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The Alger Hiss Case
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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution started when a Russian monarchy was abolished. The Revolution was a social and political revolution throughout Russia's Empire. -
Potsdam Conference
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Atomic Bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Chinese Communist Revolution
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Long Telegram
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Iron Curtain
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The Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Blockade
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO
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First Soviet Bomb Test
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The Korean War
The war started by North Korea invading South Korea, Korea was divided into 2 different states after the cold war. The North was a communist state and the South was an anti-communist state. There was air combat and ground combat, The Korean war was one of the most destructive wars in the modern era. North Korea brought in the Soviet Union to invade the south and the UN got involved. Soon after the UN was brought in, the fighting went to a halt after the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion was started to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. The invaders were the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary, but a small number of specialists, did not participate in the invasion because they were ordered from Moscow not to cross the Czechoslovak border a while before the invasion had started. -
Nixon Visits China
Nixon's visit to china was an important overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of good relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation. -
Reagan Elected
Due to the rise of conservatism following Reagan's victory, some historians consider the election to be an election that marked the start of the "Reagan Era". -
SDI Announced
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The defense was first announced my President Reagan on the 23 of march, he called on the scientists and engineers of the United States to develop a system that would leave nuclear weapons obsolete. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
A Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Both the Soviet Union and the United States were seeking to cut the number of nuclear weapons, the U.S. desiring to ensure that neither side gained a first-strike advantage. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
A speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin, Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
An event which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. Removal of the Wall began on the evening of 9 November 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks, with people nicknamed Mauerspechte using various tools to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts in the process, and creating several unofficial border crossings.
