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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 when the poor and the working class of Russia revolted against the leader, Tzar Nicolas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union. The Russians suffered from hunger and poverty, they also suffered both physically and economically in government. Russians overthrow Tzar for being a terrible leader and imprisoned him. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany. The Potsdam Conference was created to meet and defeat the Nazi. The Big Three also issued a declaration demanding “unconditional surrender” from Japan. -
Atomic Bomb- Nagasaki and Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days later another bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The reason why the United States dropped the bomb on Japan was to teach them a lesson. Asking them wasn't enough to make Japan surrender. The first bomb was done because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was named for the dividing boundary separating two areas of Europe. The term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. The Iron Curtain was a barrier to keep non-communist away. Eastern Europe fell under the influence of the Soviet Union a communist country while the Western chose the U.S as the ally. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Truman Doctrine was a policy to counter Soviet communist policy expansion during the Cold War. President Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance from all countries that needed it and were under threat. -
Hollywood 10
The House Un-American Activities Committee was charged with investigating allegations of communist influence and subversion in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War. known as the Hollywood blacklist - was the practice of denying all actors, directors, screenwriters etc. in the entertainment industry during the 20th century because they were accused of having connections with communism. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. Marshall Plan was created to aid the Western side of Europe after World War II. It provided goods for the European that needed it. For 4 years, Marshall Plan aid 16 countries. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Russians had cut off access from the Allied zones of occupation in West Germany to West Berlin, which was in the Russian zone. So the Allies had to either surrender West Berlin or they had to supply it by air. At the end of the Berlin Blockade, Berlin people lived without food, clothes, medical supplies etc, U.S plan for an airlift of supplies to West Berlin. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April 4, 1949, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. NATO was created in 1949 by the United States to protect Western European against the Soviet Union. "NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere." -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. USSR successfully made their first atomic bomb which they dropped at Semipalatinsk. The United States was in shock because they didn't expect the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapons so soon. The Soviet didn't want to be left behind in the nuclear race, so they went and made one for themselves. -
Korean War
The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. A fight between North and South Korea that prevent North Korea from taking over all Korea. America was willing to send troops to help the South while Soviet Union was willing to send troops to expand communism. -
The Vietnam War
A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The war conflict started when the North starts spreading communism to South.The United States involvement in the war was a way to keep communism from expanding to South Vietnam. -
Khrushchev Takes Over
Nikita Khrushchev assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the period following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. Khrushchev served as a General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as a Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
President Eisenhower adopted a foreign policy of “massive retaliation.” This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
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. A series of hearings about the conflicting accusations between United States arm and McCarthy. -
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 An organization that was a political and military alliance established between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. The Warsaw Pact was a sign of communist dominance. -
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. Although Hungarian remained as a communist country, people bravely fought for their freedom. Hungary revolted and withdraw Warsaw Pact which means they don't want to be a communist country anymore. -
U2 Incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. The U-2 Incident revealed that the Soviet Union were greatly exaggerating their nuclear capabilities. It raised tension between The United States and the Soviet Union. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. The United States invaded the Bay of Pigs to destroy Cuba's communist government. The Plan was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The wall symbolizes the lack of freedom under communism. The wall was built to stop communism spreading all over Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The Soviet Union wanted to put Missiles to Cuba in 1962. The event was seen as one of the most important conflicts in the Cold War because it may have been that moment when the Cold War would get involved in a nuclear war. -
Detente under Nixon
Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term originates in the time of the Triple Entente and Entente cordiale in reference to an easing of tensions between. The goal of détente (the easing of tensions between nations) was to continue to resist and deter Soviet adventurism while striving for "more constructive relations" with the Communist world -
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. The Reagan Doctrine was created to support people who are against communism. It was made to spread freedom and democracy around the world. This policy brought down Soviet and Cold War ends on 1991. -
Reagan Berlin Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on 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. Reagan challenges the leader of Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. He wanted to make sure If Gorbachev would really tear down the wall to unite West and East Berlin. -
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 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. As Reagan told his speech, East destroyed the wall and unite with the West. Freedom and Unity.
