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Russian Revolution
the russian revolution was an uprising that took power away from the tsarist autocracy, this event begins the start of the soviet unioun. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
One of the most famous orations of the Cold War. Former British prime minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union polices in Europe and declares "From stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic an iron curtain has descended across the continent. -
The Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy, created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. Announced by Truman on March 12, 1947, further development on July 12, 1948 when he pledge to contain Soviet threats from Greece and Turkey. -
Hollywood 10
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. These prominent screenwriters and directors, who became known as the Hollywood Ten, received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios, because they refused to answer the questions they were asked, under the protection of the 1st amendment. -
The Molotov Plan
A system created by the Soviet Union in 1948, in order to provide aid and rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over 12 million dollars (120 million dollars in U.S dollars as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economics after World War Two. -
The Berlin Blockade
An attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the availability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin which lay within Russian occupied East Germany. -
The Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss, was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union, the case was going to be dismissed based in lack of evidence, Richard Nixon pushed the issue and Hiss was convicted of prudery and sentenced to 5 years in prison -
The Berlin Act
At the end of the second world war, the United States, British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupations zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet controlled Eastern Germany. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
First Soviet nuclear test. Code named RDS-1 at the Semipalatinsk test site. -
China and Soviet Union Nuclear Test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the measure of the blast, they built bridges, buildings, ect to test the vicinity of the bomb. They also put animals in cages, to test radiation. -
The Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, and the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea. -
Rosenburg Case
The Rosenburg's were convicted for passing U.S bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to the electric chair. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
1st Geneva Conference
The Geneva conference was a gathering of many countries which followed the Korean war. The countries assembled on April 26th 1954 to discuss the restoration of peace in indochina. -
The Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indo -
The Army McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of it's European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. -
The Invasion of Hungary
A spontaneous national uprising that began twelve days before, in Hungary, is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country. -
The U2 Incident
The U-2 Incident. Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on April 17, 1961 -
The Berlin Wall
A barrier that divided Berlin. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, the wall completely cut off West Berlin from East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, and his powerful brother and adviser, Ngo Dinh Nhu, on November 2, 1963, was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot twice, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson announced that two days earlier, U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the US 2nd Air Division, US Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic North Vietnam from March 2, 1965 until November 2, 1968, during the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968, by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Assassination of MLK
James Earl Ray, a confirmed racist and small-time criminal, Ray began plotting the assassination of revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in early 1968. He shot and killed King in Memphis on April 4, 1968, confessing to the crime the following March. -
Assassination of RFK
RFK was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination by Shihan in June 1968. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 20, 1968 the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion for Czechoslovakia, to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. The invasion was a success and slowed down the pace of reform, but had consequences for the unity of communism. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
In 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State Shooting
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. -
Nixon visits China
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
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. -
Election of Ronad Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. He was elected in 1980 on November 4th. -
Star Wars
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. -
Tear Down This Wall Speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Government officials opened it in November 1989.
