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Russian Revolution
The russian revolution was started by heavy military setbacks. So the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd. This took place in 1917- 1905. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was accused of being a commie by Whittaker chambers. Alger was almost free but Richerd Nixion fond copies of documents that commie made and was charged with perjury. -
Potsdam Conference
President Herry Truman and Winston Churchill sat down with Joseph Stalin to talk about political freedom for where the occupied in Germany. But Stalin had other plans. The meeting was Jul 17, 1945 – Aug 2, 1945. -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The atomic bomb was used to win the war with the Japanese and hopefully scar Stalin. But all it did was make things wors with Stalin. The first bomb was dropped Aug 6, 1945, not long after the scend one was dropped Aug 9, 1945 -
Long Telegram
George Kennan Embassy official sent a telegram to the U.S. Talking about what the soviets are doing and how the U.S. can contain the soviets. It was sent on February 22nd, 1946. -
NATO
The N.A.T.O. is the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. in 1946 -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a buffer zone where the soviets are trying to keep them where they are. countries that are behind the iron curtain are Poland, Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the Soviet Union. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the Soviet Union's version of the Marshall Plan. What it did was to provide aid to rebuild the countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 was ten producers, directors, and screenwriters that were accused of being commies. They refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist. each man was found guilty and sentenced to spend a year in prison and pay a $1,000 fine. 1947. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a speech that Truman said to help with containment. It said that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from the soviets. This was March 29, 1947 -
Berlin Airlift
It was a military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin over the Berlin blockade. The United States and the United Kingdom were who brought food and other needed goods. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was made to help rebind European countries that suffered from WW2. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was made by the soviets to limit what limit the ability of France. After a while, the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin. -
Hungarian Revolution
The revolution was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's. It started with student protest and this attracted thousands as they marched through central Budapest to the Hungarian Parliament.Then a sooting killing a student making it bigger. Thousands organized themselves into militias, battling the ÁVH and Soviet troops.The 10 November Over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict, and 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees and a soviet government took over -
First Soviet bomb test
The first Soviet bomb test was called the First Lightning. The Soviet intelligence got rough blueprints of the first U.S. atomic device. This allowed them to make an atomic bomb. August 29, 1949, was when First Lightning was set off. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution started by Mao Zedong a communist. That fight the Chinese government for a decade until 500mil Chinese where communist. 1 October 1949 was when Mao stared the Revolution -
korean war
The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. The United States came to the aid of South Korea. -
Rosenberg trial
Rosenberg's trial was two people that were accused of passing boom secrets to commies. The evidence showed that they played a small part and was sentenced to the electric chare -
Army-McCarthy hearings
McCarthy claimed to have a lest of 205 commits working in the state department for political gain. This scared people at first but after a while, people thought it was not true. And this stared the Army-McCarthy hearings. And the showed that he was a lier.1954. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact was the soviet union's way to combat "NATO".But it is also considered to have been motivated by soviet union desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. It was founded may 14, 1955 -
U2 Incident
U2 Incident was when a United States U2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The pilot was Francis Gary Powers. -
Berlin Wall
The Communist government of East Germany built a wall separating East and West Berlin. the wall was built to keep the country's people in. But the Soviets and East German government said it was to keep capitalism out. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an invasion of Cuba. Called the sea of piggs because that what the landing zone was called is called. The Bay of Pigs invasion was unuseful because of no air and naval support. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was created by the U.S when they let the soviet union into Cuba and put nuclear weapons on it and it was too close to the U.S. Thing got so heated that the U.S and the soviet union had so many nuclear weapons pointed at each other that it would destroy the world -
Assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States was shot and killed on elm street in Dallas, Texas by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald from a nearby building. November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
On August 20, 1968, The Invasion of Czechoslovakia was led by the Soviet Union who led Warsaw Pact troops officially known as Operation Danube. The reason for this was to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. The Soviet Union's action successfully but it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist. -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit China in 1972 to improve relations with the Soviet Union and the reason for opening up China was for the U.S. to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union ending the Vietnam War was a particularly important factor -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States (1981–89) know for his conservative Republicanism. The election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
SDI announced
On 23 March 1983, Reagan announced SDI in a nationally televised speech. It was made to shoot down nuclear bombs in space. In the end, Polyus failed to reach orbit and quickly broke apart. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. To hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
On this day in 1987, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the wall that divided Communist East Germany from the western enclave in Berlin. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” led to the wall's fall in 1989. Oct 30, 2014 -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
at 10:45 p.m.on 9 November, Harald Jäger, the commander of the border crossing yielded, allowing for the guards to open the checkpoints and allowing people through with little or no identity checking. shortly after the tear down this wall.
