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Russian revolution
The Russian revolutions of 1917 dismantled the Tsarist autocracy, and led to the rise of the Soviet union and communism. -
Potsdam Conference
A meeting consisting of Joseph Stalin of the U.S.S.R., Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and President Harry Truman of the United States. The meeting was to decide on how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which eventually surrendered. -
Atomic bomb- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
After the Germans surrendered, at the Potsdam Conference, the allies asked for the unconditional surrender of the empire of Japan. They declined and did not surrender, so the United states used the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, targeting the civilian populations, to force the emperor of Japan to surrender to the Allies, in return of the bombs, Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending WW2. -
The Iron curtain
The Iron curtain is a boundary, established by the Soviet union to divide Europe into two. The country's and territories on the East side of the Iron curtain were under the Influence of the U.S.S.R. The west side of the Iron curtain were controlled by democracy, living in freedom. -
Truman doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States of America would provide political, military and economic assistance to most if not all democratic nations under threat from internal or external authoritarian threats. -
Molotov plan
The Molotov plan was a system created by the Soviet union, to provide aid and rebuild the countries in eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet union. Its like the U.S.S.R.'s version of the Marshall plan. -
Marshall plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World war 2. -
The Berlin blockade
The Berlin blockade was one of the first major crisis's in the Cold war. After World war 2, the Soviet Union formed blockades to prevent the western powers from giving supplies to the Soviet occupied Germans. -
Berlin airlift
Soviets blocked rail, road, and water access to to Allied control, The Allies responded by airlifting food and fuel from Allied airbases. -
Alger hiss case
Alger hiss was an American government official that was accused of being a soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is an intergovernmental military alliance which constitutes a system of collective defense when member stated agree to mutual defense if under attack by an external party. -
Soviet bomb test
A top secret Soviet atomic bomb research and development project that begun during World war 2 in the wake of the Soviet unions discovery of the United states atomic bomb development. -
The Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 is a 1950's American short documentary film. In the film each member of the Hollywood 10 read a short speech denouncing the Hollywood blacklisting. -
The Korean war
North Korea was under the fascist shroud of communism, and waged war on South Korea, which was wanting to live in peace and enjoy the sweet taste of democracy, knowing that Communism is a lie. -
Rosenberg trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks before the Korean war began. He was executed, along with his wife, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. They were charged with espionage, and were claimed to have given the Soviets the secret to the atomic bomb. -
Battle of dien bien phu
A confrontation between French expeditionary forces and Viet Minh commie nationalist revolutionaries. Its result was a defeat from the French, which lead to Geneva convention negotiations. -
Army McCarthy hearings
A series of hearings between the United States army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy brought up all the recent aggressive investigations of "suspected" Communists and all the security risks in the army. -
Geneva conference
A conference among several nations, in order to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean war and discussing the possibility of peace in Indochina. -
Warsaw pact
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. It was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO, but is also considered a Soviet act of desire for control over the military in Central and Eastern Europe. -
The Hungarian revolution
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian Peoples Republic and its Soviet imposed policies. This revolution was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out of Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War 2. -
U-2 incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The pilot parachuted out of the spy plane and landed safely, but was captured. -
Bay of pigs invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion on the Bay of Pigs, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt and overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin wall
A guarded concrete barrier that separated Berlin from 1961 to 1989, which completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American missile deployment in Turkey and Italy, in which the Soviets then deployed missiles in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The CIA formed and lead a coup to bring Diem and his adviser down, (his brother) and have a "Regime change". Which lead the people of South Vietnam to execute the brothers to attempt to get South Vietnam back on its feet. -
Assassination of JFK
Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, in which he acted alone in the assassination. -
Tonkin gulf resolution
Congress passed the Tonkin gulf resolution, allowing Johnson to take any measure he deemed necessary to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a series of sustained aerial bombing runs against North Vietnam. This was to raise the low morale of the Saigon regime and cease the insurgency of communist forces into South Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was the largest military campaign in the entirety of the Vietnam war. It was a series of attacks launched by the Viet cong and NVA, and the targets of this assault were 100 towns and cities, which they attacked all around the same time. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The rioters were against the war in Vietnam, and protested and rioted to prove their point and stance on the war. 10,000 protesters met 23,000 police officers and national guardsman at the convention. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Tennessee. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in LA. He was shot shortly after he won the California presidential primaries. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
A joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four nations under the Warsaw pact, the invaders were the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. 250,000 Warsaw pact soldiers invaded Czechoslovakia, killing 108 Czech civilians were killed, and 500 were wounded. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon was elected because he brought promise of Law and Order the the nations cities, and have a new leadership in Vietnam. -
Kent State
Shooting of anti war protesters left 4 protesters dead and wounded 9. The people who shot the protesters were Ohio national guardsman. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon and his wife made a visit to China, which at the time was considered a foe to the United States. He met with the PRC and ended the 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Nixon ordered the ceasefire of bombing runs against North Vietnam, after Kissinger returned from Paris, with a newly drafted peace proposal for the NVA. -
Fall of Saigon
The taking of Saigon from communist Veit cong marked the end of the Vietnam War. Forces from the VC and NVA captured key points throughout the city, then raised their flag over the South Vietnamese presidential palace. -
Reagan elected
Once Reagan was elected, he was straight to the offensive, increasing military spending, and branding the Soviet Union as the Evil empire. -
SDI announced
The SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) was a missile defense system intended to protect the United States from ballistic nuclear weapon attacks. It focused mainly on strategic defense more than offence. -
Geneva conference with Gorbachev
The meeting was between Ronald Reagan of the United states, and Mikhail Gorbachev of the USSR, to which the meeting was about diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Tear down this wall speech
This was a speech given by US president Ronald Reagan, which was about Mikhail Gorbachev bringing down the Berlin Wall which divided West and East Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
A spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announced that they would allow Germans from the East and the West to pass over the border and they can go where they please. More than 2 million Germans from East Berlin flocked over to West Berlin and had a big street party.
