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Russian Revolution
Bolsheviks fought the nationalists in a civil war and created the Soviet Union after winning. The Bolsheviks were communist which inevitably made all of the Soviet Union communists. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a buffer zone dividing russia and the west. After World War 2, Russia got the land between them and the west to create a shield. This way it was had for there country to get invaded without them knowing. -
Potsdam Conference
A conference between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The conference was to decide how they were going to defeat Germany. -
Atomic bombing - hiroshima and nagasaki
America dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan on August 6,1945. Then the second bomb on the 9th of august. These bombs ended the war in Japan. The combined death count from the bomb was around 120,000. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion. It was announced in March 12, 1947. It aided many people so they did not want to adopt communism. -
Hollywood 10
The hollywood 10 was a group of ten guys in the film industry. They denounced the tactics employed by the house of Un-American Activities Committee. -
Marshall plan
The Marshall plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan was the American aid given to the post-WW2 European countries as a means of preventing further communist contries developing. The plan cost 13 billion dollars at a time, which would equal almost 110 billion dollars today. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked western access to Berlin in one of the first major crises in the Cold War. As a result the Allies air dropped supplies to the city in hopes of saving them from starvation. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a multi-country group formed between the allies after WW2 as an opposition to the Soviet Union activities. NATO was formed on april 4th, 1949 -
Soviet bomb test
The first successful test of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union.The development of the bomb relied heavily on spy rings within the American Manhattan Project and german scientist knowledge. -
Korean War
The first major militant conflict within the Cold War. Began when North Korea invaded South Korea and the U.S. became involved. The Korean War has not technically ended but has instead signed an armistice. -
Krushchev takes over
Nikita Krushchev was selected as one of five men named to the new office of Secretariat of the Communists Party in September 1953. The death of Joseph Stalin on March 5, 1953 created a tremendous vacuum in Soviet leadership. Malenkov would be elected in Stalin's place, in which it didn't take Khrushchev long to take advantage of. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower's Massize Retatiation Policy
The policy directs that all nuclear inbound attacks are to be met with a greater retaliation against the aggressor. This concept directly reffered to the threat of the Soviet Union launching missiles against the United States. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact formally known as the treaty of friendship cooperation and mutual assistance was a defense treaty signed in Warsaw Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states. -
The Vietnam War
Vietnam was a war between between South Korea and North Korea. The war took plave in Vietnam, laos, and cambodia, from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communists government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its soviet-imposed policies, lasting from October 23, 1956 to November 10, 1956. -
U2 Incident
During the Cold Was on May 1, 1960 and American spy plane was shot down while flying in soviet airspace. The plane was shot down in Kosulino, Russia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The original plan called for 2 air strikes against Cuban air bases. The first mishap was when eight bombers left Nicaragua on April 15, 1961. On April 17 the Cuban-exile invasion forces landed at the beaches along the bay of pigs. -
Berlin Wall
The berlin wall was built in August 13, 1961. The berlin wall seperated the democratic west and the communists east. The wall was torn down in Novemeber 9, 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United states was threatening the Soviet union with missiles in turkey. The Soviet Union was threatening the U.S. back and had missiles in cuba. The confrontation lasted 13 days. -
Detente under Nixon
The core effort of this was to avoid all nuclear war talk with each nation. Was a period of time when there was an eas to nuclear threatening. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. Aided anti-communists communities. -
Reagans Berlin Wall Speech
This was the famous speach where Reagan said, "Tear down this wall!" He was calling for the leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the wall and agree to unite both sides of Berlin. -
Fall of the berlin wall
The doconstruction began on November 9, 1989. This event was crucially to rebuilding Germany again. East Germany announced 10 new border crossings.
