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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution groups all the events that led to the end of the tsarist regime and the formation of the Soviet Union. The Tsar was forced to abdicate and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution. In the second revolution, the Provisional Government was eliminated and replaced with a communist government -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam conference was a meeting in Potsdam, Germany, that took place in the Cecilienhof palace. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States, the most powerful of the allies who defeated the Axis powers in World War II. The heads of government of these three nations were the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the prime minister and President Harry S. Truman, respectively. -
Atomic Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear attacks ordered by Harry S. Truman against the Empire of Japan. The attacks forced the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain Refers to the political, ideological, and in some cases also physical, border between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, after the Second World War. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created by the Soviet Union to provide aid for the reconstruction of the Eastern European countries that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
Ten people were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged participation in the Communist Party. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a measure created by the United States that aimed to support "free peoples who are resisting attempts at subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressure," since these regimes represented a threat to US capitalism. It wants to fight against the spread of Soviet influence and, above all, of communism in Western Europe. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a US initiative to help Western Europe. Americans gave economic aid of about 13,000 for the reconstruction of those European countries destroyed after the Second World War. The objectives were to rebuild those areas destroyed by the war, eliminate barriers to trade, modernize European industry and make the continent prosperous again. -
Berlin blockade
The Berlin blockade was the closing of the borders that the United Kingdom and the United States shared with the Soviet Union in occupied German territory. It was imposed by the Soviet Union, and affected mainly west of Berlin. It was applied in response to the monetary reform imposed by these countries. -
Berlin airlift
In response for the Berlin Blockade the Western allies organized the Berlin airlift. It was basically supplies for the Western Berliners. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the French Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day. -
Alger Hiss case
Weinstein investigated the case of Alger Hiss and believed that he was not a communist or a spy. They also interviewed soviet intelligent officers who worked with Chambers and a Freedom of Information Request that eventually produced 30,000 pages of FBI and CIA files. -
NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization is a collective defense system, in which member states agree to defend any of their members if they are attacked. -
Soviet Bomb Test
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test was the first atomic bomb that the Soviet Union dropped in the US. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea, supported by the armed forces of several countries commanded by the United States, against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The war was one of the early episodes of the Cold War. -
Rosenberg trial
The Rosenberg trial began in federal court in the Southern District of New York. The judge presides over spying on the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. they could not accuse the betrayal because the United States was not at war with the Soviet Union -
Army-McCarthy hearing
The United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations held a series of hearings to investigate contradictory allegations between the United States Army and US Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was under the command of General Võ Nguyên Giáp, against the French Expeditionary Corps in the Far East commanded by General Henri Navarre. It took place in the vicinity of the village of Dien Bien Phu and was the last battle of the Indochina war. -
Geneva Conference
This conference was very important for the French colonialist pretensions to continue dominating Vietnam within the French Union. It was also of great value to Ho Chi Minh, president of Vietnam, and his aspirations for full independence and sovereignty.
It was celebrated after the defeat in the battle of Dien Bien Phu -
Warsaw pact
It was a military cooperation agreement signed by the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe. Designed under the leadership of the Soviet Union, its express objective was to counteract the threat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and in particular the rearmament of the German Federal Republic, to which the Paris agreements allowed the reorganization of its armed forces. . -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a spontaneous revolutionary movement of national scope against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its policies imposed from the Soviet Union. -
U2 Incident
The incident of the U-2 plane occurred during the Cold War. They demolished a United States U-2 spy plane on the Soviet Union. Initially, the US government denied the purpose and mission of the plane, but was forced to admit its role in the air intrusion when the USSR showed their remains, and even more, announced that the pilot of the plane had survived. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
It was a military operation in which troops of Cuban exiles, supported by the United States, invaded to try to create a beachhead, form a provisional government and seek the support of the Organization of American States and the recognition of the international community. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a security wall that was part of the inter-German border. It separated the zone of the Berlin city framed in the economic space of the Federal Republic of Germany, West Berlin, of the capital of the GDR between those years, it is the best-known symbol of the Cold War and the division of Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Missile Crisis in Cuba is what is called the conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba, generated as a result of the discovery by the United States of bases of Soviet medium-range nuclear missiles in Cuban territory. In Russia it is called the Caribbean Crisis, while in Cuba it is called the October Crisis. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and murder of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam, provoke a successful coup d'état. The coup meant the end of nine years of autocratic and nepotist family rule in South Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States, was mortally wounded by gunfire while he was driving in the presidential car in Dealey Plaza. Three official investigations concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository store in Dealey Plaza, was the killer. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Tonkin Gulf Resolution is a law issued by the Congress of the United States of America in which President Lyndon B. Johnson was authorized to act in an integral manner against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which he accused of aggressions against US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, where the resolution takes its name. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a military operation in the Vietnam War. Operation Rolling Thunder was the attempt of President Lyndon B. Johnson to destroy the industry and communications of North Vietnam to stop the aid provided by this country to the Vietcong and the continuous shipments of troops of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . -
Tet Offensive
The Tet offensive was a military operation planned by the government of North Vietnam and executed by the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong, against the allied forces led by the United States, especially the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, during the war of Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Two months after King's murder, convicted fugitive James Earl Ray was captured at London Heathrow Airport while attempting to leave the UK with a fake Canadian passport under the name of Ramon George Sneyd. Ray was expeditiously extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder, confessing to the murder -
Assassination of RFK
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Senator of the United States and brother of the also assassinated President John F. Kennedy, took place in Los Angeles. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated during the celebrations of his successful campaign in the California primary in his attempt to obtain the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. The perpetrator was a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a military incursion by the troops of the five socialist countries of the Warsaw Pact, led by the Soviet Union, in which they invaded the Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia to stop the reforms of political liberalization of Alexander Dubček, which had unleashed, earlier, the Prague Spring. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The 1968 National Convention of the Democratic Party was held in Chicago from August 26 to 29, with the purpose of electing the candidate for the 1968 presidential election. -
Election of Nixon
The presidential election of the United States, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic candidate, Deputy Chairman Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
It was an event that took place at the University of Kent, Ohio, where a chaotic panorama took place between students and members of the National Guard in which four students were killed and nine injured by the National Guard, which shot the students. -
Nixon visits China
Richard Nixon went to China with his strategy in 1972 and managed the approach of administration between China and the United States -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of aerial bombardments in North Vietnam. The decision was made after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the President's National Security Affairs Advisor, returned to Washington from Paris, France, with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon or Liberation of Saigon was the capture of the city of Saigon, capital of South Vietnam, by the National Front of Liberation of Vietnam and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This fact marked the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of a period of transition that led to the reunification of the country the following year. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan, a former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989. Raised in small-town Illinois, he became a Hollywood actor in his 20s and later served as the Republican governor of California from 1967 to 1975. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
It was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Tear down this wall was a famous appointment and challenge of the ex-president of the United States Ronald Reagan to the former Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to demolish the Berlin Wall. The speech was held in front of the Brandenburg Gate for the commemoration of the 750th anniversary of Berlin and Reagan's desire to have the wall demolished was a symbol of freedom in the East. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to melt across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for the Communist Party of East Berlin announced a change in its city's relations with the West. As of midnight that day, he said, the citizens of the GDR were free to cross the borders of the country.
