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Russian Revolution of 1917
The Russian Revolution of 1917 involved the collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Lenin and the soviet union. -
Soviet bomb test
A development program authorized by Joseph Stalin. It's purpose was to develop nuclear weapons during WWII. -
Potsdam Conference
Also referred as the Berlin Conference of the Three Heads of Government of the USSR, USA, and UK. It's purpose was to decide on how Germany should be ministered. It's goals was to establish postwar power, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of war. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 9, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945). -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a meteor for boundary dividing Europe into two from the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 -
Marshall Plan
An American program that aids the western part of Europe. In which the U.S gave $12 million dollars for economic assistance to help them rebuild their nation. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was when the Soviet closed off the railroads, roads, canals etc. to the Western Allies -
NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
An international alliance between North American and European countries. It's purpose was to guarantee the freedom and security of its members. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were a group of screen writers, directors, and video producers who refused to be testified on their ideology (Communist ideology). They believed that it was a violation of their civil rights. -
Korean War
A war between North Korea and South Korea. Due the occurrence of the Cold War, both ideology made the country split into two. North for communism and South for Capitalism -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
A military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. -
Khruschev Takes over
A Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a 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. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956, was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
a 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 CIA. It's purpose was to overthrow Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
The Vietnam War
a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It lasted from Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day 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. -
Détente under Nixon
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971. -
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
It was about the Soviet Union leader to open up the Berlin wall that divided the East part of Germany and Western part of Germany. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall that divided Germany falls down and is now open for both sides of the country.
