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Postdam Confrence
Conference at the end of the war and Europe between the U.S. Russia and the U.K Discussion of post-war Germany stain promises free election in europe. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki - *
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. -
Long Telegram - * (Containment )
George F. Kennan's “Long Telegram” from Moscow helped articulate the U.S. government's increasingly hard line against the Soviets and became the basis for the U.S. “containment” strategy toward the Soviet Union for the duration of the Cold War. -
Iron Curtain Speech - * (Containment)
Iron Curtain speech, speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” ... -
Marshall Plan - * (Truman Doctrine)
The Truman Doctrine essentially meant giving money and weapons to enemies of the USSR. The Marshall Plan was an attempt to get all of Europe in debt to the USA and allow the Americans to dominate it. The American view was that the Truman Doctrine was stopping the continuing spread of Communism. -
Truman Doctrine - * (Truman Doctrine)
President Harry S. Truman presented this address before a joint session of Congress. His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece. -
Marshall Plan - * (Truman Doctrine)
The Marshall Plan was an attempt to get all of Europe in debt to the USA and allow the Americans to dominate it. The American view was that the Truman Doctrine was stopping the continuing spread of Communism. -
Hollywood 10 - * (HUAC)
The Red Scare was a period of anti-Communist fervor in the United States. Learn about the Hollywood 10, the HUAC, and Sen. Joseph McCarthy -
Berlin Airlift - * (Berlin Airlift)
The Berlin Blockade 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 railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO - * (Berlin Airlift)
On 26 June 1948, Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviet regime. ... It also explains why the fifteen NATO members supported the defense of West Berlin's freedom in front of Soviet pressure. -
Berlin Blockade - * (Berlin Airlift)
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain, and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. -
First Soviet bomb test - * (Berlin Airlift)
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. -
Chinese Communist Revolution - * (Berlin Airlift)
The Soviets helped the Communists and they drove the Nationalists out of china and into Taiwan in 1949. All aspects of Chinese life came under the control of the peasant was important and so he emphasized that lifestyle. -
Alger Hiss case - * (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. -
Korean War & Korean Armistice (2 separate events) - x
The signed Armistice established a "complete cessation of all hostilities in Korea by all armed force" that was to be enforced by the commanders of both sides. -
Rosenberg trial - * (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, Ethel Rosenberg née Ethel Greenglass, (respectively, born May 12, 1918, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 19, 1953, Ossining, New York; born September 28, 1915, New York City—died June 19, 1953, Ossining), the first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the decisive engagement in the First Indochina War (1946–54). It consisted of a struggle between French and Viet Minh (Vietnamese Communist and nationalist) forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. -
Army-McCarthy hearings - * (McCarthyism)
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations (April–June 1954) to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact - x (Berlin Airlift)
Flying from occupied Germany and landing a supply plane in Berlin at the rate of one every 3 minutes, the Berlin Airlift managed to supply the city with the materials needed for survival. Truman had thrown the gauntlet at Stalin's feet. The USSR had to now choose between war and peace. -
Hungarian Revolution - x
Hungarian Revolution, popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule. Encouraged by the new freedom of debate and criticism, a rising tide of unrest and discontent in Hungary broke out into active fighting in October 1956. -
Cuban Missile Crisis - * (The Bay of Pigs Invasion)
After much debate in his administration, Kennedy authorized a clandestine invasion of Cuba by a brigade of Cuban exiles. The brigade hit the beach at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, but the operation collapsed in spectacular failure within 2 days. -
U2 Incident - x
U-2 Incident, (1960), the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
Bay of Pigs invasion - * (The Bay of Pigs Invasion)
Bays in pigs invasion is a cold war planned and fought by American president John F. Kennedy in an attempt to overthrow in early 1960’s. This came after Fidel Castro overthrew the then Cuban president Fulgencio Batista. The president was corrupt and had allies in the United States allowing the Americans to control the Cuban economy (Khan 21). The incoming Castro did the opposite by disapproving the Americans and resisted any approach by the Americans to run their control. -
Berlin Wall - x
Berlin Wall, German Berliner Mauer, a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. -
Assassination of JFK - x
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf 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. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. -
1968 riots at Democratic convention
The Democratic National Convention of 1968 was held in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to 29. Thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets to demonstrate against the Vietnam War and the political status quo as delegates poured into the International Amphitheatre to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate. -
Kent State
In May 1970, students protesting the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces, clashed with Ohio National Guardsmen on the Kent State University campus. When the Guardsmen shot and killed four students on May 4, the Kent State Shootings became the focal point of a nation deeply divided by the Vietnam War. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
All parties would implement a cease-fire within 24 hours of signing the agreement; U.S. forces and all foreign soldiers would leave South Vietnam no later than 60 days after signing the agreement; and American captives would be released concurrently with the withdrawal of American forces. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. -
Reagan elected
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory. -
SDI announced
Ronald Reagan revealed his desire to embark on revolutionary research into a national security system that may render nuclear weapons obsolete in a televised address to the country. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
"Mr. Gorbachev, bring down this wall," popularly known as the Berlin Wall Speech, was given by US President Ronald Reagan on June 12, 1987 in West Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was a watershed moment in world history, signaling the end of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of communism's demise in Eastern and Central Europe. Shortly after that, the inner German border fell.