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The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the first Indochina war decisive engagement during (1946- 1954) it was between the French and Viet Minh fighting for control of a small Mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution was an event where Tsar Nicholas the second was over thrown because of his lack of organization so Lenin and the Bolshevikis took over and gained all the power.The Russian Revolution relates to the cold war because it removed Russian from the war and brought the 'Russian empire' into the soviet union socialist republics that replaced the Russians traditional monarchy with the worlds first communist state. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting spot in Germany during the cold war from July 17 to August 2, 1945 for Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Harry Truman, also known as "The big Three". -
The Atomic bomb- Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The Atomic bomb was dropped twice by the U.S. once on Hiroshima Japan, the other was dropped on the city of Nagasaki Three days later on August 9, 1945. This relates to The Cold War because this was the only time Nuclear weapons have been used during the war. -
Hollywood Ten
The Hollywood Ten was 10 motion- picture producers, Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner, Jr. John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo who all went to prison for contempt of congress and refused to answer any questions about there possible communist affiliations. After prison the men were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood studios. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet union in 1947 to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe and to also provide aid, The Molotov Plan related to the cold war because Molotov states to re organize their trade to the USSR instead. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid the Western Europe, United States gave over $13,000,000,000 in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies. -
The Alger Hiss case
The Alger Hiss case was Alger getting convicted of perjury, and peregrine himself and his testimony about his alleged involvement in a spy ring during WWII -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was to send aid to western Europe, the United States gave over $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild western Europe. This evolves the cold war because the Marshall plan reduces the influence and power of communist parties in western Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was the Soviet Union blocking the western allies, railroads, roads, and canal access's to the sectors of Berlin under western control from June 24, 1948- may 12, 1949 the Berlin blockade was one of the first major international crises during the cold war and in the future there will be conflict over the city of Berlin. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the Soviet Union trying to block off west Berliners but but the Soviet Union failed, this involves the cold war because tensions were already rising for the war and the USSR looked at the world like an enemy. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine is an american foreign policy that was made to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. President Harry Truman was the first to announce to congress on march 12, 1947 and was developed on July 12, 1948 when he promised to contain soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. -
The NATO
The NATO is North Atlantic treaty organization which is the communist expansion that promoted the United States and 11 other western nations in 1949 -
The Soviet bomb test
The Soviet bomb test was the Soviet union exploding there very first atomic bomb on august 29, 1949 during the cold war. This shocked the United States because we weren't expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapons knowledge just yet. -
The Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg trial was Julius Rosenberg getting arrested on July 1950 for "conspiracy to commit espionage" and getting executed along with his wife on June 19, 1953. The Soviets exploding their first atomic bomb and basically started the Cold War. -
The Army- McCarthy hearing
The Army- McCarthy hearing was held for investigating conflict with the United States army and senator Joseph McCarthy from April to June 1954, The McCarthy hearing involves the cold war because t was happening while the McCarthy hearing was happening. -
The Genera Conference
The Genera Conference was on April 26, 1954 to July 21, 1954 and it was a conference between many nations and it was healed in Geneva Switzerland settling issues in the Korean War. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance with the soviet Union and Eastern Europe countries, official on May 14, 1955. The Warsaw Pact was going on during the cold war. The Soviet Union formed an alliance to balance out the (NATO). -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide rebel against the Soviet- imposed policies and the Hungarian people's republic of government from October 23, 1956 to November 10, 1956. The Hungarian revolution influenced the cold war emencly with new begins and brought hope in bad times. It was also the first major anti-soviet uprising in the Easter Europe. -
The U-2 incident
The U-2 incident was the CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers over flying and photograph denied terrorists from his U-2 spy plane on the morning of May 1, 1960. The U-2 incident involves the cold war because during the cold war it was one of the most fascinating and compelling stories. -
The Bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of pigs invasion was 1,400 Cuban native countries being barred and launched at what became a botched incision on the south coast of Cuban at the bay of pigs on April 17, 1961. The United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in Americans during the invasion so its concerted part of the cold war. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a U-2 plane soy plane shooting misses into Cuba on October 1962, this relates to the cold war because Cuban crisis was a critical movement during this time. -
The Assassination of Diem
The Assassination of Diem was the president of Vietnam named Ngo Dinh Diem and his adviser that was also his brother named Ngo Dinh Nhu were murdered on November 2, 1963. Diem marked the culmination of a successful CIA- backed coup d'etat which lead to the arrest that was out for him. -
The Assassination of JFK
The Assassination of JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) the 35th President of the United States took place in the Dealey Plaza as he was riding through with his wife in Dallas Texas where he was the assassinated by a former marine Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963. -
the Tonkin gulf resolution
In response to the Tonkin gulf incident the United States congress passed a joint resolution on August 7,1964. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of an aerial bombardment campaign that was against the Democratic Republic of the Vietnam War on March 2, 1965. -
The Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was the North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched an attack against targets in South Vietnam during January 1968. -
The Assassination of MLK
The Assassination of MLK took place at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. By a man named James Eart Ray who used a single shot to hit Martin Luther King Jr. in the neck, an hour later he had passed away from the shot in the St. Joseph's Hospital on April 4, 1968. -
The Riots of Democratic Convention
The Riots of Democratic Convention was Riots braking out through out the country when Civil rights leader MLK was assassinated, the Riots started to brake out on April 4, 1968 -
The Assassination of RFK
The Assassination of RFK took place on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles's Ambassador hotels when Sirhan fired a .22 caliber revolver at Robert F. Kennedy shortly after he finished addressing supporters in the hotel's ballroom. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw pact nations, the soviet union, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland. This took place on August 20, 1968 -
The Election of Nixon
The Election of Nixon was the former vice President with the name of Richard Nixon who is also a Republican nominee and won the election over the democratic nominee, this took place on November 5, 1968 it was known as the 46th quadrennial presidential election -
The Kent State
The Kent State took place on May 4, 1970 most known as The Kent State shooting that killed four people from Kent State University guard opened fire during a demonstration protecting the Vietnam War. -
The Ceasefire in Vietnam
the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam on January 15, 1973 -
The Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon accrued on April 30, 1975 when the communist group of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces held the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon which finally brought the Vietnam war to and end forcing South Vietnam. -
The SDI announcement
The SDI announcement also known as (The Defense Initiative) conceited from the Soviet Union and was the U.S. defensive system against and nuclear attacks on March 23, 1983. -
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev was a conference between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev held in Geneva so they can discuses international diplomatic reactions and Reagan's goal was to convince Gorbachev that all america wants is peace. -
"Tear down this Wall" speech
The "Tear down this Wall" speech on June 12, 1987 was Ronald Reagan telling the Soviet Union leader to open up the barrier wall that was dividing the West and East. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is a national barrier between the most resent Soviet bloc and the West prior to decrease communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain stayed Until the end of the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall that divided the country's boarders of the Citizens of the GDR but on November 9, 1989 the spokesman for East Berlins communist party wanted a change in there relationship with the West so starting at midnight the citizens of the GDR were free to cross the boarders, The Berlin Wall took place during the time of the Cold War. -
The Fall of Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall was allowing citizens of the GDR to cross the country's borders at midnight on November 9, 1989 -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagon Wilson was actually our 40th president from 1981 to 1989, also known as an American politican and actor. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was started when the North Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel and approached non-communist South Korean's from 1950-1953, This was considered a large struggle during the cold war.North Korea overran South Korean and the United States quickly came to the South Koreans aid.
