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Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy is 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. -
The 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 19th century -
The Potsdam Conference
The potsdam Conference was important because 3 of the world leaders got together and talked about post war territories and which leader would poses each part of Germany. They also talked about post war boundaries, winning the war with Japan, and securing a lasting peace in Europe. -
The Atomic bombs
The Atomic bombs were a huge reason the U.S. won WWII. They struck fear into the Japanese and forced them to surrender. -
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. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were 10 actors that were accused of being communists. They weren't communists but everybody seemed to believe that they were because of propaganda.z -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was used to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was used to stop the spread of communism. -
The Marshall plan
The Marshall plan provided aid by giving $12 billion dollars to places destroyed by WW2 to stop the spread of communism from Russia. -
The Molotov plan
Created by the Soviets to provide aid to The countries in Eastern Europe that didn't like to Soviet Union -
The Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was accused of leaking the atomic bomb plans to the soviet union. He was then put on trial and he was sent to the electric chair to die. -
The Berlin Blockaid
The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control -
The Berlin Airlift
British pilots flew food and supplies to Berlin by planes after the soviets blockaded Berlin and cutted off their food and supplies. -
NATO
NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created as a defence for the small places in Europe that were going to be taken over by Communism. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The soviet bomb test was a very scary day for the U.S. because the soviets tested their nuke and it was successful. -
The Rosenburg Trial
The Rosenburg's were a couple that was accused of sending the soviets the codes for the atomic bomb. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 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 -
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 -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
First Indochina War between the French Union's between Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War -
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 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
U-2 Incident, (1960), 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 Incident
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
The Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a huge part of history. The Soviet Union tried to set up camp on Cuba so that they were close enough to attack the U.S. -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngo Dình Diem, the president of South Vietnam, marked the culmination of a successful CIA-backed coup d'etat led by General Duong Van Minh. -
Assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, 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
Another name for carpet bombing. Rolling thunder was carpet bombing with napalm. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and north Vietnam forces. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was murdered at Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by a guy named James Ray -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, officially known as Operation Danube, was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary – on the night of 20–21 August 1968 -
Riots of Democratic convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. ... The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4. -
Election of Nixon
The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre, were the shootings on May 4, 1970, 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
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to 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 China after years of diplomatic isolation -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Vietnam War. On January 15, 1973, President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. The decision came after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the National Security Affairs advisor to the president, returned to Washington from Paris, France with a draft peace proposal. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975 -
Reagan elected
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
SDI announced
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was held on November 19 and 20, 1985, 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 since 1961. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. 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.
