SDI was a fictional system of satellites and lasers that could destroy oncoming nuclear attacks mid-air. -
Geneva Convention with Gorbechev
For the first time in decades, the President of the United States met with the leader of the Soviet Union, in a 'sit down' style to discus diplomacy and to decrease the amount of nuclear missiles within each country. Although no agreement was reached, it helped create a less hostile form of negotiations between the two countries. -
"Tear Down This Wall"
Midway through the 1980's, Reagan publicly told the leader of the Soviet Union, to tear down the Berlin Wall, which had been keeping poor communist citizens captive on the east side of the wall for decades. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
After the constant push and influence from Reagan onto Gorbachev and the countries surrounding Germany, The Berlin Wall was finally torn down.
