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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was one of the main events with the cold war. This revolution was one of the first successful communist revolutions in the world. This caused worry and conflict between the U.S and other countries because of the huge differences. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the non physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
The Potsdam Conference
The potsdamn conference is very important because 3 of the major world leader got together to talk about the post war territories and which leader poses the different parts of Germany, They also talked about post war boundaries, winning the war with Japan and securing a long lasting peace with Europe -
The Atomic Bombs
The atomic bombs were a huge reason the U.S won WW2. The had struck much fear into Japan which forced them to surrender -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy which was used to contain the Soviet Union expansion. Later pledges to help Turkey and Greece. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the 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. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in espionage in 1950 -
The Berlin Blockade
The soviet union surrounded the western allies area in response to them creating a new currency. They later sent in planes for months into the blocked area to give supplies. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The U.S sent lots of planes that gave Berlin many supplies to keep the city stable. -
NATO
An intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty -
Holly Wood 10
many members of Hollywood were caused of being a communist,each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
The Korean War
When North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states -
Rosenberg trial
Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. His wife was also convicted as well. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program, this scared america because the U.S thought they wouldn't find out how to use bombs until 3 years later, they discovered some spies from the soviet union that were sharing top secret documents. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
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 -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
This was a confrontation of the first Indochina countries, between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. it was used to settle the issues between the Korean war and the first Indochina wars as well. -
the warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution remained communist for many years but as time came on many people wanted to begin fighting for their freedom which caused this to come from October to november -
U2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. This caused rivals between the U.S president and the soviet union leader. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
1,500 Cuban exiles trained and financed by the CIA launched an ill-fated invasion of Cuba from the sea in the Bay of Pigs. Cuban missiles were launched on south coast of Cuba, the mission was a failure. -
Berlin Wall
East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin from refuges trying to get on the other side away from communists. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis is when the soviet leader and the president of the U.S came very close to starting a nuclear conflict between each other. -
Assassination of Diem
President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of south Vietnamese soldiers -
Assassination of JFK
President Kennedy was assassinated while riding a presidential motorcade through dallas Texas. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia approved by congress. Other wise known as the "Blank check". -
Operation Rolling Thunder
It was also known as carpet bombing where america wanted to demonstrate their air supremacy on Vietnam, they tried to bomb every inch to get rid of everyone and demolish everything. -
Tet Offensive
A series of major attacks by northern communist forces in the Vietnam War. Weakened the U.S and their supply systems. -
Assassination of MLK
The civil rights leader Martin Luther King jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968 by James Ray -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy was shot at a hotel in Los Angeles being a presidential candidate, by Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was when five countries invaded Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary- the warsaw pact -
Riots of Democratic convention
The Riots of Democratic convention were basically riots wanting peace, the president nominee was Hubert Humphrey and the VP nominee was Edmund Muskie.Many people disagreed with these nominees and the messages they were sending. The people wanted peace not war. -
Election of Nixon
1968 was the 46th presidential election, the former vice president Nixon won the candidacy. -
kent state
Shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits China is when president Nixon visited China to show peaceful relation after years of aggression towards each other. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Ceasefire in Vietnam was when president Nixon decided to ceasefire of aerial bombings for 60 days on Vietnam hoping to release U.S troops and prisoners. Aiming to end the longest war. -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of siagon is when Northern Vietnam captured and invaded the capital of southern Vietnam. This caused southern Vietnam to surrender. Which basically ended the war -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan was elected as the 49th president in 1980 and defeated jimmy carter. -
SDI announced
SDI (strategic defensive initiative) which was also known as "star wars". This is when president Reagan claimed that the U.S could shoot lazer beams from satellites to shoot down any enemy missiles from the soviet union. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
This conference was between president Reagan and the Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. They talked about business and became somewhat friends after getting to know each other. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
President Reagan made a speech and demanded Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from west and east. It was then taken down and they were united.
