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Russian Revolution
The Russan revolution was a large revolt against the government in 1917. During the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the 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. This was the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting between the three larges powers in the world at the time. Stalin, Churchill, and Truman all met near Berlin to disscus war punishments and how to go at rebuilding germany. -
The Atomic Bomb
The US had a secret program named the Manhattan Project. In this program, many scientists began working on splitting an atom. Albert Einstein was a large motivation for American to create the Bomb. Once created and testes the US dropped 2 bombs. One on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was a plan so America could aid countries in there attempts to stay away from communism. The US gave over 13 billion dollars to aid counties. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a document written by President Truman stating that the US will attemp to discontunue the spread of communism throught eroupe and the world. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was when the Soviets attempted to block Berlin from the rest of the world. They were trying to kill the germans for what they had done to Russia. SO America and other allies dropped shipments of food and supplies to the starving Germans. -
The Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were a small group of actors, writer, and directors who would not give into the mass hysteria of the search for communism. Hollywood in the 50s was being attacked because the government thought that they were using the media to promote communism. they interrogated many people but the Hollywood 10 didn't talk and were put in prisin becsue of it. -
Alger Hiss Case
In 1948 ex-communist Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss who worked in the state department of being a Soviet spy. Alger Hiss was later convicted for being a spy. This led for fear in the hearts of americans. It made the people think that commies were in our backyard. -
The Berlin Airlift
After WW2 the Soviets Took control of Berlin and Blocked it off to starve the Germans. So to keep the Germans alive the allies flew low into Berlis to drop supplies and candy to give hope and keep them alive. We lost men flying into germany. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The SOviet Bomb Test was as it sounds there foirst succsesfull nuclear bomb test. This was a huge suprise to america and other allied countires for we all thought that the soviets were not that close to creating a bomb. -
The Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenbergs were a family with deep secrets. The husband was sending classified information to the Soviet Union. Both Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed for sending secrets to soviet union even when the government didint have enough evidence to convict them. -
The Korean War
After WW2 the North Koreans were affected by the Russians to jump towards communism. North Korea then invades South Korea who at the time was being led against communism. The Americans came in to help the south Koreans fight off the communist North Koreans. Then China got involved with the North Koreans. The Battle ended in 1953 when an armistice was signed to separate the county into a north and south. -
The Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings dominated national television from A subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Government Operations was seeking to learn whether Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had used improper influence to win preferential treatment for David Schine, a former member of the senator’s staff who had been drafted. McCarthy counter-charged that the army was trying to derail his embarrassing investigations of army security practices through blackmail and intimidation. -
The Geneva conference
The Geneva conference was a meeting between the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, France, and Great Britain came together in April 1954 to try to resolve several problems related to Asia. The French and Vietnamese came to an agreement. The French then pulled out of Vietnam. and Vietnam would be divided at the 17 parallel. -
The Battle Of Dien Bien Phu
Battle Of Dien Bien Phu was a large conflict between the French and Vietnamese soldiers for a small mountain outpost. The French placed themselves in a valley to advance and protect the spot from the Vietnamese. But the Vietnam soldiers surrounded the French and defeated them. This was a deciding batte to a 8 year long war -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, so named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. THe pact was basicly an alliance to grow communism against the united states. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The problems in Hungary began in October 1956, when thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom from Soviet oppression. In response, Communist Party officials appointed Imre Nagy, a former premier who had been dismissed from the party for his criticisms of Stalinist policies, as the new premier. -
The U2 Incident
Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top-secret mission: to overfly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. His fate and that of the entire U2 program remained a mystery for days. The story of the U2 incident; its prologue and aftermath reveals one of the most fascinating and compelling stories of the cold war. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempted attack on Fidel Castro in cuba. The Americans did not like his communists beliefs and so we attampted to take his life but failed due to lack of support. -
The Berlin Wall
By 1961, Cold War tensions over Berlin were running high again. For East Germans dissatisfied with life under the communist system, West Berlin was a gateway to the democratic West. Between 1949 and 1961, some 2.5 million East Germans fled from East to West Germany, most via West Berlin. To combat this the soviets created a wall to stop refugees from ecaping to the better west germany. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was during the cold war in a very tense time between Cuba and America. Cuba turned to work with the Soviets and let them hold nuclear silos on Cuba if the Soviets give them financial aid. The U.S was furious and threatened to attack Cuba and invade the country to drive the Soviets out. Later the Soviets and America came to an agreement. America would not invade Cuba if the Soviets pulled their nuclear silos out of Cuba. -
The Assassination Of Diem
President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam but also lead to political chaos in the nation. The United States subsequently became more heavily involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming an increasingly powerful threat. -
The Assassination OF JFK
First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, for a 10-mile motorcade through Dallas on November 22. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys waved at the large and enthusiastic crowds gathered along the parade route. As their car passed the Texas School Book Depository Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later, He was 46 -
The Tolkin Gulf Resolution
American boats were sailing near North Vietnam when they were attacked by the Vietnamese. So we sent another ship near North Vietnam and it was "Attacked". Which gave President Lyndon Johnson a blank check of sorts. The blank check gave Jhonson a way to enter conflict wthout a decleration of war. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was the vietcon launching a large assault on us forces during the Vietnam new year or Tet. The US ultimately won the conflict but it looked bad for us losing support from the people. The Vietcon won a sociological battle. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division. This was used during Vietnam. -
The Assassination Of MLK
Mertin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that shocked the community. MLK Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s. -
The 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. He died a day later. -
The 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 -
The Riots of Democratic Convention
On this day in 1968, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
The Election Of Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Nixon nor Humphrey received more than 50 percent of the popular vote; Nixon beat Humphrey by less than 500,000 votes. Nixon campaigned on a platform designed to reach the silent majority of the middle class and working-class Americans. many Americans, weary after years of antiwar and civil rights protests, were happy to hear of peace returning to their streets. -
Kent State
Four Kent State University students were killed and nine were injured on May 4, 1970, when members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd gathered to protest the Vietnam War. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia. In its immediate aftermath, a student-led strike forced the temporary closure of colleges and universities across the country -
Nixon Visits China
Improved relations with the Soviet Union and the PRC are often cited as the most successful diplomatic achievements of Nixon's presidency The reason for opening up China was for the U.S. to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. Resolving the Vietnam War was a particularly important factor. -
Ceasefire In Vietnam
Ceasefire in Vietnam was achieved when the US and Vietnam came to an agreement. The Agreement was that North Vietnam would not invade the south and the south would not invade North Vietnam. The cease-fire began on time, but both sides violated it. 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. -
The Fall Of Saigon
The Fall Of Saigon was when the north vietcon and North Vietnam invaded the South Vietnamese occupied capital Saigon. The South Vietnam were forced to surrender to the communist North Vietnam. While the invasion was in effect the US was evacuating the South Vietnamese in helicopters. -
Reagan Is Elected
Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. Due to the rise of conservativism following Reagan's victory, some historians consider the election to be a realigning election that marked the start of the "Reagan Era". Reagan campaigned for increased defense spending, implementation of supply-side economic policies, and a balanced budget -
SDI Is Announced
President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed "Star Wars." The project was sounded crazy at the time and many believed it was impossible. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union held a summit conference, which took place in Geneva. President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, began their talks with an hourlong exchange Little of substance was accomplished. Six agreements were reached, ranging from cultural and scientific exchanges to environmental issues. -
Tear Down This Wall
Tear down this wall is a line from a speech made by US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
The Fall Of Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. 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.
