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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution, it was one of the most explosive political events during the twenty century. It marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian imperial rule. Destitute living conditions for a new class of Russian industrial workers. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting of Winston Churchill,
Harry Truman, and Stalin. The conferance was to discuss the ending terms of World War Two. -
Atomic Bomb
When the atomic bomb was under construction it was code-named the Manhattan Project. It was top secret the only people who knew were the leading scientist Werner Heisenberg and the president. We dropped two bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. It killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 in Nagasaki. The atomic bomb changed war for the rest of the world. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for a wall dividing Europe into two different groups after World War Two. It kept the land that the Soviets claimed for Communism separate from Western and Non-Soviet groups. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a document changing the foreign policy in America. Truman vowed to send financial and military aid to countries like Greece and Turkey to save those countries from becoming communists countries. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Union to give political and economic aid to Western European Countries under Russian control to spread communsim. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood Ten was a group of people from the film industry employed by the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. -
Berlin Airlift
After World War Two Berlin and all of Europe wear split into four sectors. Britain, France, American, and the Soviet Union. All four nations agreed to let the people have free voted, and basic rights. But the Soviet Union failed to do so. And America took action and dropped supplies in Western Berlin. They dropped everything from candy to medical supplies. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was created by George C. Marshall. It was also known as European Recovery. The United States sent $13,000,000,000 to European countries to help rebuild their economy after World War Two. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was started June 6, 1948, to May 19, 1949. It was post–World War II the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies'. They cut off access to railroad and canal leading to Bering under western control. -
Alger Hiss Case
HUAC stands for House Un-American Committee. This committee has the power to put anyone on the stand for doing something they (HUAC) deems un-American.On August 3 Whittaker Chambers was tried by the committee being accused of being a Soviet spy. American society thought that communist was creeping through the cracks of America. -
NATO
Nato stands for Nothern Atlantic Treaty Organization. The organization was created to be a military alliance. Many Western European Countries, Canda, and the United States came together to have collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The first atomic bomb tested by the Soviet Union was codenamed "First Lightning". The Rosenbergs passed American bomb secrets to the Soviets. The first bomb tested was very similar to the Americans first atomic bomb "Fat Man". The bomb testing scared the United States. -
Rosenberg Trial
Mr. Ethel and Ms. Juiles Rosenbergs where tried by the HUAC for being spies. Since the United States and the Soviets were not at war the judge could not charge the Rosenbergs with treason but he did sentence them to death by the electric chair which took place on June 19, 1953. -
Korean War
The Korean War started on June 25, 1950, when 75,000 soldiers from North Korea poured into the 38th parallel being ruled by the Soviet Union. The Americans stepped in for South Korea. This was the first attack during the Cold War. By July 27, 1953, the back-and-forth had stalled and the Korean War was over. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu Battle was consisted of a struggle between French and Viet Minh (Vietnamese Communist and nationalist) forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings took place on April 22, 1954. Joseph R. McCarthy was famous for his violent iteration tactics getting people to confess to being a communist. He became more and more famous. Then he started calling the era "The McCarthyism Era". But then someone called him out on his claims and he was found out to be a fool. He lost everything and became an outsider. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland. It started April 26 and ended July 20, 1954. The conference was held to settle outstanding issues resulting in Korean War and the first Indochina War. -
Warsaw Pact
The treaty was signed in Warsaw, Poland. It was signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. The treaty was created to call a truce and agree to help anyone who signed the pact from an attack from an outsider who wasn't part of the Warsaw Pact. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government way of ruling. They revolt lasted about one month. The citizens of Hungaria protested. They went to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. The Soviet Union put an end to the revloution, but they weren't kind about it. The Soviets had tanks role into Budapest and crush this uprise of citizens. -
U2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War. During the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban launched a botched invasion on the bay of pigs on the south of the Cuban coastline. The Cuban's had fled their homes when Castro took over. However, the invasion did not go well. The invaders were badly outnumbered by Castro’s troops. They surrendered after less than 24 hours of fighting. They realized they couldn't win this fight. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was 11.81'. Construction started August 13, 1961, and that same day the wall started to divide Berlin physically and ideologically. The wall was built to divide East and West Berlin. The communist government wanted to keep East Berlin away from the free west of Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis started October 16 and went until October 28, 1962. The leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union had an intense 13 day of a political and military standoff. On October 22 the president told the U.S. the threat of missile and his plan of a blockade around Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of the South side of Vietnam. Diem and his brother were arrested and killed on November 2, 1963. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was 46 years old. JFK had been traveling with his wife and the Governor Connally. There was a shot fired from the 6th floor of a building on the oppisite side of the road. It hit the Govener and hit JFk, he was prononched dead 30 minuts after the shooting. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.This authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. He had a blank check and could use it for anything. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
On this day in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
In Vietnam Tet was known as a holiday. All events stopped, but the North took advantage of this day and attacked the South. The American Embacy was attacked and we fled from the scene not exspcting the attack. -
Assassination of Mlk
Martin Luther Luther King Jr. was shot at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, From an opposing balcany. MLK was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election, and died the next day while hospitalized. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact nations. The countries are: the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland – on the night of 20–21 August 1968. -
Election of Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election after RFK had been pronounced dead. -
Kent State
The Kent State shooting was the death of four unarmed college students. Nine others were wounded but not shot dead. The college students were there to protest the Vietnam War. -
Nixon Visits China
In an amazing turn of events, President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. Nixon’s historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
The Liberation or the Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975. -
Reagan Election
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989.He became a Hollywood actor in his 20s and later served as the Republican governor of California from 1967 to 1975. He was known as the Great Communicator, the affable Reagan became a popular two-term president. -
SDI Announcement
SDI stands for Strategic Defense Initiative. President Ronald Reagan told the world that the United States was in possession of a satellite that had the ability to shoot down all Soviet Union missile from anywhere from space. It was called Star Wars. He was lying about having this device. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference. Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The meeting came as somewhat of a surprise to some in the United States, considering Reagan’s often incendiary rhetoric concerning communism and the Soviet Union, but it was in keeping with the president’s often stated desire to bring the nuclear arms race under control. -
'Tear down this wall' speech
Tear down this wall speech was given by Preisdent Reagan to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable lines spoken during his presidency. The Berlin Wall, referred to by the President, was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the end of the cold war. The wall was meant to make a divide Berlin from West to East. The divide between communism and democracy was taken down and people had a choice. Free elections were held and the cold war was over.
