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Russian Revolution
This was a pair of revolutions that occured in 1917. The February revolution was from March 8th to the 16th. The October revolution happened November 7th to the 8th. These revolutons led to the rise of the Soviet Union. -
Iron Curtain
It had divided the WARSAW Pact courties on the right and the NATO to the left. The boundry lasted from the end of World War 2 to the end of The Cold War.The east side was controlled by the Soviet Union and the west was mostly controlled by the United States. -
Potsdam Conference
The conference lasted until August 2, 1945 and included; USSR USA and UK. The gathered to discuss how they would control the defeated Nazi, Germany. They also discussed how they would make an order of post-war. -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States had dropped bombs respectfully at the end of the war on Japanes cities. These bombs were the only use of nuclear weapons in a war. The bombngs last until the 9th of August. -
Molotov Plan
This was a plan created by the Soviet Union to restore countries in Eastern Europe.It was the USSR's form of the 'Marshall Plan'. The countries that were being restored were not aloud to leave the Soviet control. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign poicy that was against the expansion of the Soviet Union in the Cold War. It was created by President Harry S. Truman. It was first announced on March 12, 1947 and was later finalized on July 12, 1948. -
Marshall Plan
It is officially named the European Recovery Program. Similar to the Molotov plan it was to help rebuild the western European countries. -
Berlin Blockade
This was the first major international crisi of The Cold War. The Soviet Union had blocked al enrty ways for the western European countries to get their supplies from the Allies. It lasted until May 12, 1949. -
Berlin Airlift
It was to carry supplies to the western counrties due to the cut-off from the Berlin Blockade. Many different Air Forces came together to deliver the goods. This lasted until September 30, 1949. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist. In front of the HUAC, Hiss claimed he was not. He was seen not guilty and was accused a second time and remained innocent. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military allinance between North American and European countries. It is a system of collective defense. -
Hollywood 10
It was a group of ten people associated with the filming buisness who were put in prision for trying to spread communism. -
Korean War
The war lasted until July 27, 1953. After the divison of Korea at the 38th parallel the North and South had became in conflict. The Soviet Union and China aided the North and the Unitied States and the United Nations gave aid to the South. -
Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, whom were both communists, were accused of having a connection of selling nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union after World War II. The couple were sentenced to death in the electric chair. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union ended up testing more than 400 nuclear weapons with the atomic bomb being just as powerful as the atomic bomb created in the United States. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle ended on May 7, 1954. It was the first battle of the Indochina War. It was between France and Viet Mihn. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
It was between the U.S. Army and U.S. Senetor Joesph McCarthy. -
Geneva Conference
It was a conference between some nations to settle the aftermath of the Korean War and the Indochina War. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense unit. It was set up up to defend against any outside enemy. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Incident
The USSR shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. -
Bay of Pigs Invansion
In 1961, The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba by the group Brigade. -
Berlin War
In 1961, the Berlin Wall was built. After disallowing free passage from West and East Berlin. Communist east side of Germany to the Capitalist west side of Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day uproar and conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was a political and military standoff between the two countries. -
Assassination of Diem
President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed by a group of soldiers that were tryng to cause political conflict. -
Assassination of JFK
In 1963, Dallas Texas, president Kennedy is killed as he happily rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The resolution authorized President Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States” by North Vietnam. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
It was supposed to sway North Veitnam to be anticommunism. -
Tet Offensve
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the Viet Cong against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army and the United States Armed Forces -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He had led many civil rights movents and fought very hard to get equal rights. -
Assassination of RFK
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for
President of the United States. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia began with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia's northern and western border regions. German leader Adolf Hitler's pretext for this action
was the alleged privations suffered by the ethnic German population living in those regions. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. He was the Republican nominee. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were the shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard during a mass protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. -
Nixon Visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's was an important strategic and diplomatic overture. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
South Vietnamese forces continued to take back villages
occupied by communists in the two days before the cease-fire deadline and the communists tried to capture
additional territory. -
Fall of Saigon
It was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's army of Vietnam. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 -
SDI Announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
It was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. It was between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. -
'Tear Down This Wall!' Speech
This speech by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin was about the Berlin Wall, which referred to by the President, was built by Communists in August 1961 to keep Germans from
escaping Communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
In 1989, after 30 years, the Berlin Wall was finally destroyed.
