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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was the first successful communist revolution in the world. It laid the groundwork for the differences that would become the Cold War in the 20th Century -
Potsdam Congress
The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union leaders meet to discuss the future of Germany, Post-war boundaries, winning the war with Japan and securing lasting peace in Europe -
The Atomic Bomb
Dropping the atomic bonds upset the Soviet Union because the US used in the war. The Atomic Bomb is useless if every country has them because a standing army s no longer needed. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a term used to describe the border between East and West Germany, in which capitalism was on one side and communism was on the other. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from being overtaken by a communist country -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative which gave 12 billion dollars of economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe. The US relied on them for certain goods and resources -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was an Soviet initiative for economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe. -
Hollywood 10
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, and, after spending time in prison for contempt of Congress -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union started the Berlin Blockade which stopped everyone from coming in or out of East and West Germany. The US supplied Food, Water, and supplies for 15 months with Airdrops. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was in response to the Blockade. American pilots flew at low altitude dropping food and resources to the people in Berlin. This last over a year -
NATO
NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. -
Soviet Bomb Test
A program passed by the Soviet Union ruler Joseph Stalin to test Atomic Bombs during World War II -
Korean War
he Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began 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 in 1948. -
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 1950. -
Rosenberg Trail
A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union. Some have argued that the Rosenberg's were innocent victims of McCarthy era hysteria against communists. -
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. The Army accused Chief Committee Counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's. -
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 revolutionaries -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Uprising, was a nationwide revolution against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 Incident
An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month. -
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. The attack was an utter failure. Fidel Castro had been a concern to U.S. policymakers since he seized power in Cuba with a revolution -
Berlin Wall
A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. The eastern, or Russian, sector became the capital of communist East Germany. -
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. It was a proxy conflict around Cuba. It happened when the Soviet Union began building missile sites in Cuba -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was a Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam, and then served as President of South Vietnam from 1955 until he was deposed and killed during the 1963 military coup. -
Assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the United States 2nd Air Division, U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
The tet offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of MLK
an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. This would change how civil rights activist would go about it -
Assassination of RFK
RFK was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. Immediately after he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. Although the Soviet Union's action successfully halted the pace of reform in Czechoslovakia, it had unintended consequences for the unity of the communist block. -
Riots of Democratic convention
As delegates flowed into the International Amphitheatre to nominate a Democratic Party presidential candidate, tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets to rally against the Vietnam War and the political status quo. -
Election of Nixon
The 1968 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon, the 36th Vice President of the United States, began when Nixon, the Republican nominee of 1960, formally announced his candidacy following a year's preparation and five years' political reorganization following defeats in the 1960 presidential election -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings 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 by United States military forces. -
Nixon visits China
Nixon 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. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. all warring parties in the Vietnam War signed a ceasefire as a prelude to the Paris Peace Accord. -
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. This bombardment at the Tan Son Nhut Airport killed the last two American servicemen to die in Vietnam, Charles McMahon and Darwin Judge. -
Reagan elected
Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. ... Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild—the labor union for actors—where he worked to root out Communist influence. -
SDI announced
The SDI was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983 -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva conference was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Tear down this wall’ speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, calling for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
