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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire which started with the abolishment of the monarchy and led to the eventual creation of the Soviet Union -
Potsdam Conference
Conference between the U.S, Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom on how they would administer Germany after there surrender -
The Atomic Bombs
The atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender -
Long Telegram
George Kennan writes and sends an 8,000-word telegram to the department of state about his view on the Soviet Union and the U.S's policy towards it.Which resulted in an underpinning for the U.S cold war containment -
Iron Curtain
A barrier constructed by the Soviets in order to isolate themselves from the West and to keep a communist lifestyle behind the walls away from the democratic government on the other side -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy with a purpose of preventing the expansion of communism from the Soviets during the cold war by providing aid too democratic nations under threat of communist takeover mainly Greece and Turkey -
Molotov Plan
The Soviets plan to provide aid to countries in Eastern Europe that were in some way economically or politicly involved with the Soviet Union -
Hollywood 10
Members of the Hollywood film industry were being questioned on potential connections with the Soviet Union and out of those, 10 of them denounced the methods in which the United States was going about finding out this information and were banned from working with big movie studios -
Marshal Plan
Giving 12 billion dollars of economic aid to Western Europe and their economies after WW2 in an attempt to stop the spread of communism -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviets block all means of transporting goods to Berlin due to it being under Western control and only offer to lift it if the U.S withdrew the Deutsche mark from West Berlin -
Alger Hiss Case
Case of a government official being accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union due to real fear of spies being in our central intelligence -
NATO
The North Atlantic treaty organization was designed as a counterweight to the Soviet Unions armies in Eastern Europe and provide a collective security -
First Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Bomb test. Code named First Lightning was an attempt at constructing a nuclear bomb that was similar in its construction to the first atomic bomb dropped "Fat Man" -
Berlin Airlift
The U.S giving food and supplies to berlin in a joint effort with Great Britain. We delivered the supplies by plane due to the blockade -
Chinese Communist Revolution
A revolutionary period in China that led to the proclamation of the people's republic of China -
Rosenberg Trial
A trial in which Julias and Ethel Rosenberg were tried and convicted for espionage as they in part had sped along with the development of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union greatly and executed in 1953 -
Korean War
A war between North and South Korea that were split into sovereign nations between the U.S and the Soviet Union with the North being under communist leadership and the South being under Capitalist leadership with both claiming to be the sole government of Korea which eventually led to warfare. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Hearings held over conflicting reports from Senator McCarthy on him having information on potential Communist spies and associates but were later found to have no consistent evidence -
Warsaw Pact
A treaty of friendship between the Soviet Union and 7 other socialist republics and was in direct response to NATO in the Western half of Germany -
Hungarian Revolution
A Nationwide revolution against the Hungarian Republic and the Soviet policies that it had imposed -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
An invasion on the bay of pigs due to the takeover of Fidel Castro but didn't supply air or ground support so it was crushed. Leaving the U.S embarrassed -
U2 incciedent
A United States plane was shot down during its mission of aerial reconnaissance in Soviet territory and showed clear faults in our relationship with the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall
A wall separating East and West Berlin to prevent the people of East Berlin due to West Berlin thriving under capitalist control -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba makes an offensive move to set up missile bases in attacking range of the United States and the U.S prepares to launch there attack on Cuba as the world holds it's breath. U.S and Soviet Union ultimately come to a decision not to do so -
Assassination of JFK
In Dallas Texas president Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald and later succumbed to his injuries, Estimated 2 to 3 shots hit the president -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
An invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary. Romania and Albania refused to participate -
Nixon visits China
A diplomatic mission to establish trust between the U.S and mainland China -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan becomes are 40th President of the United States -
SDI announced
A proposed missile defense system designed to protect the United States from ballistic missile attacks and was publicly announced by Ronald Reagan -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
A conference between U.S president Ronald Reagan and Soviets general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev discussing the arms race and international diplomatic relations -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
A speech that was given by Ronald Reagen in West Berlin in which he tells General Secretary of the Communist Party to tear down the Berlin wall which had separated East and West Germany -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The falling of the Iron Curtain and soon the fall of the inner German border and a pivotal point in world history
