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Russian Revolution
Political and social revolution across Russian empire territory. Abolishing monarchy is the start of the revolution and ended with the soviet union establishing and the end of war. -
Potsdam Conference
After the second world war, allied conference with Churchill, Truman, and Stalin "three heads of government". (17 July- 2 August 1945) -
Atomic Bomb
The US detonated two nuclear bombs over two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (6 August- 9 August 1945) -
Long Telegram
In February 1946, George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow helped to articulate the US government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets, and became the basis for the US "containment" strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was initially a non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Molotov Plan
A system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee. refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
Alger Hiss Case
American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, He was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Airlift
The first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 4, 1948. -
Berlin Blockade
First major international crisis of the cold war. Soviet Union blocked western allies' railway, roads, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control. (24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949) -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization,an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
First Soviet bomb test
The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device at Semipalatinsk on August 29, 1949. -
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.The revolution began in 1946 after the Second Sino-Japanese War and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. -
Korean War
Between North Korea and South Korea, North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, the first American civilians to be executed for espionage and the first to suffer that penalty. Accused and convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. March 29, 1951, -
Army- McCarthy Hearings
Series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Hungarian Revolution
Nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies.Oct 23, 1956 – Nov 10, 1956 -
U2 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
A failed attempt by US-sponsored Cuban exiles to reverse Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
