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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution shaped the country to what it is today. They over through the Tsarists Autocracy, witch led to the rise of the Soviet Union, and Communism. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was classifies research and development that was authorized by Josephs Stalin, to develop nuclear weapons in WWII. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a blockade set up by the soviet union, they took over countries to make sure that Russia would not be attacked without them knowing. They made all of the countries that they took communist to make sure that they would not go against them, and fight back. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was when the three leaders met with one another. Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman, they all met to agree on how to take out Germany and Hitler, from taking over all of Europe. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
The United States of America was at war with Japan, and they had made a new weapon of deconstruction, called the A-Bomb or Atomic Bomb. They used two of them on Japan one in Hiroshima on the 6th of August and one on Nagasaki on the 9th as well in 1949 to end the war between us. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was made on March 12th in 1947, it was made to counter all of the Soviet geopolitical expansion during the cold war. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan is when America gave aid to western Europe in witch they gave them over 12 billion dollars, to rebuild western European economies after the end of WWII. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the fist major crises of the Cold War when the soviet Union blocked the western Allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin sectors under western control. -
NATO
NATO or, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. The North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 is a 1950 documentary about each member of the Hollywood 10 that made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism. -
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. The united states supported,South Korea while the USSR supported the North, this was a cause of the Cold War. -
Khrushchev Takes over
Nikita Khrushchev took over the USSR after the powerful leader Joseph Stalin died and Khrushchev had to go through the cold war, and the Cuban Missile crisis. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower's massive retaliation Policy
Eisenhower's massive retaliation policy, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in witch one attacks the other then they have a much greater force, when they strike back. -
Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, also known as the Treaty of Friendship, cooperation and help, it was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of central and eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was over 20 years long , from the first of November of 1955 to April 30th 1975 the american troops participated in the longest US combat force. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic, and its Soviet-imposed policies it lasted from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
U-2 Incident
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory.The Plane was piloted by Francis Gary Powers. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba. The United States tried to invade but failed, Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.It was set up by the Soviet Union to block off Eastern Germany from Western Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union took over Cuba and put missile on it pointed at the USA. -
Detente under Nixon
President Nixon Formed this Detente to make eastern and western Germany to get along again and that the communist soviet union would leave and tear down the wall -
The Reagan doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy made by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War -
Reagan's Berlin Wall
U.S. 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. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On June 13 1990 the Berlin Wall was taken down after it was up for over 27 years people could finally walk onto the other side of Germany.
