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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a couple of revolutions that -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting held between the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and the US. During the meeting they discussed how they would deal with Germany that was after the World War two. They decided they wanted to separate Germany into four sections and each part of the country would do their part and try to rebuild the whole country. -
Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb was used and built to help end the war in the Pacific. The American bomber B-29 was the first ever to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The bomb had killed about 90% of the population which is around 80,000 people. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name given of the line that separated Europe into two halves. The "curtain" was up from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was the Soviets effort the block themselves from the countries that were not controlled by them -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was used for foreign policy which was created to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. It was first known to Congress by President Harry S. Truman. President Truman pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey in hopes to stop communist. Truman would provide political, military and economic help to all of the nations that were under threat of communism. -
Molotov Plan
The Soviet Union created a system that would give aid to any country Eastern Europe that would economically and politically commits to them. The system was much like the Marshal Plan. The Soviet Union wanted the Molotov Plan to represent how they declined aid provided by America. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was created by George C. Marshall, who was the Secretary of State at the time. George C Marshal thought of the idea that America should give support to those countries so they don't turn to communism because he would go visit European countries and he would notice they were in need of help with their economy. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises during the Cold War. The Soviet Union had blocked Berlin so France, Great Britain and the United States couldn't pass into the Soviets section of Berlin. A lot of the time the Western powers would fly over Berlin and drop food and supplies in order to help then. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union. He was convicted of perjury instead of treason. He was sentence to 5 years in prison. It caused people to fear that there was communists that were spying everywhere around them. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is a military alliance. It is placed in between North American and European states and was signed on April 4th, 1949. It is a system of defense where its member agree to defend each other to an attack by any external party. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Bomb Test was a restricted deployment program that was approved by Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Union had developed nuclear weapons for wars in the future. After the two bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union made the creation of the bombs their top priority. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood ten was a list of 20th-century screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or associations. Artists were rejected and stopped from work on the basis of their supposed membership in or sympathy toward the American Communist Party. -
Korean War
The Korean war was between the North and South of Korea, it began when the North attacked the border into South Korea. America soon intervened and went to help aid South Korea. The two sides of Korea resulted in two of governments with the Soviet Union and America supporting different sides.06 -
Rosenburg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were citizens in the United States that were accused of giving the Soviet Union ways to achieve nuclear weapon. During this time America was the only ones that had nuclear weapons. They were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy televised Congressional hearings in 1954. The Army-McCarthy hearings took over national television from April to June. The Televised news captured national attention because of McCarthy’s notoriety. Soon got his own word McCarthyism, means to publicly make accusations of treason and disloyalty with little to no evidence. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle was between French Union's Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle was known as the first Indochina War. It lasted untll May 7, 1954. The result of this battle was Vietnam temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. This was very important to the cold war because it was a turning point in Indochina. Viet Minh claimed victory. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference that involved many nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It started on April 26 and went to July 20, 1954.The purpose was to settle the issues resulting from the Korean War. The conference made a turning point in the United States involvement in Vietnam. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty called the Warsaw Pact. It was a defense organization that makes the Soviets in command.It was named the Warsaw Pact because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. It included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution started in October 1956. There was thousands of Hungarian protesters that took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from the Soviet Union. On November 4, 1956, Soviet took tanks into Budapest to crush the national uprising. -
U2 Incident
The U2 incident was a United States U2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union captured the American people. America then was forced to admit its military nature, when the Soviet Union came forward with the U-2 spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union taken by the airplane. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The invasion was military mission that was failed. It was the invasion of Cuba undertaken by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This mission was suppose to overthrow the communist government under the rule of Fidel Castro. This came after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that was guarded. It physically divided Berlin. People weren't able to cross over the wall to west or east Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was about the Soviet Union putting nuclear missiles on Cuba. Cuba is about 90 miles away from US shores, this worried America. To remove the Cuban missiles, America promised not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union took the missiles off of Cuba. President Kennedy secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president for South Vietnam. None of the people liked him because he had a different religion than most of the people. He refused to ally with Ho Chi Minh and which caused lots of conflict. On November 2, Diem and his brother were murdered by the South Vietnamese Army. -
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of JFK was on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was our 35th president and was shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was the fourth reported president that was assassinated. Americans were greatly affected by the assassination of Kennedy. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Tonkin Gulf Resolution can as be seen and known as a "blank check" because when you have a blank check you can get however many and whatever you please. With the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, it gave President Johnson the ability to take many measures he could. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a code name that the U.S used when they were about to bomb North Vietnam. This operation marked the first sustained American assault on North Vietnam territory. The bombing went on till October 1968. -
Tet Offensive
While people were celebrating the lunar New Year when the Tet Offensive occurred, it was a huge attack that North Vietnam did too South Vietnam. This attack destroyed 100 cities, killed 67,00 people, invaded bases and the America embassy. This was on of the major turning points in the Cold War, this went on till September 23, 1968. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr, was a Civil Rights Leader that lead many people to freedom. He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was killed by James Earl Ray, then was arrested and was in jail till he died. King's family had believed that the government had something to do with MLK's death. He was 39 years old when he was assassinated. His death many riots started happening around the united states -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was started by the Warsaw Pact. It included the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany and more. This invasion happened on the night of August 20, 1968. Killed 137 people and leaving many wounded. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The Riots of the Democratic Convention, was a Vietnam War protest that tens of thousands of people attended. It happened in Chicago on August 28, 1968. Protester battled police in the streets while the Democratic Party fell apart. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon was the 46th president, He was apart of the 1968 presidential election. The election year was very important. It was marked the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr and the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy -
Kent State
The Kent State shooting also known as the Kent State massacre occurred on May 4, 1970. Members of the Ohio National Guard shot 67 rounds over a period of 16 seconds, at some protesters protesting the Vietnam war, and some weren't. Killing four students. The protest was so important to the war because people turned there focus over to the Americans. -
Nixon Visits China
Richard Nixon was the first U.S. president that visited China since it was established in 1949. This is important to the Cold War because the US was seeking a better relation with a communist country while the Cold War was happening. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of a war. This came in effect on January 28, 1973 with President Nixon declaring it. As a result of a post-ceasefire action about 25,000 South Vietnamese were killed in a battle on 1973. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was what the city was called before it was renamed to Ho Chi Mnh City. Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam. In 1975 after a horrible battle between North and South Vietnam, with the North taking the victory. They went to the Souths capital took over and renamed it Ho Chi Mnh city for the old leader of the north. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States from 1981-1989. Reagan was an American politician and actor. He came from a poor family that lived in Illinois. He then graduated from Eureka College and worked as a sports announcer. He then passed away June 5, 2004. -
SDI Announced
The SDI as the Strategic Defense Initiative is a missile defense system to protect the United States from any attacks by the Soviet Union. This was a space-based anti-missile system. This program was named "star wars". -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The first time in eight years the president of the United States and the Leader of the Soviets met. They held a summit Conference and met in Geneva. At the meeting they discussed the future between themselves, exchanged personal talks and looked like they developed a close relationship. -
"Tear down this wall speech"
The 'Tear down this wall' speech was given by President Reagan. This speech was to the people of West Berlin. He asked the Soviet leaders "Why is the wall there?". After Reagan's speech a newspaper in West Germany called the Bild-Zeitung, stated he thought the wall could be 'torn down'. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to end, the Berlin Wall fell. The spokesman for East Berlin's communist Party said, that there will be a change in the relationship between to the East and West. More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend, to celebrate what some said as the "The greatest street party in the history of the world".
