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Russian Revolution
The Russin Revoluion lasted from March 8, 1917 to November 7, 1917 which included two individual revolutions in both March 1917 and October 1917. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference occured from July 17, 1945 to August 2, 1945 and was an attempt to make peace between the Soviet Union and America. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Atomic bomb was dropped on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a Soviet system created in 1947 to provide aid and rebuild Eastern European countries that were tied to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the Presdident's appeal for the aiding of the countries threatened by Communism. -
Hollywood 10
In 1947, 10 members of the hollywood industry refused to answer questions having to do with Communism when speaking with the House Un-American Activities Committee. -
Marshall Plan
An American made plan to aid Western European countries economically. A total of around $120 billion (in today's currency value) was given to Western European countries. -
Berlin Blockade
From June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union made an attempt to limit access to Berlin by creating a blockade. -
Berlin Airlift
In 1948, the US orchestrated the Berlin Airlift which helped to re-supply Berlin after the Blockade was built. -
Soviet Bomb Test
In 1949, the Soviets successfully tested their own atomic bomb. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organzation, formed in April, 1949,is a military alliance between several North American and European states. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an ex-communist turned state department employee who was accused and convicted of being a spy for the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
From June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, North Korea and South Korea were at war with each other. The United States aided South Korea while the Soviet Union and China aided the North. -
Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in March of 1951. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a dramatic confrontation of the first Indochina war between the French and the Viet Minh which occured from March 13 to May 7, 1954. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the US Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations in 1954. -
Geneva Conference
In order to settle remaining issues from the Korean War and possibly restore peace in Indochina, the Geneva Conference was held among several nations from April 26 to July 21, 1954. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty between the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was dissolved on July 1, 1991. -
Hungarian Revolution
From October 23 to November 10, 1956 Hungarian Citizens revolted against the Hungarian government and it's Soviet-influenced policies. -
U2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy-plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier dividing Berlin from August 13, 1961 to November 9, 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
From October 16 to October 28, 1962, the Soviet Union and the United States confronted one another over the installation of nuclea-armed Soviet missiles off the coast of Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The President of South Vietnam was arrested and assassinated in November of 1963. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Passed on August 7th, 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution allowed President Johnson to take any measures deemed necessary to retaliate in order to promote international peace in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
From March 2, 1965 - November 5, 1968, Operation Rolling Thunder was the gradual and sustained bombardment of Northeast Asia. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military operations of the Vietnam War. It was launched by the Viet Cong. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate and Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in LA. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In 1968, four of the Warsaw Pact nations, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland invaded Czechoslovakia. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
Dyring the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, riots broke out between Vietnam Protesters and Police. -
Election of Nixon
Former Vice President and Republican nominee Richard Nixon won the 1968 Presidential election over Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
In 1970, 4 unarmed students who were protesting the Vietnam War were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen. -
Nixon Visits China
The historic visit to China by President Nixon began the process of re-establishing relations between the US and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
In January 1973, a cease-fire went into effect in Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
The capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, was captured by the Viet Cong in Aprl 1975. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Reagan was elected US President in 1980. Thus began the era of the "Reagan Revolution". -
SDI Announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed "Star Wars", was a proposed missile satellite defense program intended to destroy Soviet missiles before they reached the US. President Reagan announced that this program had been successful in order to prevent the Soviet Union from bombing the US. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Reagan and Gorbachev hold their first conference in Geneva, Switzerland. -
"Tear Down This Wall" Speech
President Ronald Reagan traveled to Berlin in 1987 to deliver a speech directed towards Gorbachev asking him to "tear down" the Berlin Wall. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was finally torn down starting on November 9, 1989.
