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Alger Hiss Case
The Alger Hiss Case was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948. He was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution were a couple of revolutions in Russia. They dismantled the tsarists autocracy and led the rise of the Soviet Union. The outcome was an abdication of Nicholas 2 and the collapse of the imperial government. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was about how to administer Germany. Other goals it had was the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of war. The control defeated Germany winning the war with Japan and securing peace with Eurpoe. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States flew two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changes warfare in the future because its causes a growing sense of fear in the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was known for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War 2 until the end of the Cold war. The Soviet Union blocked itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine represented the dramatic change in the U.S form policy. It was going to prevent communism. President Harry S. Truman message was known as the Truman Doctrine which asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood 10 was American 16 minute short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American start on aiding Western Europe. The U.S gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Blockade was the major problems of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Western allies organized the Berlin airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Airlift could be called the first battle of the Cold War. It was when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. Germany and Berlin were divided up into four sections. Soviet Union controls Eastern Europe and West Berlin controls the rest. -
Nato
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons during World War 2. The Soviet scientific community discussed the possibility of an atomic bomb throughout the 1930s. It was going as far as making a concrete proposal to develop such a weapon in 1940. -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenburg trial were American citizens who were suspected of spying, with others, for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government of the United States. They were accused of providing top secret information. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
Army–McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. They investigate conflicting accusations between the U.S army and the U.S senator. -
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-nationalist revolutionaries. It was a significant turning point in the Indochina. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was intended to settle issues from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. This conference made a turning point in the United States involvement with the Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty signed by the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellites states. It came to be seen as a threat and the signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The Soviets troops put a brutal end to the Hungarian Revolution. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident was United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. It is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a visit to Dallas, Texas. His death caused intense mourning in the United States and brought Vice President Lyndon Johnson to the president. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a joint resoultion congress passed in the U.S. It was significant because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. The operation became the most intense air and ground battle waged during the Cold War period It was the most difficult such campaign fought by the United States. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. It was significant because it launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King was killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee and pronounced dead at 7:05 pm. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was declared dead at 1:44 pm. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries. The five countries were the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary. Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia was the end of appeasement -
Riots of Democratic convention
As President Lyndon B. Johnson had announced he would not seek reelection, the purpose of the convention was to select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office. The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities -
Election of Nixon
Richard Nixon was formally announced his candidacy following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization following defeats in the 1960 presidential election. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings was a protest 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. The result were many deaths and was a tragic event. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits 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. It was an important event because the U.S. was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country during the Cold War -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Ceasefire in Vietnam is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. Ceasefires may be declared as part of a formal treaty, but they have also been called as part of an informal understanding between opposing forces. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon. This event was significant because marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. -
Reagan elected
Reagan elected was know as the realigning election that marked the start of the "Reagan Era according to some historians. Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
SDI announced
The SDI was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. It was announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. It helped end the Cold War, as it presented the Soviet Union with a technological challenge that it could not meet. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev was when president Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time, in Geneva, to talk on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
‘Tear down this wall’ was a speech give by Ronald Reagan telling the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. The address Reagan delivered that day is considered by many to have affirmed the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin which was constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Fall of Berlin Wall was November 9, 1991. 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. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Ceasefire in Vietnam is a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions. When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population
