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russian revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the autocracy and led to the uproar of the Soviets. -
russian revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the autocracy and led to the uproar of the Soviets. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, issued a declaration demanding “unconditional surrender” from Japan.Talks primarily centered on postwar Europe. -
hiroshima and nagisaki
During the final stage of World War II the United States detonated 2 nuclear weapons over the Japanese citys of Hiroshima and nagaski.The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, most of whom were civilians. -
iron curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War -
truman doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that was created with the stated purpose to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. -
marshall plan
The Marshall plan was the American aid given to the WW2 European countries as a means of preventing communist contries from developing. The plan cost 13 billion dollars at the time -
Berlin blockade and airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major crises 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 u.s. proceeded to air drop supplies into berlin. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance is a military alliance between several North American and European countries. -
soviet union bomb testing
the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, nicknamed “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the path of the bomb -
hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
korean war
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea.North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Khruschev Takes over
In the 1940s Khrushchev held a number of important positions in the Soviet government.he and his supporters pushed Malenkov out of the premiership and replaced him with a Khrushchev puppet, Nikolai Bulganin. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
Massive Retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy.Claimed there where 250 comunists hidden within the U.S. goverment. -
The vietnam war
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
hungarian revolution
a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
u2 incident
The u2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when 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 undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506.1400 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. -
berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
cuban missile crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
Detente under Nixon
Period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the SALT treaties. Relations cooled again with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration that was, one journalist wrote, “the greatest street party in the history of the world.” -
warsaw pact
collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states.The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
