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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution is when peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II.They were lead by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionists called the Bolsheviks. Then it soon Created the communist government called the Soviet Union. The new government took control of all industry and moved the Russian economy from a rural one to an industrial one. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference is the last conference of World War II held by "the big three" heads of state. Its consisted of Harry S. Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and soviet prime minister Joseph Stalin.They tales about the Council of foreign Ministers And a central Allied control Council for administration of Germany. It was held in Berlin. -
The Atomic Bombs
An American b-29 bomber dropped the worlds first Atomic bomb on A Japanese City Called Hiroshima, The explosion Wiped out 90% of the city, 80,000 people. Then 3 days later we also dropped another atomic bomb on Nagisaki, killing around 40,000 people. -
Long Telegram
George Kennan, the American charge d’affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain was a border created by the Soviet Unions for political, Military, and Ideological reasons. It was created after World War II to keep out the central European allies from open contact with the west and other non-communist areas. The word Iron curtain came into use in the 19th century when the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a speech in Missouri. -
Molotov Plan
system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. in other words it made it so if any country would be threatened by the communist Soviet union we would give support to them. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were ten motion picture producers,directors, and screenwriters who refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations,after spending time in prison for contempt of congress, they were blacklisted in Hollywood and most were never put back into Hollywood -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss is a Man who was a soviet spy during World War II.Alger was a State department official. He was convicted of perjury and he was in jail for 4 years. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan,also known as the European recovery program, was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade
The British Blockade is where the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of Germany into a single unit. The soviets protested by withdrawing from allied control council.The Soviet occupied forces in Berlin began to build a blockade in eastern Germany which consisted of rail,road,and water between Berlin and the west. The Soviets announced that the Allies no longer had any rights there. That's when Britain used air crafts to drop in supplies to the people who lived there. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was when the Soviets put up a blockade in est of Berlin. The United states begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens. The supplies sustained over 2 million people. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was led by the communist party of China and chairman Mao Zedong. It resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China. The revolution was the second part of the Chinese Civil War. -
NATO
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.it is an organization between U.S., Canada, Britain and other European countries who all agree to support one another when attacked. -
First Soviet bomb test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates their first atomic bomb. To test out the bomb the soviets built fake bridges and buildings to test it out on, also set out animals in cages to see how the radiation affect them. -
Rosenberg trial
The Rosenberg trial was between Ethel and Julius Rosenberg because they were selling the soviets nuclear secrets about the U.S. There was barley any evidence towards their guilt. The trial was for about a month. -
Korean War
The Korean war began the north Korean communist arm crossed the 38th parallel and invaded the non-communist south Korea. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Army-McCarthy hearings are series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee to investigate the 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 special treatment to David Schine. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad faith. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was a treaty of friendship between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe. it was signed in Warsaw, Poland. -
Hungarian Revolution
The revolt spread like wild fire, thousands of citizens formed militias and battled AVH. One student died and was wrapped in a flag and held above the crowd. -
U2 Incident
A U2 spy plane was shot down by Soviet defenses while survivalist equipment and Soviet military bases. Once the plane was shot down the pilot (Francis Gary Powers) was ejected and safely parachuted to the ground and then captured. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
A failed attempt at reversing the Cuban revolution; starting with a military invasion of North Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The wall cut off West Berlin from the surrounding East Germany. The wall included guard towers along with a large trench known as the "death strip". -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. Initiated by America's finding of the Soviets ballistic missile deployment of Cuba. This crisis almost started an all out nuclear war. -
Assassination of JFK
The assassination of JFK the injuries that Kennedy and Connally sustained were caused by Oswald's three rifle shots, but they also concluded that Kennedy was "probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy". -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw troops invaded Czechoslovakia. East German forces, except for a small number of specialists, did not participate in the invasion because they were ordered from Moscow not to cross the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's. Nixon's arrival in Beijing ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries and was the key step in normalizing relations between the U.S. and China. Nixon visited China to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. -
Reagan elected
Presidential election. Republican Ronald Reagan won the election in a landslide, receiving 489 electoral votes, defeating incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter, who received 49. Reagan received the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. Republican Congressman John B. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Also known as the Berlin Wall Speech, is a speech delivered by United States President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987. Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961 -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Brandenburg Gate in the Berlin Wall was opened on 22 December 1989. The demolition of the Wall officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in November 1991. The "fall of the Berlin Wall" paved the way for German reunification, which formally took place on 3 October 1990.
