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Russian Revolution
A couple of unrests in Russia in 1917 which destroyed the Tsarist totalitarianism and prompted the ascent of the Soviet Union. Amid the insurgency, the Bolsheviks, who were driven by liberal progressive Vladimir Lenin seized control and pulverized the convention of csarist run the show. The Bolsheviks would later turn into the Socialist Party of the Soviet Union. Date:Mar 8, 1917-Nov 7, 1917 -
Potsdam Conference
The last meeting of WW2 between the "Big Three" which consisted of American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The talks mainly centered on postwar Europe. Although the leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations. Date: July 17th, 1945-August 2, 1945 -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Amid the last phase of World War II, the United States dropped atomic weapons on the Japanese urban areas of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The two bombs by and large executed no less than 130,000 Japanese individuals. This instrument of death was utilized to indicate Japan our animal power and assurance to compel their surrender. After the second nuclear bomb dropped Japan's Emperor Hirohito reported his nation's unqualified surrender. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the limit isolating Europe into two separate zones from the finish of World War II in 1945 until the point when the finish of the Cold War in 1991.The Iron Blind was set by the Soviet Union to piece itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non controlled zones. Isolate worldwide financial and military unions were created on each side of the Iron Blind. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the framework made by the Soviet Union in 1947 keeping in mind the end goal to give help to remake the nations in Eastern Europe that were politically and financially adjusted to the Soviet Union. This was the USSR's rendition of the Marshall Plan which for political reasons Eastern European nations couldn't escape without leaving the Soviet range of authority. The Molotov design was emblematic of the Soviet Union's refusal to acknowledge help. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American outside strategy made to counter Soviet geopolitical development amid the Cold War. It was presented by President Harry S. Truman to Congress in would like to contain Soviet impacts over Europe. The Truman Doctrine suggested American help for different countries debilitated by Soviet socialism. It turned into the establishment of American outside strategy which later prompted the development of NATO. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan, otherwise called the European Recovery Program, directed over $13 billion to fund the monetary recuperation of Europe in the vicinity of 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan effectively started financial recuperation, meeting its goal of reestablishing the certainty of the European individuals in the monetary fate of their own nations and of Europe all in all. The Soviet Union saw the Marshall Plan as an endeavor to meddle in personal affairs. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an endeavor in 1948 by the Soviet Union to restrict the capacity of France, Great Britain and the United States to go to their parts of Berlin, which lay inside Russian-possessed East Germany. Coming only three years after the finish of World War II, the bar was the main real conflict of the Cold War and foreshadowed future clash over the city of Berlin. Date: Jun 24, 1948- may 12, 1949 -
Berlin Airlift
In June 1948, the Russians– who needed Berlin for themselves– shut all interstates, railways and waterways from western-possessed Germany into western-involved Berlin. Rather than withdrawing from West Berlin, nonetheless, the U.S. what's more, its partners chose to supply their segments of the city from the air. This exertion, known as the "Berlin Airlift," went on for over a year and conveyed more than 2.3 million tons of load into West Berlin. Date: June 24, 1948-May 12, 1949 -
Alger Hiss case
State Department official Alger Hiss was indicted having lied himself concerning declaration about his charged contribution in a Soviet government operative ring earlier and amid World War II. This case started when Whittaker Chambers affirmed against Hiss saying he was a comrade in the 30's and 40's and that amid his work in the Department of State, Hiss had passed top mystery reports to him. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was made in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and a few Western European countries to give aggregate security against the Soviet Union. From its establishing, NATO's main role was to bind together and fortify the Western Allies' military reaction to a conceivable attack of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact partners. -
Soviet bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR effectively explodes its first nuclear bomb, code name "First Lightning". The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 had provoked Joseph Stalin to arrange the advancement of atomic weapons inside five years. Atomic physicist Igor Kurchatov was accused of driving this task. -
Hollywood Ten
In October 1947, 10 individuals from the Hollywood film industry openly condemned the strategies utilized by the House Un-American Exercises Board of trustees , an investigative advisory group of the U.S. Place of Delegates, amid its test of affirmed comrade impact in the American film business. These conspicuous screenwriters and executives, who wound up plainly known as the Hollywood Ten, got imprison sentences and were restricted from working for the significant Hollywood studios. -
Korean War
The Korean War started on June 25, 1950, when about 75,000 officers from the North Korean Individuals' Armed force poured over the 38th parallel, the limit between the Soviet-supported Law based Individuals' Republic of Korea toward the north and the expert Western Republic of Korea toward the south. This intrusion was the primary military activity of the Cold War. By July, American powers came to help in the interest of South Korea. Following 3 years of exceptional battle it ended in stalemate. -
