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Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Winston Churchill's speech condemning Soviet Union's policies in Europe. -
The Invasion of Hungary
Hungarian Uprising against the Soviet Imposed policies -
Molotov Plan
The system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe . It was meant so that they were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter geopolitical spread during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
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. -
Hollywood 10
ten individuals were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany -
Alger Hiss case
The case against Hiss began in 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor with Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. -
NATO
stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form. This alignment provided the framework for the military standoff that continued throughout the Cold War -
Soviet bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South -
Rosenburg trial
Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
army-mccarthy hearings
a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union -
Warsaw Pact
formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other -
Hungarian Revolution
a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
Election of Nixon
the 46th quadrennial presidential election -
bay of pigs invasion
Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic -
Cuban Missile Crisis
also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Americans -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. -
Reagan elected
1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970. Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. -
Tet Offensive
one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
Riots of Democratic convention
Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out throughout the country -
Assassination of MLK
confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. -
Assassination of RFK
was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland -
Kent State
occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Nixon declares an end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam -
Fall of Saigon
the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
Fall of Berlin Wall
the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
SDI announced
known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Reagan then made his speech at the Brandenburg Gate at 2:00 pm, in front of two panes of ... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 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. -
U2 Incident
It happened 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.
