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Russian Revolution (1917)
There were two parts to the russian revolution, the first of which, in February, overthrew the imperial government and the second of which, in October/November, placed the Bolsheviks in power. -
Potsdam Conference(1945)
Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. -
Iron Curtain(1945)
The Iron Curtain was, the political, military, and the ideological barrier made by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/Nagasaki(1945)
On August 6, 1945, the United States had dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima.Three days after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9 – a 21-kiloton plutonium device known as "Fat Man.” The B-29 plane that carried Little Boy from Tinian Island in the western Pacific to Hiroshima was known as the Enola Gay, after pilot Paul Tibbets' mother. -
Truman Doctrine (1947)
On March 12, 1947, President Harry S. Truman declared immediate economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey because they were afraid they were going to be taken over by Soviet Union expansion into the Mediterranean ,Great Britain had announced that it could no longer afford to aid those Mediterranean countries, which the West feared were in danger of falling under Soviet influence. -
Hollywood 10 (1947)
On October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, These 10 people were announced a sentence to prison from six months to a year for the influece of communism. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948)
The Berlin Blockade and Airlift was an international crisis that was formed 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 and leave their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
Marshall Plan(1948)
Marshall Plan, formally known as the European Recovery Program, from April 1948–December 195. A U.S program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries and to create stable economic conditions to live under and survive, -
Soviet Bomb Test (1949)
The Soviet Bomb Test was a classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons to be used against The United States. -
NATO (1949)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty of April 4, 1949, which was created a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. -
Korean War (1950-1953)
The Korean War was a conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). The United Nations and the United States began to be a participant and joined the war and sided with South Korea and the people's republic of China aided North Korea. -
Khrushchev Takes Over (1953)
Khrushchev was selected as one of the five men to be named to be apart of the new office of Secretariat of the Communist Party. Khrushchev’s selection was a crucial first step to his rise to power in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev being named the secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953, and premier in 1958. -
Army-McCarthy hearings (1953)
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. -
Eisenhower Massive Retaliation Policy(1955)
A military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. -
The Warsaw Pact (1955)
Formally known as the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
A popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule. -
U2 Incident (1960)
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
Bay Of Pigs (1961)
abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), on the southwestern coast by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government. -
Berlin Wall (1961)
A barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented from anyone to enter East Berlin. from 1961 to 1989 during this time period 2.5 million east germans had fled to the west side of Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
A major confrontation between America and Cuba because the U.S.S.R had given Cuba missiles.
