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Russian Revolution
A pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. This revolution was one of the causes the Cold War begun. This began on March 8 and ended on November 7, 1917. -
Potsdam Conference
Allied conference of World War II held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. The conferees discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe but did not attempt to write peace treaties. This lasted from July 17 to August 2, 1945. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain is the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II. This was seal itself off from open contact with the West and non-communist countries. During the Cold War, the iron curtain extended to the airwaves. This took place from 1946 to 1990 -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. President Harry S Truman declared immediate economic and military aid to the governments of Greece. This is significant because it caused Great Britain to no longer aid Mediterranean countries. -
NATO
This is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was a military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty. This was significant because it's purpose was to strengthen and unify the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
Hollywood 10
This was a list of media workers ineligible for employment because of alleged communist ties. This occurred during the McCarthy Era. This went on during the late 1940s to the 1950s. -
Warsaw Pact
This was a treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. This treaty provided for a unified military command and for the maintenance of Soviet military units on the territories of the other participating states. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This caused major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. This crisis marked the climax of the US- Soviet Union relations. It also marks the closest point that the world had ever come to global nuclear war. -
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was announced at the State of the Union. President Reagan called upon congress and the American people to support this and stand up against the Soviet Union. "We must not break faith with those who are risking their lives--on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua--to defy Soviet-supported aggression and secure rights which have been ours from birth." -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
