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Russian Revolution (1917)
The Russian Revolution happening on Feburary 1917 focused around petrograd. Member of imperial parliament had control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government which was dominated by the interests of large capitalists. They were slowly over ruled by soldiers and the working class. Wanting to insist on a fair right to influence the government and control various militias -
Soviet bomb test
The Soviet Union bomb test was the classified research and development program that was approved by Joseph Stalin to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the Pacific War. Stalin quickly pursued through effective intelligence gathering about the German nuclear weapon project and the American Manhattan Project. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was the name giving to the boundary dividing Europe into two sepreate parts after World War 2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself from open contact with the West and its allied states. On the east are the countries that are controlled or influenced by the soviet union. While on the west were countries that were allied with the United States or nominally neutral. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof on July 17 to August 2 1945. Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States all came to this meeting. Deciding how to administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender on May 8. Goals of the conference also included the establishment of postwar order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Towards the end of World War 2 United States dropped two nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. Before the bombs were dropped the Allies offered unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945. Japan refused the offer so the war kept on. By August 1945 the Allies had produced two types of atomic bombs that would be delivered by B-29s. United States dropped the bomb after the consent of the united kindom. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry Truman on March 12, 1947, and further developed on July 12, 1948, when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. Congress supported financial aid to support the economies and militias of Greece and Turkey. More preliminary the Truman Doctrine implied American support for nations threatened by Soviet communism. -
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan was an American aid to Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe economies after the end of World War. The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 3, 1948. The goal of the United States was to rebuild worn-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of Communism -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin Blockade was the first major international crises of the Cold War. Happening from June 24 1948 to May 12 1949. During the multinational occupation of post the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access to sections of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
NATO also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on April 4 1949. NATO is a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. Since its founding the admission of new member states has increased the alliance from the 12 countries to 29 -
Korean War
The Korean war began on June 25 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea. As the product of the cold war between Soviet Union and the United States. Korea had been split into two sovereign states. Both governments claimed to be the sole government of all of Korea and neither accepted the border as permanent. The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korea forces supported by the Soviet Union and China moved into the south.The United Nations authorized the UN to rebel when this happen. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
Massive Retaliation also known as a massive response. Is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to deffend in much greater force in the event of an attack. -
Khruschev Takes over
Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during a part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1964. When Stalin died in 1953 a power struggle was triggered, from which Khrushchev ultimately emerged victorious. On February 25 1956, at the 20th Party Congress Stalin delivered the "Secret Speech", which denounced Stalin's progres and guided in a less repressive era in the Soviet Union. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. They were investigating conflict accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused Chief Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give treatment to G. David Schine. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw. Poland, Soviet Union, and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955 during the cold war. The Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power to NATO. There was no direct confrontation between them. Instead the conflict was fought on ideological basis and in proxy wars. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government. Of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956 -
U2 Incident
On May 1 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. US authorities acknowledged the incident as the loss of a civilian weather research aircraft operated by NASA. Soviet government produced the captured pilot and parts of the U-2's surveillance equipment. This caused great embarrassment to the United States and prompted a marked down fall in its relations with the Soviet Union.
