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Russian Revolution
In 1917 Russian citizens were tired of being poor, hungry and being at war. There was a large gap between rich and poor and finally the poor revolted. And it turn Russia into an communism country which in the opposite of what U.S wanted. -
Soviet bomb test
In the 1940, the Soviet Union secretly did a research and development program to make a nuclear bomb during World War II that was ordered by Joseph Stalin. On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union secretly conducted the first test and was successful. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain, an imaginary barrier by the Soviet Union after World War II to separate from non-communist countries. This showed how the Soviet Union didn't believe in any other type of govt. -
Potsdam Conference
In July 17- August 2, 1945, the meeting of the grand allies with the three leading power of WW ll United States (Harry Truman), British prime minister (Winston Churchill) , and the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin) to discuss how to divide Germany. -
Atomic Bomb
In August 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities, Hiroshima/Nagasaki that killed many citizens. This caused a big change in warfare and soon the Soviet started to build their bombs -
Molotov Plan
In 1947, the Soviet Union created this system to give political and economic aid to counties in Eastern Europe just like the Marshall Plan but, in their (Soviet) way. -
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Truman Doctrine
President Truman's plan to prevent the spread of communism by supporting any country that need it. The US would provide military, economic or political assistance to those countries in need. This was the first step in preventing the spread communism and intensified the cold war. -
Berlin Airlift
During the Berlin Blockade, due to the Soviet Union blocking all access to West Berlin. So Western Allies decided to sent aircrafts with supplies to give aid to people in West Berlin which includes fuel, food, clothes and etc. This plan help not to spread communism to West Berlin and also its was successful. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government officials, whose was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union and was convicted in 1950. An former U.S. Communist Party member testify against Hiss and told that Hiss indeed has secretly been an communist while in federal service, which Hiss had denied many times. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was created in 1948 by the U.S to give aid to Western Europe for economic assistance at the end of World War II. The U.S. gave over $12 billion to rebuild the economic. The U.S main goals for Western Europe was to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism. -
Berlin Blockade
In 1948, Germany was divided into 4 sections with the Soviet Union own the West and the U.S., France, and England own the East. Later the Soviet blocked the Western Allies' access for Western Berlin won't receive any supplies. Soon after on June 24- May 12 1949 the Western Allies heard of what was happening, they sent aircraft with supplies food, clothes, medical care, etc. for citizen wouldn't suffer and died. This shows how the Soviet didn't care if anything happen to people in Western Berlin. -
NATO
NATO (National Atlantic Treaty Organization) is international alliance to protect others states with armed force from a attack which was established in 1949. This organization involved 29 states in North America (2) and in Europe (27). -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten was a blacklist for denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and American entertainment professionals. They were denied employment because most people thought they were communism for always denying to answers question nor testify. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war against North Korea with the aid of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea with the aid of the U.S. North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1953. Since the Soviet Union and the U.S. divided Korea. The war ended three years later, after both countries agree signed the Korean Armistice Agreement for to separate both countries and return each other prisoners. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens spies for the Soviet Union by giving top secret information and giving the Soviet Union aid to make an nuclear weapons designs. Once the U.S. federal government found out what they were doing. The Rosenberg were tried, convicted and were executed. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings were series of hearings against the U.S Army and Joseph McCarthy to investigate the conflict accusations. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the first Indochina War between the French and Viet Cong Communist. The French original plan was to draw out Vietnamese and destroy their superior powers. French was defeat at Geneva and then supported the soldiers at Dien Bien Phu. -
Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations to discuss the settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War that Korean ended without adopting any declarations or proposals, and generally considered a less relevant. It's also came to an agreement to temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Viet Minh rebels and the southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a 'Treaty of Friendship' or a defence treaty between Warsaw, Poland and the Soviet Union and its seven satellites states. This treaty gives military complement to both countries. -
Hungarian Revolution
This revolution was a revolt against Communist regime of the Republic for Hungarian and its Soviet policies. This revolt first was a student protest to fight for their rights that become nationwide. -
U2 Incident
One of U.S. U-2 spy planes were shot down by the Soviet Union air missile on May 1, 1960 for trying to view Soviet territory. The pilot Francis Gary Powers land safety but ended up getting captured and put into jail. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The a of Pigs Invasion was an mission by the CIA for the military to take over Cuba which failed. This invasion also involves intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Many were imprisoned during this invasion. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was created by the German Democratic Republic in 1961, it guarded concrete barrier with guard towers. The wall cut off West Berlin on from East Germany and East Berlin until the government decided to opened it. The Wall prevented almost all such emigration between 1961 and 1989. During this time over 100,000 people attempted to escape and over 5,000 people succeeded to escape; others were either caught and died. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
