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The Iron Curtain Speech
A speech given by Winston Churchill on condemning Soviet policies in Europe and states the form of an "Iron Curtain" of communism. This speech worked as one of the opening of the Cold War and also organizing and policing the postwar world. -
The Molotov Plan
The Soviet Union made this plan to aid Eastern European countries that were on the side of the Soviets. This was made in response to the United States, Marshall plan as well as new communist ventures. -
Hollywood 10 hearings
From Hollywood film industry 10 members publicly denounced the tactics of the House Un-American Activities Committee during alleged communist influence in American movie businesses. These important screenwriters as well as directors, became known as the Hollywood Ten, had received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
The Marshall Plan
America's initiative of this plan was to aid Western Europe after being dramatically effected by World War Two losses and prevent the spread of communism. The United States gave over 12 billion dollars to help support European economy and rebuild it. -
The Berlin Airlift
When World War Two ended the capital of Germany was split into 4 sections of the allied nations. Many Russians then came together to block off all highways, railroads, and canals thinking it would cut off supplies. In response to this the United States and its allies supplied their sectors of the city by air. -
The Berlin Blockade
This blockade was one of the first international crisis of the Cold war. Hoping to withdraw the allies, Germany and the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and also canal sectors of Berlin under the Western control. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was made to prevent Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. This was an American made foreign policy. -
Alger Hiss case
Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist as well as an editor for Time magazine, testified in the House Un-American Activities Committee. Mr. Chambers accused Alger Hiss, a former state department official of being a communist. -
NATO
Also known as the Northern Atlantic Alliance this organization is an intergovernmental military alliance. This was also based on the Northern Atlantic Treaty as well as -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
This was the detention of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb, practicing on structures and animals. This bomb was made in response to the United States bomb and the uncovering of information and of the blue prints by German born chemist Klaus Fuchs. -
Korean War
This war began with North Korean people crossing over the north boundary, in which the Soviet Union as well as China came to aid the north and America to the South. The United States saw they convict as a fight against international Communism. -
The Rosenberg Case
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in New York accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. Many had believed they were prosecuted for being part of the Communist party but when offered a deal for pleading guilty, they refused and were executed. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the first big battle of the First Indochina War between the French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
McCarthy hearings were many hearings that were held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations of conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva Conference
This was a conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of this was to attempt to find a way to settle the huge issues in the Korean peninsula and tallk about the possibility of restoring the peace in Indochina. -
The Warsaw Pact
The pact was made by the Soviet Union in response to West Germany being made part of NATO and being allowed to militarize. The treaty called on the signed states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force, also setting up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. -
The Invasion of Hungary
This was a revolt nationwide against government's Soviet imposed policies as well as of the Hungarian People's Republic. Also this invasion was one of the first major threats to Soviet control. -
U2 Incident
Held during the time of the cold war as well as during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when America's U-2 spy plane was shot down while it was in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
This attack was military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 that had failed. -
The Berlin Wall
A wall constructed by the German Democratic Republic dividing Berlin. The German government made this barrier to block Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it's primarily served the objective of stemming mass favor of opposing countries from East to West. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The superpower leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union took part in a intense, 13-day political and military standoff. This dispute was over the installing of the nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba, being 90 miles from U.S. territory. -
Assassination of Diem
A major turning point for Vietnam was this brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, as well as his brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Mr Kennedy had been shot twice, and after an hour of his murder Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
This Resolution passed by congress, authorized President Johnson to take any measures believed necessary to retaliate and the maintainment of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
First Geneva Conference
This was where the first 4 treaties of the convention took place, amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held in 1864. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The gradual aerial bombing campaign acted by the US 2nd Air Division and later Seventh Air Force as well as the US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) -
Tet Offensive
This was one of the biggest military campaigns of the Vietnam War being started by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. The campaign was one not expected and full of surprise attacks against military, civilian command, and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
King was a civil rights leader who was killed by a fatal shot in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he had been pronounced to be dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. James Earl Grey later was charged and in trial pleaded guilty the the crime facing a sentence of 99 years. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy, a senator of this time was shot and killed in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the 1968 presidential election. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Solviet Union lead Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to prevent reformist trends in Prague. This successfully slowed the pace of of reform there but consequences forming together communists. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
U.S. Democratic Party was held this event at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. President Lyndon B. Johnson had said that he would not be going into re-election, the point of the convention was to chose a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the presidency. This meeting was held during a time of several violence, political issues, and civil unrest, specifically riots in more than 100 cities following many assassinations. -
Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. The Republican nominee, was former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election against the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State shooting
This massacre happened at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard. Here there had been 28 soldiers who admitted to firing on top of the hill. This act of protest of students for the Cambodian Campaign had an end result of 4 dead and 9 injured. -
Nixon visits China
President Richard Nixon takes a turning point with the relationship with the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by taking a dramatic first step by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. The two nations had been bitter enemies till Nixon entered the slow process of re-establishing diplomatic relations. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the United States issued a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. This decision had come after the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, came back to Washington from Paris, France with the draft of the peace proposal. Combat missions still were in affect in South Vietnam. But by January 27, 1973, all warring parties in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
Fall of Saigon
The taking over of the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
The 49th election was between Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent and former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who had ran as an independent. Reagan was helped by the Iran hostage crisis and a weakening economy by high unemployment and inflation, winning the election by a landslide, receiving the most number of electoral votes ever by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. -
Announcement of SDI ('Star Wars')
This project was publicly announced by Ronald Reagan, made for defending against Soviet nuclear weapons. He also intended to end MAD as a nuclear strategy and a strategic initiative to neutralize the military component of the Soviet Union's nuclear defenses.[ -
Tear Down This Wall' speech
A memorable speech of history given by Ronald Reagan in front of the Berlin wall. Reagan spoke of the issue of the wall and the importance of taking it down. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to result across eastern Europe, the east communist party spoke of change in the city's relation with the west. After, that night the spokes man of the east announced citizens were free to across over.
