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Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was a American government official who was accused of being a Soviet Spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with his charge in 1950. -
Russian Revolution
The US opposed lack of right prior property , arrest without charge , any against or disagree's. -
Potsdam Conference
This was the big meeting where the big three nations had a meeting Henry Truman , Joseph Stalin , Winston Churchill. There was a agreement on reconstruction of Germany and the entire European Theater of war territory. Also to negotiate the ending of world war 2. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagaski
The atomic bomb was a big factor in the world at the time this didn't just effect Hiroshima and Nagasaki it brought fear to the other countries who didn't have such a weapon. Stalin already knew about the Manhattan plan because of Russian spies. That's why Stalin was not suprised about to atomic bomb. But was upset that they used it on Japan. This would change warefare in the future by use of nuclear weapons used could end the human raise as if there was another bloody war. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was where Winston Churchill term for Cold War division between the Soviet dominated West. -
Molotov plan
This was the Soviets plan to economic plan to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe. -
Containment
The policy of containment was to prevent the expansion of communist-ism. Stalins buffer zone was Hungary , Poland , Russia , Czech , Romania against future invasions. George F was in charge of the US embassy. He recommended to take Stalin out before he and his army gets nigger and stronger. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan reduced the influence and power of Communist parties in Western Europe. -
The Truman Doctrine
Truman asked for 400 million in military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctrine that would guide diplomacy for the next 40 years. -
Berlin Blockcade
The Berlin Blockade prevented resources and supplies from reaching West Berlin hoping to starve the W. Berliners into accepting Soviet leadership. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A military and defensive alliance formed by 12 countries in Western Europe and North America. And the first peace time alliance in US history and the most important for the past 60 years. -
The Berlin Airlift
Germany was divided into four occupation zones. The soviets had plunggered the eastern zone of Germany to rebuild the Soviet Union. Stalin put a blockade in Berlin to force the western allies out of west Berlin. The US response was the Berlin airlift they would send food supplies to to the people of Berlin. Nato was formed to defense against Russia. The soviets in response made the Warsaw pact. In 1949 was the year the Soviets tested thier first Atomic bomb which was successful and upest the us -
Soviet Bomb Test
After August 29 1949 America no longer was the only country with nukes , the Soviet Union tested there first nuclear bomb and it was a success. America was nervous knowing they were not the only country with nuclear capability. -
Hollywood ten
The Hollywood ten were 10 writers , directors who were accused of being communists. -
Alger Hiss , McCarthyism and HUAC
Alger Hiss was a communist spy for the soviet union he gave away secret documents to the soviets and was convicted of perjury. McCarthyism was the search of communism in America. HUAC was an investigating committee which was considered UN-American propaganda. -
Rosenberg Trial
This couple were convicted and executed by the electric chair for their involvement in sharing top secret documents to the Soviets during the cold war. -
Army- McCarthy hearings
Hearings called by senator Joseph McCarthy to accuse members of the army of communist ties. The hearings exposed the Senators extremism and led to his eventual disgrace. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive engagement in the First Indochina War it consisted of a struggle between French and Viet Minh. forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
Geneva Conference
A conference between many countries that agreed to end hostilities and restore peace in French Indochina and Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a Treaty Organization a political and military alliance established on May 4 1955. The Soviet Union heard of the NATO alliance where there was non-communist countries. So the soviet union and other former communist countries created what is called the Warsaw Pact alliance. It was a communist alliance. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarians wanted an end to Soviet control in Hungary. Hungarians wanted more political freedom , economic improvement through greater contact with the west. Over 4,000 Hungarians were killed by the red army. -
U2 Incident
Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1 1960 , CIA pilot Frances 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
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response the communist East German authorities built a wall that encircled West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period in 1962 where the Soviet Union placed Nuclear missiles in Cuba to scare the United states. John F Kennedy was in office at the time at the time. He negotiated a deal with the soviet union to take the nuclear missiles out of Cuba. -
Assassination of JFK
Kennedy was riding with his wife when he was fatally shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Assassination Diem
Diem was a South Vietnamese politician named Prime minister of the state of Vietnam in 1954. Diem's presidency was overthrown by the South Vietnamese military a day after he was captured him and his brother were both killed by a group of soldiers. -
Tokin Gulf Resolution
The Tokin Gulf Resolution gave approval to president Lyndon B. Johnson which gave him unlimited powers to to oppose communist aggression in Southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a strategic bombing campaign during the Vietnam War that took place. It lasted four years. -
Tet Offensive
This was a a series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. The communists seized held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year. -
Assassination of MLK
Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was a social activists and Baptist minister who played a major role in American civic rights movement. On April 4, 1968 MLK was shot and killed with a single shot. James Earl Ray was convicted of mlk's death and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. In which died in Prison. -
Assassination of rfk
Robert F. Kennedy presidential candidate was shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan. Robert had just won the presidential election. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Known as the Warsaw Pact invasion this event occurred in 1968 when 5 allied countries invaded Czechoslovakia. -
Riots of Democratic convention
At the National Convention in Chicago tens of thousands of Vietnam protesters battled police in the streets during the Democratic party falling apart over a internal disagreement concerning it's stance on Vietnam. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial United States presidential election. Republican nominee former vice president Richard Nixon won the election of 1968. -
Kent State
On May 4 Kent State University four students were shot and killed by Ohio's National Guard. During a demonstration protesting the Vietnam War. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon's hopes to reach out of the China was to build up a more stable , peaceful world. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On this date all warring parties in the Vietnam War sighed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace accord. -
Fall of Saigon
Communist , North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capitol of Saigon , forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War. -
Reagan Elected
Reagan took office in 1980 after Nixon left office. He was president for 8 years. -
SDI Announced
The Strategic Defensive Initiative " Star Wars" proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks mainly the Soviets. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva summit of 1985 was a cold war era-meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was where Ronald Reagan and soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
"Tear Down this Wall" Speech
The fall of the wall President Ronald Reagan brought down the Berlin wall. Which many Americans believe that Reagan's speech in Berlin led to the walls fall in 1989. -
Fall of 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.
