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Russian Revolution
The Bolsheviks wanted a new work wages and they wanted Sir Nicholas the 2nd to be dethroned and the royal family gone. The leaders of the revolution were Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference , The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. They got together to decide how to administer the defeated the Nazi Germany. -
The Atomic Bombing - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In the final stages of WW2. The Japanese got 2 nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki it lated only for two whole days until japan agreed to the U.S. terms. -
The Iron Curtain
At the end of WW2 in 1945. The Soviet Union wanted to put an boundary diving Germany. The terms symbolizes the efforts from the Soviet Union. and the Iron Cutain fell at the end of the cold war in 1991. -
Hollywood 10
In October 1947 the Hollywood 10 film idustry publicly denouced the tactics empolyed by the House Un-American Activies Committe(HUAC). The Hollywood 10 got a arrested for Obstruction Of Juntice -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system that the Soviet Union created to provide aid to rebuild the coutries in the Eastern Europe. It was the USSR's own version of the Marshall Plan. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an American Foreign Policy Created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan is an European Recovery Program wanted to send aid to the Western Europe. The United States gave over 13 billion and nearly 140 billion in current dollar value. -
Berlin Blockade
After WW2 germany was divied between the Allies and the Soviet Union into East and West Germany. The United States, United Kingdom, and France Controlled western section of Germany. and The Sovitet Union controlled the eastern section of Germany. -
The Berlin Airlift
The U.S. And the Allies come up with a plan to deliver supplies to West Berlin. They Dropped the supplies from planes . -
Alger Hiss Case
Hiss was a American government official is accused of being a Soviet spy in the 1948 and was convicted of perjury in connection with charge in 1950. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Orangization is an intergovernmental military alliance. The North American and European states based on the North Atlanic Treaty. -
The Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea INVADED South Korea. The U.S. sent aid to South Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg were United States citizens, but the Rosenbergs were also Soviet spys and was executed on june 19, 1953. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union had its first Nuclear air-dropped bomb test . -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The climactic cofrontation of the First Indochina War between the Freanch Union's. The French Far East Expeditionary Corps and The Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
The Army-McCarthy Hearings
The McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Invetigations to investigate Conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Josesph McCarthy. -
The Geneva Conference
The Conference was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The intended to settle outstanding issuse resunting from korean war and the First Indochina War. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mututual Assistance. This was created not long after United States crerated NATO with our Allies. -
Hungarian Revolution
This was a nationwide revoltion against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies,lasting from October 23, 1956 - November 10, 1956. -
U2 Incident
In the 1960s the U2 Incident happened during the Cold War and during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Sovet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invation of cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)- sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961-1989. constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was also known as the October Crisis. It a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile depolyment in Italy and Turkey with consequest Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup D'etat led by Duoung Van Minh. -
Assination of JFK
JFK was in Dallas, Texas preparing for the next presitantial campaign, but JFK had not formally announcd his candidacy. JFK was confident at his chances for re-elecution. -
Tokin Gulf Revsolution
The Gulf of Tokin Resolution that Congress passed, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed was to necessary to retaliate and to promote the mainenance of internaioal peace and security in Southeast Asia. -
The Operastion Rolling Thunder
The Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. the 2nd Air Division. -
The Tet Offienive
This was on of the largest miliarary campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against South Vietnamese Army. -
The Assassination of MLK
MLK was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.Dr.King was rushed to St. Joesph's Hospital. at 7:05 pm he was pronouced dead. -
The Assassintion of RFK
The Assassintion of RFK was suppose to be killed on June 5, 1968. but they want the date to be significant it was the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. -
The Invasion of Czecholovakia
The Invasion of Cecholovakia was known as Operation Danube was a Joint invasion of Czecholovakia by five Warsaw Pact nation on the night of the 20th. -
Riots of Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention was held in Chicago, tens of thousads Vietnam War Protesters battle the police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart. -
Election of Nixon
This was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. Nixton a former Vice President for the United States. -
The Kent State
Unarmed collage student by members of the Ohio Natioal Guard during the protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State. Only 4 sstudents were killed, -
Nixon Visits China
When Nixon went to visit China it was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administrion's rapprochement between the United States and China. -
The Ceasefire In Vietnam
Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombing in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger the National Security Affairs. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigaon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of the South Vietnam from the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Reagan was an American politican and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. -
SDI annouced
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear wepons. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The leaders from United States and Soviet Union met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland. Reagan and Gorbachev had talked in Privite and built up a friendship but left with no arrangement. -
Tear Down This Wall Speech
Reagan was calling for the leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin wall that was been standing since 1961 that divied West and East Berlin. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for Berlin's Communist Party annouced a change in his city's relations with the west. Starting midnight that day.
