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Potsdam Conference
United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union the big three powers who defeated Nazi Germany met at a Potsdam Conference. They met to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb
The first use weapon with great explosive power. Was used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -
Long Telegram
George F. Kennan sent a telegram to the U.S. State Department on the nature of Soviet conduct and foreign policy. It detailed the nature of the Soviet Union in a post-WWII world and how the US may go about relating to them. -
Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill gave a speech in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britian to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism.. -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters. It refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
Truman Doctrine
It would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations. It provided collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Marshall Plan
A U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe due to the devastation of World War II. It was a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries, and infrastructure. It removed trade barriers between European neighbors. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution also known as the War of Liberation was a conflict led by the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong. Its purpose was to maintain Chinese communist by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. -
First Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test. Its code name was RDS-1. It was tested in modern-day Kazakhstan. It has a yield of 22 kilotons. -
Berlin Blockade
It was an attempt o the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain, and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged cities. It supplied West Berlin for nearly a year and sustained over 2 million people. -
Alger Hiss Case
He was sentenced to five years in prison, ending an important case that helped confirm the increasing penetration of the U.S.government by the Soviets during the Cold War. -
Rosenberg Trial
Rosenberg was the first American civilian to be executed for the conviction of conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between the Democratic People Republic of Korea (North) and the Republic of Korea (South). It was a war to liberate the North from the communist. -
Korean Armistice
It was an agreement to ensure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
It signaled the end of the French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
They were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Hungarian Revolution
A spontaneous nationwide revolt against the communist government of Hungarian and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
The pilot of an American U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying through the Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
A CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees land in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The wall came to symbolize the Iron Curtain speech. It was built in order to prevent people from fleeing East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the 'hottest' point of the Cold war. It regarded the moment in which the Cold War came close to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1979 the United States House Select Committee Assassinations concluded that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy and that Oswald did not act alone. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
It authorized President Johnson to take any measure that he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
1968 riots at Democratic convention
Protest against the Vietnam War took place. Counterculture and anti-Vietnam War protest groups began planning protests and demonstrations in response to the convention and the city's promise to maintain law and order. -
Tet Offensive
A coordinated series of North Vietnam attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
Kent State
Students protested the bombing of Cambodia by the United States military forces clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When Guardsmen shot and killed four students. The Kent State shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The north wanted to destroy south Vietnam while the south wanted to defeat the northern forces, -
Fall of Saigon
It took over the city by the Viet Cong and two years later on the 30th of April. -
Reagan elected
His administration implemented a new policy towards the Soviet Union through NSDD-32 to confront the USSR on three fonts. -
SDI Announced
Strategic Defense Initiative by name Star Wars purposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks. -
'Tear down this wall’ speech
Tearing down the wall will give to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
It marked the first critical step towards German reunification. It concluded with mere with the dissolution of East Germany and the official reunification of the German state along with democratic lines of the West German Basic Law.