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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was from 8 March 1917 – 16 June 1923 and was a time of political and social Revolution across Russia and was started by the retraction of monarchy and it ended with the establishment of the Soviet Union by the Bolsheviks which caused an end to the civil war in Russia and started a new era of communism because of the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was from 17 July to 2 August 1945 and was held in Cecilienhof and was a meeting between Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman which discussed how to decide how to administer Germany. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Americans dropped two Atomic bombs, one on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and one on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, to end the war with Japan. And the Americans used the fact that they had Atomic Bombs as leverage against Russia. -
The long Telagram add new date
George Kennan, the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sent a telegram to the Department of State in the U.S. stating his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a wall between eastern and western Germany which split the communist part of Germany and the non-communist part of Germany. The term Iron Curtain symbolized the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself from contact with the West and its allied states. -
The Molotov plan
The Molotov Plan was the Soviet's plan to only rebuild and aid destroyed cities allied with Russia. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Truman established the Truman Doctrine which stated the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from Communism, because Trumen was afriad of the spreading of communism especially in Germany. The two countries Trumen asked congress money -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the United States Plan to stop the spread of communism in countries destroyed in WW2 by providing military aid, Money, food, and medical supplies. -
NATO
NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. And its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communism taking control of their nations. -
Berlin Airlift
In response to the blockade set up by Russia, the United States and Great Britain orchestrated the Berlin Airlift which was used to resupply eastern Germany day and night with food, coal, and medical supplies. -
Berlin Blockade
Germany was divided into four sections west was Russia and north was the U.S., Britain, and France. Stalin took his west side of Germany and stripped it of materials so Russia could use them, and later built the blockade in Germany to keep people from going to the north which was non-communist and to stop the shipments of goods to eastern Germany and to shut off the power of eastern Germany to try to make the people of eastern Germany sway towards communism. -
The First Soviet Union Bomb Test change date
The Soviet Union exploded its own Soviet Union Bomb, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information and were later executed in 1953. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution, led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China, on 1 October 1949. -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss is convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II and is sentenced to four years in jail where he voiced he was innocent continued and this after his time in jail -
The Hollywood Ten
The 10 were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. And they were all convicted of being Communist even though so may not have been. -
The Korean War
It was a war between the Republic side of South Korea, and the democratic side of North Korea and resulted in 2.5 million dead. And in the war, North Korea was given supplies and advised from Russia. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee who investigated the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy who made accusations on people who were supposed communists -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
October 1956 Hungarian Rebels won the first phase of the Hungarian Revolution, and Imre Nagy became premier, agreeing to establish a multiparty system. On November 1, 1956, Imre declared Hungarian neutral and wanted support from the United Nations but Western powers didn't want to risk a global confrontation. On November 4 the Soviet Union invaded Hungary to stop the revolution and following that Nagy was executed for treason in 1958. -
U2 Incident
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured pilot Francis Powers. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the USSR that the CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years, and The USSR convicted Powers on espionage charges and him to serve 10 years in prison, but after serving less than two years, he was released in exchange for a captured USSR agent in the first-ever U.S.-USSR “spy swap.” -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt by US-sponsored Cuban exiles to reverse Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution with a military invasion of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
Assassination of JFK
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit by Lee Harvey Oswald who was later arrested. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends. The Soviet Union’s invasion successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc though. -
Nixon Visits China
President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks with their leader -
Reagan elected
On Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter and became the 40th President of the United States. -
SDI announced
Regan announced "I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The first meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, held to discuss the Cold War-era arms race, primarily the possibility of reducing the number of nuclear weapons. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
The ‘Tear down this wall’ speech was said by the president of that time Ronald Regan who in his speech addressed that the Berlin wall needed to be turned down. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain where civilians of north and south Germany took down the Berlin wall because it was the end of the Cold war.
