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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 and eventually led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Iron Curtain
The name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War 2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and U.S President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of World War 2. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The U.S dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing at least 129,000 people. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
Molotov Plan
A system created by the soviet union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers and directors who appeared before the HUAC. They refused to answer questions of their possible communist affiliations and after spending time in prison they were mostly blacklisted by the Hollywood Studios. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the World War 2, U.S, British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the U.S gave money in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War 2. -
Berlin Blockade
One of the first major international crises of the cold war where the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization created by the U.S, Canada and many Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union exploded it's first atomic bomb and it came in a shock to the U.S because they were not expecting it. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet Spy and convicted of prejury in connection with this charge. -
Korean War
The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States came to aid South Korea while China came to aid North Korea. -
Rosenburg Trial
Julius Rosenburg was arrested a few weeks after the Korean War began. The legal charge of which they were convicted was vague. They were held captive for giving the so called "secret of the atomic bomb" to the USSR. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Decisive engagement in the first Indochina War that consisted of a struggle between French and Viet Minh forces for a small mountain outpost. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, in order to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina -
Geneva Conference
A conference among many nations in order to settle issues resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
A series of hearings held by the United States Senate for the purpose of investing conflicting accusations between the U.S Army and the Senator. -
Warsaw Pact
A political and Military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
U2 Incident
A spy plane that was shot down by a Soviet surface. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
14,000 Cuban exiles launched an invasion on the South Coast of Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confederation between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning American ballistic missile deployment. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas riding in a motorcade in Dealey Plaza. He was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding with his wife. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed this authorizing the president to take any measures that he believed were necessary to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in South Asia -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was part of a strategic bombing campaign and the military aircraft attacked targets all around North Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was an activist leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. James was a conformed racist and small time criminal, he later confessed to this crime in March. -
Riots of Democratic convention
Democratic convention contributed to the tense national mood and when Martin Luther King was assassinated riots broke out. -
Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive was one of the largest campaigns of the Vietnam War of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy (presidential candidate) was shot and killed in a Los Angeles hotel room after winning the California presidential primaries. He died the next day in the hospital. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Election of Nixon
The United States Presidential election was held on November 5, 1968. The republic nominee won the election over the democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visiting China marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its foes, and the visit ended 25 years of separation between the two sides. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Nixon of the U.S ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. -
Reagan Elected
Reagan was elected twice as President of the United States. -
SDI announced
SDI was a proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks-as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. -
"Tear down this Wall" speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete barrier that physically divided Berlin. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's republic. -
Assassination of Diem
Diem was a south Vietnamese Politician and after constant Buddhist protests and non-violent resistance, he was assassinated.
