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Iron Curtain
This was a boundary that seperated Europe into two. It was also a barrier to protect the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Confrence
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman held a confrence in Potsdam, Germany. At the confrence, they negotiated the end of the war. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. There was an estimated 70,000–126,000 Japanese civilians killed. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide support to other countries fighting communism. This included Turkey and Greece. -
Hollywood 10
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), investigated numerous famous figures of Hollywood to find if any were communists. 10 of those figures refused to testify. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system made by the Soviet Union to help rebuild the countries that were under the Soviet Unions control. Its seen to be the USSR's version of the Marshall Plan, -
Marshall Plan
The goals of the United States was to help countries that were very affected by the war. It also removed trade barriers like the Berlin Wall, rebuild the economy, and prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to stop France, Great Britain and the United States from occupying Berlin. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies's access to railroads, canals etc. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance between North American counties and European countries. This was formed to fight to Soviet Union. -
Soviet bomb test
this was a Soviet project that was top secret. It was developed in Worl War Two, in hopes of making an atomic bomb to fight the U.S. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American government official convicted for concealing his involvment with communism. -
Korean War
It started when North Korea invaded South Korea. the United Nations and the United States aided South Korea. -
Rosenburg trial
This was a trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. They were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. They were later sentenced to death. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Mcarthy was a politition that fed americas fears of communism. He made accusations with little to no evidence. He repetadly told lies to put fear into the american peopl. -
Geneva Conference
This was a confrence to solve the problems that the Korean war mafde in Indochina. The Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People's Republic of China were the contries that negotiated. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was an alliance made between communist countries. They banded together to fight The United States and other democratic countries. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a revolution against a soviet government. The government collapsed, and thousands of people joined militias, to battle the Soviet troops. Soviet communists members were executed or imprisoned. -
U2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. At first, the United States government tried to cover up the plane crash but it was shortly after known by the public. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
This was an armed invasion and overthrow of the Cuban leader Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
This wall divided east and west Berlin. One side was ruled by a democratic society and the other by a communist. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union wanted to store missles on Cuba, but because Cuba is so close to the United states, The United Sytates and the Soviet Union had a 13 day political and military stamdoff. -
The Assassination of Diem
The assassination of Diem, while celebrated by some Vietnamese, It also caused political chaos. This made the United States be more involved with South Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas while riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing 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.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a long attack from 1965 to October 1968 on Vietnamese communists by the United States. The goal of the United States, was to weaken their military. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces the Tet offensive. It made aggressive attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK*
The iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated. This was a devistating loss, but the movement was still sucessful. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, this happened right after after he won the California presidential primaries. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Invasion of Czechoslovakia was an invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. -
Riots of Democratic convention
President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek re-election. -
Election of Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of 4 unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State. They were shot by members of the National Guard. -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's visited Chona in 1972. When in China, Nixon negotiated a peaseful relationship between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam -
Fall of Saigon
This was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (also known as the Việt Cộng). The United States tried to evacuate everyone they could, but couldn't get everyone. -
Reagan elected
American politician and actor who served was the the 40th President of the United States. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a missile defense system to protect the United States from nuclear weapons. This system was announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference was meeting in Geneva Switzerland. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev attended. They discussed international relations between The Soviet Union and the US. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
This was a speech by President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin telling the leader of the Soviet Union, to take down the Berlin Wall -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The last step of the end of the Cold War. The Berlin Wall finally fell, making Berlin united again
