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Kent State
Kent State University was institution for training public school teachers. in 1910. May 4, 1970, when an Ohio Army National Guard unit fired at students during an anti-war protest on campus, killing four and wounding nine. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was lead by Valdimir Lenin by a group called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union. -
Postdam Conference
The conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand and thus helped set the stage for the Cold War that would begin shortly after World War II came to an end. -
Atomic Bomb
On August 6 and 9,American bombers dropped the world’s first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution, led by Chairman Mao Zedong, Second part of the Chinese civil war. -
Iron Curtain
the Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrerected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a decisive altercatoin in the First Indochina war between the French and Vietnamese Communist and nationalist. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Long Telegram
The Long Telegram was Russia's way of seeing how the world works. The article took the information in the two prior reports and made a map for the Cold War. Gorge Kennin -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 where famous acters, singers and such who where brought up for questoining about being a comunist and refused so speak, breaking there rights. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American law in 1948 to help Western Europe. 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
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post world War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Berlin Aircraft
Berlin Airlift begins. In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. For nearly a year, supplies from American planes sustained the over 2 million people in West Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, were put to death in the electric chair on June 19, 1953. Their dual execution marked the dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. -
Korean War
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. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
a series of court days held by the United States, to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. he was accuesed of being a communist -
The Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a meeting among many nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was suppose to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual agreement, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw -
Soviet bomb test
On November 22, 1955, the Soviet Union exploded its first true hydrogen bomb at the Semipalatinsk test site. It had a yield of 1.6 megatons. This began a series of Soviet hydrogen bomb tests culminating on October 23, 1961, with an explosion of about 58 megatons. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolution against Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, -
U2 Incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by russia while taking pictures of sovoit defences, deep into Soviet territory. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in Chicago. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt by US to try and eliminate Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution in Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
He was a Vietnamese politician who was a supporter of the US, he became Vietnamese politician, later becomiung the President of South Vietnam from 1955 untill he was allegedly killed by suicide, Vietnam Radio had announced their deaths by poison. -
Assassination of JFK
the 35th President of the United States was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald firing in ambush from a nearby building -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress voted to pass a bill that President Johnson can take measures believed were necessary to keep and to promote the international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was started in an effort to demoralise the North Vietnamese people and to destroy the government in North Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder was a failed attempt at both. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was an invatoin from Vietcong in the North, about 85,000 people launched a major invatoin throughout South Vietnam. it tooks weeks for the US to gain back controll of the area -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. His death caused major racial outbreaks causing more than 40 deaths and damage in over 100 citys. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was badly wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia lead by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary -
Riots of Democratic convention
The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in Chicago. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon was the former Vice President, defeated by the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Nixon visits China
It was an importnt stratigic move that allowed the American public to view images of China for the first time in over two decades. And good realatoins for years to come. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam and all parties of the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
Fall of Saigon
End of the Vietnam War, Evacuation of all US diplomatic, military and civilian personnel. US lost positoin in Saigon Veitnom -
Reagan elected
Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor. The 49th Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980 -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative also known as "Star Wars' was a plan created by Regan to scare the Soviot Union by useing a missile defense system to destroy any incoming bombs/ missles. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
It was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland to talk about international diplomatic relations and the weopons race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
The Berlin Wall Speech, is a speech delivered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin telling Gorbtrov to tear is down, and succsusfully worked. There was fear from the US that Regan could be killed while standing in the open or fear he would make the Soviots mad. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Succsesfully destroyed in 1991
