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1st Geneva Conference
The First Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in field held in 1864. The first of four Geneva Conventions. Defines the "basis on which the rules of international law for the protection of the victims of armed conflicts." -
Russian Revolution
A pair of revolutions meant to dismantle the Tsarist Autocrasy which lead to the rise of the Soviet Union -
Postdam Conference
A conference between Harry Truman, Winston Chuchill, and Joseph Stalin about what the plan is to do with Germany. -
Iron Curtain
Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill he belittled the Soviet Union policies in Europe dividing it into two seperate sections from end of WW2 and the end of the Cold War -
The Truman Doctrine
A foreign policy made to counter the geopolitical spread during the Cold War by the Soviet Union. Truman announced this on March 12, 1947 also stating further development in 1948 to cut off Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey -
Hollywood 10
The House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee made up of the House of Representatives. During communist influence in the motion picture business. These screenwriters and directors became known as The Hollywood 10, they were later banned from working in major studios and recieved jail time, because they denied to answer questions asked to them. -
The Molotov Plan
Soviet Union created system where enabled aid and rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were economically and politically in alliance with the Soviet Union -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe by giving them 12 million dollars in economic support to help re build the economy after the destructive World War Two. (the amount on the war spent then equals to roughly about 120 million dollars now) -
The Berlin Blockade
An attempt made by the Soviet Union to limit the power of Great Britain, France, and the United States to travel to different areas in Berlin which was occupied by East Germany -
Alger Hiss Case
This man was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. His case was going to be forgotten due to the lack of concrete evidence brought forward, Richard Nixon pushed for Alger Hiss to be prosecuted and he was finally convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, governmental military alliances based on the North Atlantic Treaty, which was to provide security from the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviets first test with there Nuclear Bomb, code named the RDS-1 at the Semipalatinsk test site -
Korean War
Began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the main force, they came to aid and teach South Korea how to fight. China and Soviet Union came to aid North Korea. -
Rosenburg Trial
A husband and wife, the Rosenburgs were convicted for passing U.S. bomb information to the Soviet Union. The were sentenced and killed in the electric chair. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The First Indochina War between French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and the Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. Occurred between March-May 1954. -
The Geneva Conference
Conference with with many other countries which took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Their purpose for this was to find a way to settle the major issues in the Korean Peninsula and discuss the possibility of calling a truce in Indochina -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Many series of hearings held by the United States Senates Subcommittee on Investigations about the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy between April 1954- June 1954 -
The Warsaw Pact
This pact was a military and political alliance with the Soviet Union and seven of its satellites sign a treaty on The Warsaw Pact to counterbalance the NATO treaty. To put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the members of the state. -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the government of Hungarian People's Republic and the Soviet-imposed policy lasting until November 10, 1956. First major threat to the Soviet control. -
U2 Incident
A United States spy plane was shot down in the Soviets Airspace, the flyer was captured as well as photos and spy machinery taken/used of the military bases in the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group brigade 2506 on April 17, 1961 -
The Berlin Wall
A barrier dividing Berlin from anything else. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, to completely cut off West Berlin from Eastern Germany and Eastern Berlin until the government officials finally opened in the year of 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Known as the October Crisis, Caribbean Crisis, or The Missile Scare. This was a 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba, along with being televised worldwide, and it was closest that the Cold War came to escalating into a full blown nuclear war -
Assassination of Diem
A brutal murder of the South Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem his powerful adviser and brother, in November 1963. This is the start of a turning point in the world of Vietnam -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, an hour later a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for his murder. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Lyndon Johnson announced on August 4 that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Tonkin Gulf were attacked by N. Vietnamese. Johnson sent two U.S. planes against the attackers and asked congress to pass a resolution in order for him to do this. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
This was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic North Vietnamese from March 2, 1965 all the way until November 2, 1968, which was during the Vietnam War. -
TET Offensive
This was one of the largest military 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 the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was an American Politician from Massachusetts, he served a United States junior Senator from New York from January 1965 until he was assassinated by Shihan in 1968. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was shot and killed in Memphis by a man named James Earl Ray who was a conformed racist and small time criminal, he later confessed to this crime in March. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led the Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia, to crack its reform trends into Prague. The invasion was successful and slowed down the pace of the reform, it brought upon consequences for communism. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
A National Democratic Convention in Chicago, 1968, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle the police in the streets while the Democratic party falls apart over the different stances of the war. -
The Election of Nixon
The United States Presidential election was held on November 5, 1968. The republic nominee won the election over the democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
A shooting occurred on the day of May 4 at Kent State University, this was a shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4. -
Nixon Visits China
President Nixon takes a first step in trying to normalize the relations with the Communist People's Republic of China by traveling the Beijing for a week. It started with a slowly but surely re-established diplomatic relations between communist China and the United States -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The ceasefire went into effect, when the Saigon controlled 75% of South Vietnam's Territory and around 80% of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped by the deliveries of the United States weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid even after the cease-fire was not in affect anymore. -
Fall of Saigon
A capture of Saigon, capitol of the South Vietnam, by the Peoples Army of South Vietnam and National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975 -
Ronald Reagan Elected
The 40th President of the United States from 1981-1989. He cut taxes and increased defense spending, and negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviet Union, which helped bring a quicker end to the Cold War. -
SDI announced (Star Wars)
Strategic Defense Initiative was a missile defense system to defend and protect the United States from attack by the strategic nuclear weapons. The system was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Reagan. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit was a conference held between President Ronald Reagan and the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev to meet and hold talks about international diplomatic relations and the arms race -
"Tear Down This Wall" Speech
A speech given by the U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin, he made this speech calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier that has divided West and East Berlin since 1961 -
Fall of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was town down and opened up by the government in November 1987
