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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution lasted March 8, 1917, to November 7, 1917. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference took place from July 17–August 2, 1945, between the three leaders of Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Winston Chruchhill, Andrew Truman, and Joesph Stalin met to discuss the terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic bomb- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
On August 6th, 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, then three days later the US dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bomb killed an estitmated 120,000 instantly. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a political, military and ideological barrier that the Soviet Union put around themselves to seperate themselves from noncommusnists. -
Truman Doctrine
On March 12, 1947, Harry S. Truman put his beliefs in a doctrine where he declared the US wpuld give military, political anmd economical support to any country who is under attack or influence of communists. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system that the Soviet Union created to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically connected to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood refused to answer questions. Those 10 were arrested for in content of Congress, they were also blacklisted and some even left the country. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union decided to cut off Berlin from the rest of the world, the Soviets cut their food supply, their railroads, their power, and any other supplies they needed, it took place from June 24th,1948 to May 12th, 1949. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan took place from April 1948-December 1951, was the United States giving over 12 billion to Western Europe countries to rebuild their economy after World War II ended. -
NATO
NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that was an international alliance between 29 countries including North America and Europe, the treaty was signed on April 4th, 1949. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviets had blocked off West Berlin so they could not succeed. The end of the Berlin Blockade ended with the United States airlifting supplies. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was a former U.S. State Department official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union and was convicted in January 1950. -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenbergs were arrested because the U.S had suspicions they were giving nuclear bomb plans to Russia and they were convicted and sentenced them to death in the electric chair. -
Korean War
The Korean War lasted from 1950- 1953 and it was a war between North and South Korea. North Korea was a communist country and wanted to take North Korea over. They ended up spliting at the 38th parallel. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
In November of 1953, 12,000 French paratroopers descended into the valley of Dien Bien Phu in Northwest Vietnam. Their mission was to draw Vietnam into a final decisive battle to end the war. -
Geneva Conference
From April 26 – July 20, 1954, the Geneva Confernece took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War between several nations. -
Army- McCarthy hearings
McCarthy heariengs took place from April-June 1954 and they were a series of investagations to investigate conflicting accusations between the Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the collective defense treaty signed between Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarians did a nationwide revolt that was against the communist regime and it lasted from the 23rd of October until 10th of November 1956. -
U2 Incident
The U2 incident was an incident was where a CIA agent got shot down by a Soviet air missile. Francis Gary Powers had been on a top-secret mission: to fly over and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
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 who had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well: The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S had hired Cuban refugees to enter Cuba and overthrow the new leader Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro had come out and said he aligned with the Soviet Union and he had been hiding and keeping their missiles. The United States had failed this attack. -
Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War the Berlin wall was thrown up overnight. The wall was built to split up Democratic Werst Germany and Communist East Germany. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of South Vietnam and the was arrested and assassinated by the CIA. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX, John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was the 35th president of the United States. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 7, 1964, 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. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S.Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968 -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was a American clergyman and civil rights leader who was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th presidential election where the Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China was an important overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
All warring parties in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon 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. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan was the 49th republican elected president. -
SDI announced
Ronald Reagan announcer the Strategic Defense Initiative was a defense plan; Star Wars. The Star Wars plan was to develop lasers to destroy incoming missiles. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
After eight years the United States and the Soviet Union had a summit. This conference had no major arguments but it sparked a long and sincere friendship. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Ronald Reagan gave a speech in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to tear down the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961 -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
At midnight the East Germany communist leader gave a speech saying their party and the West Germany party has come to an agreement and the wall was to be torn down.