October 16 through 28, 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a missile scare. An confrontation between the U.S and the Soviet Union because American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey and Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. This conflict also considers, the closest to the Cold War came to escalating a full-scale nuclear war. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of South Vietnam. On November 2, 1963 Diem and his brother was arrested at Gia Long Palace in Saigon for successful in a bloody overnight siege. Once a rebel forces entered the palace, the brother had escaped and misleading the rebel to believe that they were in the Plaza. The Ngo brother soon surrender and were executed while in the back of a armoured personnel carrier by Army of the Republic of Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963, 35th President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while in Dallas, Texas at the Dealey Plaza while on the presidential motorcade with his wife and Texas Governor and his wife. Kennedy was shot by a former U.S. Marine, Lee Oswald in a nearby building. Oswald arrest by Dallas Police Department an hour later, went jail got shot and died later. Thirty minutes later, Kennedy was pronounced dead in Parkland Memorial Hospital and Lyndon B. Johnson became President. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 2, 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was when the United States Congress had passed an joint resolution after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. This gave President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress to uses conventional military force in Southeast Asia and even could uses involving armed forces by sending our American boys into combat in a war. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The Operation Rolling Thunder was a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. The operation to boost the morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam and to persuade North Vietnam to support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam. Also wanted destroy North Vietnam's transportation system, industrial base, and air defenses. This was the most intense air/ground battle waged and the most difficult campaign fought by the U.S. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was the largest military campaign in the Vietnam War with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against the South Vietnamese Army, the U.S. Army and their allies. This campaign was surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam: would trigger a popular uprising leading to the collapse of the South Vietnamese government. The U.S. and the S.V. would later have to replan everything. Although Americans would support it later on -
Assassination of MLK
American clergyman and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, James Earl Ray, on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
Assassination of RFK
The U.S Senator and the brother of J.F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California while celebrating his successful campaign in the California primary elections. Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan was accused of the assassination although there were doubt of an second gunman. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In August 20- September 20, 1968 when five countries; the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary invaded Czechoslovakia with 250,000 Warsaw pact troops. This event has killed 137 Czechoslovakian civilians and seriously wounded 500. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic Convention was through August 26- 29, was when President Johnson announced he would not seek reelection and to also select a new presidential nominee to run for office which Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated for President -
Election of Nixon
On November 5, 1968, the presidential election was a major election that talks mostly about science and political history was a dramatic change in the political system. Former Vice President, Richard Nixon (Republican) won against Hubert Humphrey and became the 39th president. -
Kent State
On May 4, 1970, Kent State University in Kent, Ohio was a shooting that killed four students and wounding nine others were protesting against the Cambodian Campaign that a announced by President Nixon. The mass protest was against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. -
Nixon visits China
February 21 through 28, 1972, President Nixon visits China to gain more used over relations with the Soviet Union. This visit allowed the American public to have view images of China for the first time after 20 years and included a significant shift in the Cold War. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Ceasefire in Vietnam is establish to make peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. It also includes governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Republic of Vietnam, and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government that represents the original South Vietnamese revolutionaries and to would remove all remaining US Forces, including air and naval forces. -
Fall of Saigon
On April 30, 1975, Saigon, the capital in South Vietnam was captured by Fall of Saigon, the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong. This event was at the end of the Vietnam War; also started of a transition to the formal reunification of Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. PAVN started their final attack on Saigon and day before and evacuation of almost all the American civilian and military personnel in Saigon: along with tens of thousands of South Vietnamese civilians. -
Reagan elected
The U.S. presidential election in the 1980 was when Ronald Reagan (Republican) won the election to Jimmy Carter for his lack of popularity and poor relation to help the U.S. Reagan idea was to support supply-side economic policies, and a balanced budget and won by with the majority of votes. -
SDI announced
President Ronald Reagan has announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a missile defense system to protect the U.S. from any nuclear missile attacks that include the uses of satellite with lazers (Star War) to trick the Soviet Union for using their very little economic money. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference with Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union met with U.S. President Ronald Reagan for the first time to the discuss the Cold War and international diplomatic relations and to talk about who had the best armed forces. Also shows how both countries leader became friend later on. -
'Tear Down this Wall' Speech
On June 12, 1987, President Reagan gave a speech in front the West Berlin wall asking Mikhail Gorbachev to bring down the Berlin wall once for all to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, the East Germany had announced that they were going to teared the Berlin Wall for they could reunified Germany. Also, for people in West Berlin could finally be free and for family could reunite once again after 20 years. This event was marked as the ended of the Cold War.
