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Russian Revolution
The Russian revolution happened when the people got tried of an imperial ruler so the revolted and there would be no more zar in Russia. During the revolution when the Russians where tring to create a new government the Bolsheviks stepped in and took over the government. The people were more happy with this than with the zar so the kept it for a while. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine says that if you need aid to fight communism we will give it to you and help you fight. the first two months of the 400 million dollars was approved to help Turkey and Greece fight communism. -
Potsdam conference
The Potsdam conference happened outside of Berlin through July and August. The conference was call to decide land boundaries, war crimes, and reparations. The three leaders there also demanded unconditional surrender from Japan not knowing that the war was almost over. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
In July of 1945 the A bomb was successfully tested. When Truman got word of this and learned that the Russians were going to enter the war to take more countries. He ordered the bomb be dropped on Hiroshima. The first A bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 that killed 80,00 people. When the Japanese didn't quit, Russia entered the war against Japan early and president ordered a second A bomb be dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 and it killed 40,000 and after that the Japanese quit the war. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is the boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas at the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. -
Hollywood 10
they were 10 Hollywood people who were accused of communism. There names were Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Robert Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo. These people were later exiled from Hollywood. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was a plan in place to a American to help aid Western Europe. The United States gave over $12 billion to help with economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin blockade was when the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin and wanted it for them selves so they took it. The Berlin Airlift was when the U.S. airlifted supplies the Eastern Berlin because they were not getting taken care of by the Soviets so we gave them supplies until the Soviets let them go -
Soviet bomb test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was approved by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during WW2. -
NATO
NATO is an international alliance that consists of 29 countries from North America and Europe. Most of these countries are in Europe. NATO was form to keep peace between countries. -
Korean War
The Korean War started when 75,000 soldiers crossed the 38 parallel into south Korea. As a product of this war the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
The policy was created to stop the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons as a means of deterring war and as a first recourse should deterrence fail. -
Warsaw Pact
It is known as the Treaty of friendship. The cooperation and mutual assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War. It was a war between Communist (North) and Capitalist (South). -
Khruschev Takes over
When he took over he mobilized troops to fight Germany in the Ukraine and Stalingrad during World War two. When the cold war was going on he authorized the building of the Berlin wall and the Cuban Missile crisis. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungary revolution was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist government of the Hungarians. In the ended that won there independence and it on took the about three weeks to break off. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident was when an American spy plane was shot down over Soviet air space. The Soviets agreed to give him back to us but only if we gave them on of there spies back to them. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba. We only did that to stop the spread of communism and to do that we needed to take over Fidel Castro's government but that did not work. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was ordered to be put up as apart of the iron curtain for Russia. Many people died from trying to get into east Berlin because the western part of Berlin was free. When the wall was ready to come down Germans wanted it to come down fast and a lot of people helped with that -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened when the Soviet Union wanted Nukes in Cuba just in case the U.S decided to use ours in Europe. The Cubans were willing to accept it but it never got the the U.S. surrounded the Island to stop the boat and that worked. -
Detente under Nixon
It is a name given to a time of improved relationships between the U.S. and the Soviets that began suddenly in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy created and enforced by the U.S. under the Reagan administration to overwhelm the worlds influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
It was a speech intended for the Soviets leader Mikhail Gorbachev to take down the Berlin wall in a sign of good faith to ending the Cold War. He also wanted all four sections of Germany back together and not under communist rule. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
The Berlin wall fell in 1989 2 years after Reagan gave his speech there. When the wall fell more than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration that was one big street party.
