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Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution was from March 8th 1917 to June 16th and was a period of political and social revolution across the country, which started the soviet union. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held in the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm in Potsdam, Germany from July 17th to August 2nd 1945. the conference was held to decide how to administer Germany. -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945 an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. -
Long Telegram
The Long Telegram was sent by George Kennan from the United States Embassy in Moscow to Washington. The telegram was about US inquiries about Soviet behavior, especially when it came to their refusal to join the newly created World Bank and International Monetary Fund. In the telegram he questions Soviet belief and practice and proposed the policy of containment. The telegram was described as long because it is 8000 words long. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a wall that split the east and the west. One side was the Soviet Union while the other side was the allied forces of NATO members. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 to provide financial aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned with the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine offered financial aid to those who are threatened by the Soviet Communism. Also became the foundation for American foreign policy. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave money to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. It operated for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. The main goal was to prevent the spread of communism. The Marshall Plan encouraged an increase in productivity, as well as the adoption of modern business procedures. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade lasted from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949. It was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which was in Russian occupied East Germany. The blockade was the first major clash of the Cold War and foreshadowed future conflict over the city of Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
From 26 June 1948 – 30 September 1949 the Russians closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. With doing this the Russians believed that the U.S. would retreat. Instead or retreating the U.S. delivered by air. This lasted for more then a year. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in 1948, but statutes of limitations had expired for espionage. He was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before the trial he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. NATO constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's Headquarters are located in Evert, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium. -
Soviet Bomb Test
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It shocked the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to be able to make nuclear weapon so soon. Previously, the United States had used two atomic bombs on Japan to cause them to surrender during World War II. The impact that the possession of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union had upon the United States was that it caused Americans to question their own safety. -
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. The revolution began in 1946 after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49). In China, the revolutionary period is known as the War of Liberation. -
Korean War
The Korean War in North Korean was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the support of the United Nations, principally from the United States). The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Rosenburg Trial
Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. He was 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. Their trial remains controversial today. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Already famous for his aggressive interrogations of suspected Communists, Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy earned more notoriety via the televised 1954 hearings. McCarthy had turned his investigations to army security, but the army in turn charged him with using improper influence to win preferential treatment for a former staff member. When the senator tried to emphasize army lawyer Joseph Welch’s Communist ties, Welch delivered his famous “Have you no sense of decency?” -
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
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Leaderless at the beginning, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the Red Army drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the End of World War II in Europe. -
U-2 Incident
U-2 Incident, confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista. in 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. The invaders badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops, and they surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16, 1962 – October 28, 1962 The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War. In Russia, it is known as the Caribbean Crisis. Cuba calls it the October Crisis. It was a proxy conflict around Cuba It began when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba in 1962. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past the Texas School Book Depository at Dealey Plaza with crowds lining the streets—when shots rang out. -
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. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
Nixon visits China
On July 15, 1971, the President shocked the world by announcing on live television that he would visit the PRC the following year. The week-long visit, from February 21 to 28, 1972, allowed the American public to view images of China for the first time in over two decades. -
Reagan elected
The election was held on November 4, 1980. Ronald Reagan and running mate George H. W. -
SDI announced
Announcement. On 23 March 1983, Reagan announced SDI in a nationally televised speech, stating "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 Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood just 100 yards away from the concrete barrier dividing East and West Berlin and uttered some of the most unforgettable words of his presidency: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” -
Berlin Wall
barrier in West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. Berlin Wall was first built on the night of August 12–13, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer By the 1980s that system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles through Berlin, dividing the city and extended 75 miles around West Berlin, separating it from the rest of East Germany. -
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. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards.
