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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The last meeting held by The "Big Three" discussing Germany's economy and "unconditional surrender" for japan -
Atomic Bomb(Hiroshima/Nagasaki)
the Atomic bomb on japan lead to an arms race of atomic bombs -
Long Telegram
Stalin was moving his troops around eastern Europe and acting as an enemy, Goerge F. Kennan proposed to have a "long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russia". -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was between central and eastern Europe and Russia did that to hide from all west contact -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress, were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. -
Molotov Plan
The soviets version of the Marshall plan. it provides aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist uprising. The Marshall Plan was to give aid to western Europe. -
Marshall Plan
was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
Stalin ordered all land access into west berlin to be sealed off to force the western allies out of west Berlin -
Nato
The United States and Canada joined with 10 other European nations formed a military alliance - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -
First Soviet bomb test
RDS-1. RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test was internally code-named First Lightningband was code-named by the Americans as Joe 1. The design was very similar to the first US "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, using a TNT/hexogen implosion lens design. -
Alger Hiss case
Whittaker Chambers, a former U.S. Communist Party member, produced evidence indicating that he and Hiss had been involved in espionage. A federal grand jury indicted Hiss on two counts of perjury. After a mistrial due to a hung jury, Hiss was tried a second time, and, in January 1950, he was found guilty and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years. -
Korean War
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. He was a U.S. citizen and electrical engineer. In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953.
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Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon dubbed his visit "the week that changed the world" Nixon's arrival in Beijing ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two was to normalize their relationship Nixon visited China to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. -
Reagan elected
Soon after taking office as president, Reagan began implementing sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending. 40th president of the United States (1981–89) -
SDI announced
When Reagan first announced SDI on March 23, 1983, he called upon the U.S. scientists to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.” A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers to deflect all nuclear weapons -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
the president’s wanted to bring the nuclear arms race under control. For Gorbachev, the meeting was to obtain better relations with the United States Six agreements were reached, ranging from cultural and scientific exchanges to environmental issues. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Reagans speech was to challenge Gorbachev to tear down the wall, to give freedom to berlin -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, at midnight 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 a celebration
