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Russian Revolution
also called the October Revolution, that overthrew the czar and brought the Bolsheviks, a Communist party led by Lenin, to power. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a populated area. Followed by the bombing of Nagasaki this show that the Allied strength was unstoppable. -
Potsdam Conference
The Big Three Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by the USSR or communist insurrection. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe. -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
Marshall Plan
The program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II -
Berlin Blockade
It was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies and west Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany witch surrounded West Berlin. -
NATO
It is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II. -
Soviet bomb test
It was as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapons. -
Alger Hiss case
He was an American government official that was suspected of being a Communist spy. -
Rosenburg trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
America was fighting north Korea for invading south Korea. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
It was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's and the Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
It were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was in Geneva Switzerland hints the name. -
Warsaw Pact
It was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. -
Hungarian Revolution
the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government. -
U2 Incident
The U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
President Eisenhower authorized the CIA to recruit 1,400 Cuban exiles living in Miami and begin training them to be fighters. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba had missile sites and was threatening to missile America. -
Assassination of Die
Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother were captured and killed by a group of North Vietnam soldiers. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was shot in the head by a sniper named Lee Harvey Oswald when he as at parade. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution approving and supporting President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to repel any armed attack against U.S. forces in Southeast Asia. -
Tet Offensive
It was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
It was a Operation that The U.S dropped bombs on North Vietnam bases. -
Assassination of MLK*
MLK was killed when he was making a speech by a man named James Earl Ray. -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Riots of Democratic convention
4 collage students were shot by National Guard. -
Election of Nixon
The Republican named Nixon was Elected as President. -
Kent State
Kent state was a Collage. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon and his wife visits communist China and is the first U.S president to visit. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
It ended direct U.S. military combat, and temporarily stopped the fighting between North and South Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
It was the capture of ,the capital South Vietnam by the People's Army of north Vietnam. -
Reagan elected
Reagan was elected on February 6,1980 -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
It was a meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Russian President Gorbachev. -
Tear down this wall’ speech
President Ronald Reagan made a speech in West Berlin on June 12, 1987 to Mikhail Gorbachev to open up the wall which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall separated the free and democratic West Berlin from captives of communist East Berlin. -
Fall of Berlin Wall*
The Berlin wall fell on November 9, 1989 and east and west Germany were united.
