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Russian Revolution (1917)
It took place when the peasants and working-class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas ll and they were led by Vladimir Lenin also a group of revolutionary called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government invented the country of the Soviet union. It ended during november 7, 1917 -
Potsdam Conference (1945)
On July 26, 1945, united states president Harry S. Truman, united kingdom prime minister Clement Attlee, and Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Kai-Shek issued the document, which outlined the terms of surrender for the empire of Japan as agreed upon at the Potsdam conference. It ended on August 2, 1945. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki (1945)
Atomic bomb was the new weapom for america. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Iron Curtain (1946)
Iron Curtain was used by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S. on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. -
Truman Doctrine (1947-1948)
On March 12, 1947, Harry S. Truman asked for $400 million in Military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey and established a doctine, aptly characterized as the truman octine,that would guide u.s. diplomacy for the next 40 years. -
Marshall Plan (1948-1949)
The officially called "Europea Recovery Program" was a plan of the U.S. for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe after world war ll. This was done to stop communism. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift (1948-1949)
During the multinational occurpation of post world war ll Germany, the soviet union Blocked the Westerm Allies railway, road, and canal acess to the sectors of Berlin under Western. -
Nato (1949-1950)
Nato stands for North Atlamtic Treaty organisation which brings together the of various countries, including Britain and the united states. It was founded in 1949, after the end of the second war. -
Soviet bomb test (1949-1950)
It was the first Soviet nuclear test, code named was "RDS-1" The device had yield of 22 kilotons, -
Hollywood 10 (1950
The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. The film was directed by John Berry. -
Korean War (1950-1953)
It began when north korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and invaded non-communist south korea. -
Army-McCarthy hearings (1945)
McCarthy had turned his investigations to army security but the army in turn charged his using improper influence to win preferential treatment for a former staff member, Pvt G. Davd Schine. The Army-McCarthy hearings dominated national television from April to June 1954. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy (1954)
Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Pulles believed that containment was not enough to stop Soviet expansion, and thereforce adopted a policy know as massive retaliation, in which the u.s. was prepared to use atomic weapons if they were to be attacked. -
Warsaw Pact (1955)
The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and set up a unified military commond under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. The introduction to the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact indicated the reason for its existence. -
The Vietnam War (1955)
The Vietnam war was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted communist government of north vietnam agaisnt south vietnam and its principal ally, the united states. more than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed the vietnam war and more than half of the doad were vietnamose civilians. -
Hungarian Revolution (1956)
It was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1986. Through leaderless when it first began, it was the first major treat to Soviet control since the ussr's forces drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of world war ll. -
Khrushchev takes over. (1958)
Krushchev led the soviet union during the height of the cold war, serving as premier from 1958-1964. He instigated the Cuban Missle Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
U-2 Incident (1960)
In 1960 U-2 Incident occured during the cold war on 1 may 1960, during the presidency of dwight. -
Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)
On April 17, 1961 the Cuban- exile invasion force, known as Bridge 2506, landed at beaches along the Bay of Pigs and immediately came under havy fire. President Kennedy authorized an "air-umbrella" at down on April 19 six unmarked America fighter planes took off to help defend the brigades B-26 aircraft flying. -
Berlin Wall (1961)
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961-1981. The height was 11.8. They build the wall between East and WestBerlin was a geographied loophole through which thousands of east Germans authorites built a wall. -
Cuban Missle Crisis (1962)
It was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and Soviet union during the cold war and was the moment when the two superpowers came closet nuclear conflict. During Cuban Missle Crisis, John F. Kennedy was the president. -
Detente under Nixon (1979)
Nixon a candidate for reelection was under fire at home from those deamding social change, rocial equality and an end to the vietnam war. With the election of Ronald Reagom who emphasized military prepandness as the key to soviet-america relations, detente as nixon had envistored it came to an end. -
The Reagan Doctrine (1985)
In his State of the Union address, President Ronald Reagan defines some of the key concepts of his foreign policy, establishing what comes to be known as the “Reagan Doctrine.” The doctrine served as the foundation for the Reagan administration’s support of “freedom fighters” around the globe. -
Reagon's Berlin Wall Speech (1987)
"Tear down this wall" is a line from a speech made by US president Ronald Reagon in west Berlin on june 12,1897, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided west and east Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
On November 9, 1989, as the cold war began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announce a change in his cities relations with the west. Starting at midnight that dat, he said citzens of the GDR were dree to across the countrys borders.
