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The Russian Revolution
The war started on March 8, 1917 and then it ended on June 16, 1923. The Russian army was in a state of mutiny after the first world war. The provisional government was taking over by the soviets a group of soldiers and urban industrial workers -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a boundary dividing Europe into two areas. It was to block itself from satellite states. It wanted to cut itself from western civilization. It ended in 1991 at the end of the cold war. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam conference was to see how to administer Germany it also talked about postwar order and peace. It started on July 17, 1945 and ended August 2, 1945. -
Atomic Bomb
The United States army detonated 2 atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It ended on August 9th and it was conformed by all of the United Nations. -
Long Telegram
It was a review of how the Soviet Union saw the world. The facts they got affected the world and the United States. It took information and showed it and said what they should do during the cold war. -
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. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood Ten, in U.S. history, 10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy that was made to counter Soviet Union expansion. It was announced to congress by Harry Truman. it was developed on July 4th 1948. -
Berlin Blockade
It was an attempt to to limit ability to France by US. It also blocked Great Britain and United States to get to there sectors of Berlin -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars -
Berlin Lift
The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. The crisis ended on May 12, 1949, when Soviet forces lifted the blockade on land access to western Berlin. -
Alger Hiss case
He was an American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in 1948, but statutes of limitations had expired for espionage. He was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The Cold War was in full swing, as the Soviet Union was rising to power, capturing satellite countries. -
First soviet bomb test
It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. The Soviets successfully tested their first nuclear device -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Revolution of 1949. On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China -
Rosenberg Trial
The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were accused of selling Nuclear information to the Soviet Union. -
Korean War
began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. As Kim Il-sung's North Korean army, armed with Soviet tanks, quickly overran South Korea, the United States came to South Korea's aid. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–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. -
Warsaw Pact
Treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
U2 Incident
confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. -
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. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated on November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. while riding in a motorcade in Dallas during a campaign visit. Kennedy’s motorcade was turning past t -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
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 resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation. -
Reagan elected
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th presidential election. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
SDI Announced
It was designed to shoot down SDI in space. In the end, Polyus failed to reach orbit and quickly broke apart. When reformer Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985, he began to drastically cut Soviet military spending. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
in Geneva, to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Tear down this wall speech
A speech delivered by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987. -
Fall of the Berlin wall
On 9 November 1989, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards.
