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Tear down this wall’ speech
Reagan called for the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open the Berlin Wall, which had separated West and East Berlin since 1961.[1][2] The name is derived from a key line in the middle of the speech: "Mr. Gorbachev...Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" There is debate as to how much influence if any, the speech had in the wall coming down. -
Alger Hiss case - * (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II. -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution started march 8th 1917. This was when peasants and working-class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. The people executed the Zarr and his family because of unfair treatment. established a communist government. -
NATO - * (Berlin Airlift)
On 26 June 1948 Western allies started a massive airlift to counter the Berlin blockade imposed by the Soviets. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April. -
Potsdam Conference
Jul 17, 1945 – Aug 2, 1945 The Potsdam Conference, was a Conference held near Berlin, July 17-August 2, 1945. The Potsdam Conference was the last of the Big Three meetings during World War II. Then On July 26, the leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan, concealing the fact that they had privately agreed to let Japan retain its emperor. -
Atomic Bomb
On August 6, 1945, during World War II America dropped the atomic bomb. B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. tomic bombings killed between 90,000 and 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000 and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. -
Long Telegram
In February 1946, Kennan authored a lengthy analysis called the Long Telegram. Keenan took the opportunity to offer a perceptive to a wide range of methods and motives of Soviet communism and how the United States should respond. Keenan suggested Containment became the keystone of America’s Cold War policies. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was a political and military ideological barrier made by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and it's dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. This was a form of containment because communist and noncomunist supporters were separated. -
Iron Curtain (Containment)
The Iron Curtain was a military and ideological barrier made by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal itself off. The Berlin Wall in 1961 restored them. During the Cold War the Iron Curtain extended to the airwaves. The attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency-funded Radio Free Europe (RFE) to provide listeners behind the Curtain with uncensored news were met with efforts by communist governments to jam RFE’s signal. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a 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. -
Molotov Plan - x
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. Refusal to accept aid from the Marshall Plan or allow any of their satellites because of the belief it might make the Soviets weak. one of the goals of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism. -
Rosenberg trial - * (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies. He was U.S. citizen and electrical engineer. In 1951, Julius and his wife Ethel were tried and convicted of espionage for providing the Soviet Union with classified information. They were executed in 1953. Their trial remains controversial today. -
HollyWood Ten
10 Holly Wood stars were subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October. The contempt citation included a criminal charge, which led to a highly publicized trial and an eventual conviction with a maximum of one year in jail in addition to a $1,000 fine. -
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. -
Truman Doctrine
March 12, 1947 The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. aid countries trying to resist communist take over, Greece and Turkey. -
Marshall Plan - * (Truman Doctrine)
April 3, 1948 The Truman Doctrine was extended to become the basis of the Cold War policy of containment. The Marshall Plan was the Truman Administration's plan to rebuild war-torn Europe to prevent the spread of communism, global trade, and free markets helped to encourage European peace. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. April third, 1948Marshall plan allowed and the United States gave over $12billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. Truman said the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. -
The Berlin Blockade
June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin. The Berlin Blockade was not successful and made more problems. -
Berlin Blockade - * (Berlin Airlift)
June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949 The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The United States and the United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. -
Alger Hiss case - * (Alger Hiss & The Rosenbergs)
The battle over the Hiss case continued long after the guilty verdict was handed down. Though many believed that Hiss was a much-maligned official who became a victim of the anticommunist hysteria of the late-1940s, others felt strongly that he was a lying communist agent. Until his death at the age of 92 on November 15, 1996, Hiss never deviated from his claim of innocence. -
Nato
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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift, June 24, 1948 – May 12, 1949 The United States and the 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. -
First Soviet bomb test (Berlin Airlift)
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb. It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to have nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. Previously, the United States had used two atomic bombs on Japan to cause them to surrender during World War II. The impact that the possession of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union had upon the United States was that it caused Americans to question their own safety. -
Chinese Communist Revolution - * (Berlin Airlift)
The Chinese Communist Revolution, led by the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong, resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China, on 1 October 1949. The revolution began in 1946 after the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945 and was the second part of the Chinese Civil War 1945–49. In China, the revolutionary period is known as the War of Liberation -
Korean War
World War II divided Korea into a Communist, northern half and an American-occupied southern half, divided at the 38th parallel. The Korean War (1950-1953) began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
August 20, 1968, 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 bloc. -
SDI announced
Announcement. On 23 March 1983, Reagan announced SDI in a nationally televised speech, stating "I call upon the scientific community who gave us nuclear weapons to turn their great talents to the cause of the cold war. SDI - a strategic defensive initiative
170 billion dollars for apparently a defensive system to protect from nukes etc. not actually possible yet. -
Reagan elected
The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. wanted to confront the soviet union. The election was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
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.
World afraid of nuclear war, so they talked ed about it. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall), 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 afterward, the wall comes down.
