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Russian Revolution
March 18, 1917 - November 7, 1917. The Russian Revolution was a set of rebellions which took place in Russia, demolishing the Tsarist autocracy, and lead to the increasing success of the Soviet Union. These revolutions impacted globally, and had international consequences, influencing conflicts over communism and isolation, between the Soviet Union and the United States, initially firing the Cold War. -
Postdam Conference
The conference discussed postwar Europe and 'unconditional surrender' or Japan. President Truman and Winston Churchill entered conflict when tensions arose about democratic policies. -
Atomic Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
At the command of President Harry S. Truman during the resolution stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain Speech was provided by former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill in which he brought upon the actions formally condemning the Soviet Union policies in Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy and series of documents established by Harry Truman in 1947 that was created to oppose the Soviet Union, in an attempt to banish communism stating America will help any country that is threatened by Soviet Communism. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a series of ideas and strategies created by the Soviet Union in effort to reconstruct countries in Eastern Europe. They gave aid to country's that were politically and economically assigned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten, was an event in which ten members of the Hollywood film industry were exposed by HUAC, a research and analysis committee that displayed predicted communist influence in the film industry. The screenwriters and directors, known as the Hollywood 10 were given time in jail and were prevented from working in Hollywood studios again. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a program of redemption and recovery, established by the United States, in order to help Western Europe improve from the affects of World War 2. America had spent approximately $12 billion helping rebuild the Western European Economy. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an act of barricading the Western Allies railways, roads, and canals by the Soviet Union. Therefore, nobody could proceed through sectors of Berlin under Western control on the Eastern side. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a strategy for the Allie powers to separate and settle in Germany at the end of World War Two. It was grouped into occupational zones, Berlin was situated on the inside of Soviet territory eastern Germany. -
NATO
NATO stands for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance based of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. It was established in an effect to detour Soviet expansionism, prohibit any nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence, and increase European political interrogation. -
Soviet Bomb Test
This was the Soviet Union's first nuclear test in the year of 1949, it's code name was RDS-1, and was located in current day Kazakhstan. -
The Alger Hiss Case
The Alger Hiss case began in the year of 1948, when Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss for being a communist in the 1930's and 40's. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a combat and destructive battle, where North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the U.S helped South Korea in an effort to control and prohibit communism, and the Soviet Union aided the North to encourage the expansion of it. -
The Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg Trial, was a legal case in which Julius Rosenberg was taken under arrest and executed with his wife Ethel for “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage". This Meant that they were illegally investigating and spying on the United States in favor for the Soviet Union. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the combat that occurred among the French Union's far east corps and Viet Minh Communist-Nationalist revolutionaries. This conflict resulted in a French defeat and compromises over Indochina's future. -
Army- McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of legal hearings to undergo investigation of senator Joseph McCarthy exposing's of communists in America. He placed blames and guilt on various people with communist tendencies and security risks within the army. -
Geneva Conference
The initial Geneva Conference was located in Switzerland in an attempt to settle foreign issues with the Korean Peninsula and applying effort to restore peace within Indochina. Several countries attended, including the Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, originally known as the Treaty of Friendship, was a defense treaty involving the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet Satellite States located in Europe. This treaty was established in effort by Soviet powers to be able to have control over military forces and NATO. -
Hungarian Revolution
The event in which Hungary was invaded and taken under attack became a nationwide revolt against Hungary's Republic and it's Soviet policies. This invasion was the first significant ultimatum to Soviet control since the USSR blocked the Nazi Germany out of their territory at the end of World War 2. -
The U2 Incident
The U-2 incident, is commonly known for the event in which the American spy plane was shot down by Soviets in the 1960's. It took place during the presidency of Eisenhower and premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. -
The Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion occurred when the U.S. army taught and trained Cuban refugees how to successfully invade Cuba. However; the strategy failed and resulted in a severe American loss and Fidel Castro continued to rule communist Cuba. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barricade among Eastern and Western Berlin, after it was separated into particular divisions.The East was controlled by the Soviet Union and the West by the United States. The wall was constructed by the Soviet Union and served as an iron curtain so citizens were not able to flee to the west. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day combat which ocurred among the United States and the Soviet Union. It involved "American ballistic missile deployment within both Italy and Turkey, and intertwined consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba". This was the event in which the cold war came significantly close to nuclear warfare. -
