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Russian Revolution
the russian revolution was a communist revolution in russia in 1917 -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference is a meeting between the 3 biggest powers of the world to talk about how germany will be governed and rebuilt, along with how peace will run through the world. -
The Atomic Bomb
The Manhattan project was the creation of the very first atomic bomb, the atomic bomb was used on the empire of japan on the islands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this striked fear in the Japanese but mostly the soviet union. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is a line drawn between west capitalist nation and the eastern communist nation -
Containtment
The leader of the united states keep russia contained from invaded there western neighbor countrfies -
The Truman Doctrine
was a change in us policy that russia and the us did not agree on how the sections of germany should be governed -
The Marshall Plan
An economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2 -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the 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. -
The Berlin Blockade
This was caused by Stalin corrupting berlin into communism, scaring them away from capitalist nations around it -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an aid to the starving Germans slaving away in Berlin, Germany. The US provided all the essentials to survive. -
The Korean War
In 1950 the communist North Korea decides to invade nationalist South Korea. The US go to help with the stopping of communist spread -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an american government official that was accused of being a russian communist -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood actors/actresses took the right to refuse to answer question in HUAC -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Rosenberg Trail
Julius and ethel rosenberg were sentenced to trial to face the court of being a communist spy -
Soviet Bomb Test
The bomb was tested in Atomgrad, the bomb was able to be made by spies in the Manhattan Project -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
The Warsaw Pact
Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 incident
Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh in November 1963 -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22 1963 in Parkland memorial hospital in Dallas -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States (U.S.) 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( -
Tet Offensive
a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong (rebel forces sponsored by North Vietnam) and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
The Assassination of MLK
MLK is a baptist minister and an advisory that soon becomes a major leader of the African american civil right movement. Mlk was killed on April 4th 1968. MLK supported the war of Vietnam for liberty and freedom of the Vietnamese citizens -
The Assassination of RFK
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. -
The Invasion Of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois. Hubert Humphrey was the President Nominee. -
Election of Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.Nixon was soon wounded and killed. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. -
Nixon Visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and China after years of diplomatic isolation -
Ceasefire on Vietnam
Vietnam War. On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris, France with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall Of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. -
Reagans Election
The election was held on November 4, 1980. Ronald Reagan and running mate George H. W. Bush beat Carter by almost 10 percentage points in the popular vote. ... The electoral college vote was a landslide, with 489 votes (representing 44 states) for Reagan and 49 for Carter (representing six states and Washington, D.C.). -
SDI
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983 -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
"Tear Down This Wall"
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961 -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989
