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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The revolution was encouraged by Russian setbacks in WW2. -
Soviet Bomb Test (1940-49)
The Soviet atomic bomb was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during WW2. -
Iron Curtain
The national barrier separating the former soviet block and west prior to decline of communism that followed the political event in Eastern Europe -
Potsdam Conference
Was held at Cecilienhof, the home of the crown Prince Wilhem in Potsdam, occupied Germany, it was convenient because the conference failed to settle most of the important issues at hand. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
The United States detonated two powerful weapons over Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki to stop them from retaliating from taking back the land we took back from them. After the Atomic Bombs where dropped the United Kingdom made the Quebec Agreement. -
Truman Doctrine
An American policy that's purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War -
Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the United States gave over 2 billion dollars in economies after the end of WW2. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blockade the western allies railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an inner governmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries. -
Hollywood 10
An American 16mm short documentary film. Its convenience was to show what people were doing and the crime being caused. -
Korean War (1950-53)
The Korean war between the North and South Korea. The North want to spread communism all over the country but the South wanted a anti-communism country, so they went to war. The United States and the Soviet Union stepped in the stopped them by building a wall on the 38th parallel. The U.S helped rebuild the South and the Soviet Union helped rebuild the North. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy
Also known as a Massive response is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which which a state commits itself retaliate in much greater force in the even of an attack. -
Army- McCarthy Hearings
Where a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and US senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Warsaw Pact
Formally known as the Treaty of Friendship was collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw. (1955-91) -
Hungarian Revelation
Was nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian people's republic its soviet- imposed polices. -
U2 Incident
A spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Air force Defense while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
was a failed military invasion of Cuba under taken by the Central Intelligence Agency sponsored paramilitary group bridge. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete that physically and ideologically divided Berlin. (1961-89) -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Also known as the October Crisis of 1962, was a 13- day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba -
Khrushchev Takes Over
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev tried to take control of the Soviet Union, but got rejected. He became famous and mostly recognized for his rejection. After the quick execution engineered by him he engaged in power struggle. -
Detente Under Nixon
A name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and Soviet Union -
The Vitenam War
Also known as the Second Indigo China War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance war against America or simply the American war, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. -
The Reagan Doctrine
was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under "the Reagan" Administration to over whelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
"TARE DOWN THIS WALL!!!" -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The wall came down the people took it down
