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Khruschev Takes over
" Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program, and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier." -
Russian Revolution
Two revolutions that led to the rise of the Soviet Union."The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar." -
Iron Curtain
A Barrier separating the Soviet Union from the Eastern Europe. -
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." -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was an allied conference held during WW2. "The chief participants were U.S. President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (or Clement Attlee, who became prime minister during the conference), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin." -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
American Bomber planes dropped Americas first Atomic Bomb "over the japanese city of hiroshima"."Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people." -
Truman Doctrine
"With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces" (Bureau of Public Affairs). -
Hollywood 10
"In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business" (History.com)/ -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
"Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin" (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). -
Marshall Plan
Gave economic assistance to other countries in order to help rebuild western Europe after the end of WW2. -
NATO
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Soviet bomb test
Soviet Union secretly conducted their first successful atomic bomb test. -
Korean War
"On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War" (History.com). -
Army-McCarthy hearings
series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations, to investigate accusations made in "bad faith". -
Warsaw Pact
Also known as The treaty of Friendship, was a defense treaty against the soviet union during the Cold War. -
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". -
Hungarian Revolution
Nation-wide revolt against the Hungarian government. -
U2 Incident
U.S. spy plane shot down by Soviet Air Defense Forces. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
"1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba." -
Berlin Wall
Wall that divided "physically and ideologically divided Berlin". -
Cuban Missile Crisis
"Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey". -
Detente under Nixon
"United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow". -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
"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 (1989)
"The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, 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." -
The Reagan Doctrine
Strategy to overwhelm the Soviet Union in order to end the Cold War.
