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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in 1917 that replaced the Tsarist autocracy with the Soviet Union. The first revolution was in February and saw the Russian Provisional Government which was focused on capitalism come to power. The October revolution saw workers and soldiers overthrow this provisional government. -
Iron Curtain
The name for a border dividing Europe from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War. The border was dividing capitalism and communism in the continent. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held in Potsdam, occupied Germany from July 17th to August 2nd. The goal was to divide post war Germany. The countries in the conference were the UK, USA, and the USSR. -
Atomic Bomb: Nagasaki/Hiroshima
An Atomic Bomb is an explosive device that uses nuclear reactions either fusion or fission. To end the war with Japan, the United States dropped two different atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. -
Hollywood Ten
Also known as the Hollywood blacklist, and it was the denying of employment to screenwriter, directors and actors because they were accused of having communist ties or sympathies. It started with ten individuals refusing to testify. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan or European Rebuild Program was an initiative by the United states to help rebuild Western Europe post World War II. They donated 12 billion dollars. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade started in June 1948 and was put in place by the Soviets to stop the flow of needed goods into the city. The USA and UK responded by airlifting all the necessary goods into the city until the blockade was lifted in May 1949. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy to minimize the expansion of Soviet expansion. With this, the United States provided anti-communist countries with financial and military aid. -
NATO
NATO(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance consisting of 29 state members. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949 -
Soviet Bomb Test
Code Name "First Lightning", it was the first successful detonation of a Soviet nuclear bomb. At the test sight was constructed building and bridges to measure the destruction. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between communist North Korea(supported by USSR and China) and capitalist South Korea(which was supported by the United States). The war started when North Korea invaded South Korea because it wanted the whole of Korea to be under one rule. -
Army -McCarthy Hearings
A series of hearing by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The army accused Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine who was a former McCarthy aide. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Plan
Massive Retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense 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
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising of 1956, was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Khrushchev Takes Over
Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman Who led the communist Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the USSR, started by backing the the space program. -
U2 Incident
Shot down by a surface to air missile on the morning of May 6, 1960. The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, mission was to fly over denied airspace over the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a grounded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically that divided the German capital of Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Detente Under Nixon
Detente, is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. Period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