Assassination of Diem
Diem's intentional death was a turning point in both society and the war in Vietnam. Although, the CIA backed operation was an American success. The U.S was overlooking and carefully viewing the South Vietnam government in its actions and had over 16,000 troops located in South Vietnam during this time period. -
Assasination of JFK
Former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 2016 at 12:30 p.m while traveling with his wife in downtown Dallas. His assassination was completed by Lee Harvey Oswald who was then later killed before given trial. John Kennedy was the fourth president to be assassinated. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that U.S ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, located between North Vietnam and Hainan Dao, had been taken over by the North Vietnamese. Johnson desired for congress to pass a resolution to send planes against the attackers. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was greatly understood for it's aerial bombings opposing North Vietnam. There were four main ideas and goals of the strategy, to boost morale of the Saigon regime, convince North Vietnam to cease aid for communist thrive in the South, demolish North Vietnam transportation, and suspend supplies and people from reaching South Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive is a military crusade which took place during the Vietnam War in the year of 1968. It involved the U.S, South Vietnamese, Army Republic of Vietnam, and their allies opposing Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. Surprise attacks occurred against the military and even civilians all through South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist was murdered on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray was responsible for the death of King, and committed through acts of racism in Memphis TN. Millions of supporters were left saddened and disappointed by the unfortunate death of the peaceful activist. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968 after being the leading candidate for democratic presidential nominee. He was a politician in the U.S as he was a junior senator in New York and a U.S attorney general. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In the year of 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw pacts, in order to invade Czechoslovakia in an effort to prohibit Alexander Dubček's Prague liberalization reforms and recovery programs. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention took place within Chicago between August 26 and August 29. Lyndon Johnson proclaimed, that he would not encourage a renewal election; also the democrats were seeking a new candidate. The year of 1968 was compacted of violence and riots throughout popular and significant cities after the assassination of Robert Kennedy and other solemn events. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential race of 1968 ended in the selection of Richard Nixon. He won over the democratic nominee Huburt Humphre, after the difficult and cruel year of various assassinations and riots. -
Kent State
The Kent State shooting was at the college in Kent, Ohio where college students with the absence of arms were fired at by the Ohio National Guard in 1970. 28 soldiers claimed their responsibility to the crime, concluding in four deaths and leaving nine others wounded, and one in particular, suffering permanent paralysis to the body. -
Nixon Visits China
In 1972, Nixon traveled to China, in order to meet with Mao Zedong in Beijing. The meeting was an important role in the cold war, as it aided with normalizing relations between the United States and China. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, was the detainment of Saigon, which is the capital of South Vietnam, due to the people's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. This was the conclusion and formal resolution to the Vietnam war. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 23 1973, Nixon claimed that there would be a ceasefire in Vietnam, in an attempt to bring a resolution to the longest war in America. Nixon announced nation wide on television that a ceasefire would begin at seven during the evening, and the peace agreement will be formally signed by the U.S, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and Viet Cong that following Saturday. -
Election of Reagan
In 1980 the presidential election occurred among republican Ronald Reagan and democrat Jimmy Carter. Reagan discussed both the Iran hostage crisis and the decreasing economy, therefore he won in staggering numbers. Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative "SDI" was a strategic plan that enforced protection of the United States from nuclear weapons. It was established in 1984 with the presence of strategic defenses rather than offensive and nicknamed "Star Wars". They publicly discussed on a "global shield" that would protect the United States from attacks although not physically plausible. -
"Tear Down This Wall" Speech
"The Tear Down This Wall" speech was made by Ronald Reagan In west Berlin in 1987. He enforced that the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev was to open up the barrier among Eastern and Western Berlin that had been divided since 1961. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva conference, famously known as the Geneva Accords, was a compromise and negotiation for the event in Afghanistan, when Russia invaded it. The United States and Soviet Union functioned as guarantors when Afghanistan and Pakistan signed the agreement. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall came to it's last days in 1989, when the spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announced that they will no longer encourage the wall among East and West Berlin. Citizens were then free to cross the countries borders at their own will.