Rosenburg trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg started in New York when they were indicted of the allegation of pitching atomic mysteries to the Russians. Julius Rosenberg was an individual from the American Comrade Gathering and was let go from his administration work amid the Red Unnerve. As per a partner named David Greenglass, Julius had requested that he pass very private guidelines on making nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. The case went almost a month until they were condemned to death. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the decisive engagement in the first Indochina War. The battle was fought between the French and the Vietminh.The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina. Date: March 13th, 1954-May 7th, 1954 -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Representative Joseph McCarthy starts hearings researching the Unified States Armed force, which he accuses of being "delicate" on socialism. Representative McCarthy charged that there were more than 200 "known communists" in the Division of State. Along these lines started his confounding ascent to distinction as the most popular and dreaded socialist seeker in the Unified States. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. The conference marked a turning point in the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a settlement building up the Warsaw Agreement, a shared protection association that put the Soviets in summon of the military of the part states. The Soviet Union shaped this collusion as an offset toward the North Atlantic Arrangement Association. It came to be viewed as a significant potential battle ready danger, as an indication of Comrade predominance, and an unmistakable adversary to American private enterprise. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. Vicious street fighting broke out, but the Soviets’ great power ensured victory. Date Oct 23, 1956- Nov 10, 1956 -
U2 Incident
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. However Powers was released after 2 years in prison due to the first ever "spy swap" between Powers and a captured Soviet agent. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drives his guerilla army into Havana and overthrows General Fulgencio Batista, the nation’s American-backed president. in April 1961, the CIA launched what its leaders believed would be the definitive strike: a full-scale invasion of Cuba by 1,400 American-trained Cubans. The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. April 17, 1961- April 19, 1961 -
Berlin Wall
The official purpose of the Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany. It was a tangible symbol of the suppression of human rights by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. Up until the death of Ngo Ding the United States had been ‘advising the government of South Vietnam in its war against the Viet Cong. American casualties were beginning to mount, and images of the dead were being broadcast on stateside network television.In the wake of the assassination, American policy toward the war in Vietnam changed dramatically. -
Assassination of JFK
the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. He was 46. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam. It was passed on August 7, 1964, by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the codename for an American bombing campaign during the Vietnam War. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnamese territory and represented a major expansion of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Mar 3, 1965- Nov 1, 1968 -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. However U.S. and South Vietnamese forces were able to hold them off the massive offensive shocked the American public and eroded support for the war effort. Dates: Jan 30,1968 – Sep 23, 1968 -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of impassioned speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation and achieve significant civil-rights advances for African Americans. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning. -
Assassination of RFK
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized. Assailed by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan firing a .22 pistol. Kennedy was shot multiple times, and five others were wounded by gunfire. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. The liberal reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek were repealed and “normalization” began under his successor Gustav Husak. -
Riots of Democratic convention
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. The American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered. -
Election of Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Although Nixon and Humphrey each gained about 43 percent of the popular vote, the distribution of Nixon’s nearly 32 million votes gave him a clear majority in the electoral college. Richard Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore law and order to the nation's cities and provide new leadership in the Vietnam War. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State shootings were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia. In its immediate aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country. -
Nixon visits China
Arriving in Beijing, the president announced that his breakthrough visit to China is “The week that changed the world.” In meeting with Nixon, Prime Minister Zhou Enlai urged early peace in Vietnam. This was an important event because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. Nixon's visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. South Vietnamese forces continued to take back villages occupied by communists in the two days before the cease-fire deadline and the communists tried to capture additional territory. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. -
Fall of Saigon
The outskirts of Saigon were reached by the North Vietnamese Army in late April. The United States knew that their token presence in the city would quickly become unwelcome, and the remaining Americans were evacuated by helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. A day later the North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon with little resistance. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan helped redefine the purpose of government and pressured the Soviet Union to end the Cold War. He cut taxes, increased defense spending, negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. Six agreements were reached, ranging from cultural and scientific exchanges to environmental issues. Both Reagan and Gorbachev, however, expressed satisfaction with the summit. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
in a dramatic speech set against the backdrop of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, President Ronald Reagan delivered a challenge to Soviet leader Mikahil Gorbachev: "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."
This speech marked Reagan's most prominent call for the reunification of East and West Berlin. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in celebrations. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945.
