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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 counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad faith and in retaliation for his recent aggressive investigations of suspected Communists and security risks in the Army. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution took place on March 8-7, 1917. The United states opposed communism because of liberal democracy which is no freedom of speech to others which later caused problems with the Soviet union. Because of this President Wilson sent troops to go fight against the communists in Russia. Despite this there was a February Revolution that was because the Russians were tired of starving and on the October Revolution Lenin sized control over Russia -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was requested by Winston Churchill. The Iron Curtain depicted as a black line. Warsaw Pact countries on one side of the Iron Curtain appear shaded red; NATO members on the other shaded blue; militarily neutral countries shaded gray. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was held at Cecilienhof, Germany. This conference was held between the three super powers, U.S, Soviet union, and United Kingdom (President Harry S. Truman. Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill). The conference was about the establishment of post-war orders, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of the war. -
Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima/Nagasaki)
During the final stage of WW11 on August 6, 1945 U.S bombers dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and then three days later August 9, 1945 a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. After the incident the emperor of Japan announced on the radio that his country surrender. It was the first tome the people of japan hear their emperors voice. -
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 that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. It was the assumption that all communism movements were orchestrated from Moscow (controlled). -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. More generally, the Truman Doctrine implied American support for other nations threatened by Soviet communism. The Truman Doctrine became the foundation of American foreign policy, and led, in 1949, to the formation of NATO, a military alliance that is still in effect. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to recreate Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion. The plan was in operation for four years beginning on April 8, 1948. It was operated by U.S Secretary of state George Marshall.The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous once more, and prevent the spread of communism. -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Western Allies withdrew the newly introduced Deutsche mark from West Berlin. He was determined to make the people of East Berlin starve until his order was fulfilled. -
Berlin Airlift
Because of the Berlin Blockade the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin. Aircrews from the United States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the French Air Force,the Royal Canadian Air Force,and the Royal Australian Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing to the West Berliners up to 8,893 tons of necessities each day, such as fuel and food. On 12 May 1949, the USSR lifted the blockade of West Berlin. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviets were determined to test their first Atomic bomb in 1949. Which was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. They were determined to do it because the U.S did the Manhattan Project. -
NATO
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization also called the North Atlantic Alliance. It is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. This was between France The United State and United Kingdom and it was an alliance that consists of 29 independent member countries across North America and Europe. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. People feared that he was part of a communist conspiracy to destroy the United States from the inside. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood 10 were people in the movie industry that defied ( Un-American Activities Committee) HUAC. Since they refused to answer questions they were convicted of contempt and sent to prison and others were blacklisted. Because of what was happening Hollywood cranked out anti-communism films. -
Korean War
The war began when North Korea invaded South K. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union also gave some assistance to the North. After the first two months of war, South Korean and U.S. forces rapidly dispatched to Korea were on the point of defeat, forced back to a small area in the south known as the Pusan Perimeter. The war ended on 27 July 1953, when an armistice was signed. -
Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenburg's were two women (Ethel and Julius) that were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. They were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. They were convicted and sentenced to die on and electric chair. -
Geneva Conference
The Conference was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. Several nations discussed that Vietnam was divided at 17th parallel, Ho Chi Minh’s nationalist forces controlled the North and Ngo Dinh Diem, a French-educated, Roman Catholic claimed control of the South. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. French began an operation to insert soldiers at DBP, deep in the hills of northwestern Vietnam. Its purpose was to cut off Viet Minh supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, a French ally, and tactically draw the Viet Minh into a major confrontation in order to cripple them. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. It was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955. Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs. Its largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution (Oct 23- Nov. 10, 1956) was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian people republic. When it first began it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II. On 4 November, a large Soviet force invaded Budapest and other regions of the country. Over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. -
U2 Incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War 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. The Soviet government came forward with the captured pilot and remains of the U-2 including spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union taken by the aircraft. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall devided West and East Berlin, It started August 13, 1961 and ended on November 9, 1989. The wall included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches. The Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
On 2 November 1963, Diem and his adviser, his younger brother Ngo Dinh Nhu, were arrested after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. Discontent with the Diem regime had been simmering below the surface, and exploded with mass Buddhist protests against long-standing religious discrimination after the government shooting of protesters who defied a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife, Nellie, and was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Golf Resolution
On August 7, 1964, 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. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
This operation were to boost the sagging morale of the Saigon regime in the Republic of Vietnam, to persuade North Vietnam to cease its support for the communist insurgency in South Vietnam without actually taking any ground forces into communist North Vietnam, to destroy North Vietnam's transportation system, industrial base, and air defenses, and to halt the flow of men and material into South Vietnam. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States Armed Forces, and their allies. It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Election of NIxon
Richard Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore law and order to the nation's cities and provide new leadership in the Vietnam War. A year later, he would popularize the term "silent majority" to describe those he viewed as being his target voters. Nixon won the popular vote by a narrow margin of 0.7 percentage points, but won easily in the Electoral College, 301–191-46. -
Kent State Shooting
The Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970 were of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Twenty-nine guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. -
SDI Announcement
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. Reagan was a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction, which he described a "suicide pact", and he called upon the scientists and engineers of the United States to develop a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete.
