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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a communist revolution in Russia in 1917 as a result of WW1. This set up the ideological differences between democratic capitalist America in communist Russia. -
Atomic Bomb
The Atomic Bomb was created in 1945 and was tested in the New Mexico desert, The U.S later then used it on Hiroshima And Nagasaki in the Same year. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam conference was important because it discussed what countries like, Germany and America, wanted after the war. The U.S wanted control over Germany. The U.S also wants to finish the war that is left in Japan. Russia wants to impose Communism all across Europe. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron curtain was a defense line erected by the Soviet Union to protect eastern Europe from non communist areas -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system made by the soviet union to help destroyed eastern Europe countries -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a plan to prevent communism from spreading to other countries. Truman supported Greece and Turkey with congresses approval. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a Program set up to help western Europe to rebuild from soviet attacks, The U.S funded 12$ billion to Western Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union blocked all connections to any Western Allied with Germany, they blocked railroads, airways, roadways and even canals -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a response to the Soviets blockade. The U.S flew into West Berlin and supplied food, water and medicine to the citizens in the blocked city. -
NATO
NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization), is an alliance with 29 different members allied from North America and Europe. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood 10, The Hollywood 10 were actors, and movie producers that were accused for acting "Non-American". People believed these 10 people had some sort of connection with communist countries. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was thought to be a Soviet Spy. -
Rosenurg Trial
Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. He was executed, along with his wife, Ethel, on June 19, 1953, a few weeks before it ended. The legal charge of which the Rosenbergs were convicted was vague: Conspiracy to Commit Espionage. But in a practical sense they were held accountable for giving the so called “secret of the atomic bomb” to the Soviets -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950 the Korean War started when about 80,000 North Korean soldiers Marched over the 38th parallel which divided North and South Korea. This was the beginning of the Cold War. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
After French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley in late 1953, Viet Minh commander Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed heavy artillery in caves of the mountains overlooking the French camp. -
Geneva Conference
In an effort to resolve several problems in Asia, including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina, representatives from the world’s powers meet in Geneva. The conference marked a turning point in the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused Chief Committee Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was an act of Friendship. This treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. -
U2 Incident
A U2 is a spy plane used by Americans. The Americans where using the U2 plane to spy on the Soviet Union when it was suddenly shot down by anti aircraft missile. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'etat led by General Duong Van Minh in November 1963. On 2 November 1963, Diem and his adviser, his younger brother Ngo Dình Nhu, were arrested after the Army of the Republic of Vietnam had been successful in a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. -
Tonkin gulf resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
On February 13, 1965, President Johnson approved Operation Rolling Thunder a sustained campaign of aerial bombardment against the North Vietnam. Following the Rolling Thunder, Operation Steel Tiger, an air interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail, was conducted by the U.S. Air Forces. -
Tet offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of MLK
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., mortal shooting of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most prominent leader of the American civil rights movement, on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a march by striking sanitation workers. In response to King’s death, more than 100 American inner cities exploded in rioting, looting, and violence. -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union’s action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist bloc. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The Democratic Convention of 1968 was held August 26-29 in Chicago, Illinois. As delegates flowed into the International Amphitheater to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo. -
Election of Nixon
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. -
Nixon Visits China
In an amazing turn of events, President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. Nixon’s historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Vietnam War. On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
In late April 1975, the outskirts of Saigon were reached by the North Vietnamese Army. On April 29th, the United States knew that their token presence in the city would quickly become unwelcome, and the remaining Americans were evacuated by helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. -
SDI Annouced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
For the first time in eight years, the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States hold a summit conference. Meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. -
Tear down this Wall
U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
On the evening of November 9, 1989, East Germany announced an easing of travel restrictions to the west, and thousands demanded passage through the Berlin Wall. Faced with a growing demonstration, East German border guards allowed citizens to cross.
