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Russian Communist Revolution
n 1917, two revolutions completely changed the fabric of Russia. First, the February Russian Revolution toppled the Russian monarchy and established a Provisional Government. Then in October, a second Russian Revolution placed the Bolsheviks as the leaders of Russia, resulting in the creation of the world's first communist country. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast Versailles Palace near Paris - hence its title - between Germany and the Allies. -
League of Nations
The League of Nation's task was simple - to ensure that war never broke out again. After the turmoil caused by the Versailles Treaty, many looked to the League to bring stability to the world.The League of Nations was to be based in Geneva, Switzerland. This choice was natural as Switzerland was a neutral country and had not fought in World War One. No one could dispute this choice especially as an international organisation such as the Red Cross was already based in Switzerland. -
Chinese Communist Revolution
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Nuremberg Trials
24 major political and military leaders of Nazi Germany were brought to trial before the International Military Tribunal. -
Iron Curtain Speech
This symbolized the ideological conflict and the physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.it was a second warefare meeting. -
Fall of Berlin wall
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SALT1/11
SALT stands for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.Strategic Arms was a euphemism for nuclear weapons. SALT I was essentially a moratorium on building certain kinds of systems or on building more of them. SALT II actually called for reductions in the number of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the two sides. -
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization established on 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following World War II to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The UN Headquarters resides in international territory in New York City, -
Baruch Plan
The Baruch Plan was a proposal by the United States government, written largely by Bernard Baruch but based on the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC) in its first meeting in June 1946. The United States, Great Britain and Canada called for an international organization to regulate atomic energy and President Truman responded by asking Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson and David E. Lilienthal to draw up a plan. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR – though the country was not mentioned by name – that the USA would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority. -
Marshall Plan
Eurpe economicaly depresse after WW11
Communist parties appeal to people in hard times.
U.S fears growth of communism and needs markets for their goods . -
General Assembly
the first General Assembly of the United Nations met in London in January 1946, and created the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. Part of their charge was to eliminate all weapons of mass destruction, including the atomic bomb. -
Berlin Airlift
. In June 1948, the Russians–who wanted Berlin all for themselves–closed all highways, railroads and canals from western-occupied Germany into western-occupied Berlin. -
NATO Created
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO is an interngovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949. -
Korean War
This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
Joseph McCarthy Speech
Joseph gave a speech that gave over 200 known communist names. -
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. -
Sputnik Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first artifical Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it in an elliptical low Earth orbit. -
Bay of pigs invasion
The first part of the plan was to destroy Castro’s tiny air force, making it impossible for his military to resist the invaders. April 15, 1961, a group of Cuban exiles took off from Nicaragua in a squadron of American B-26 bombers, painted to look like stolen Cuban planes, and conducted a strike against Cuban airfields.. -
Building of berlin wall begins
The end of World War II in 1945 saw Germany divided into four Allied occupation zones. Berlin, the German capital, was likewise divided into occupation sectors, even though it was located deep within the Soviet zone. -
Berlin Wall
the berlin wall was a wall that baracated many people and protected others to. the berlin wall was the biggest wall in the world and constructed by the germans. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The 13-day confirmation between The Soviet Union and Cuba on on side and the United States on the other. First documented instance of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). -
U.S sends troops to vietnam
On March 8, 1965, 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam.. -
Lech Walesa
In 1978 with other activists he began to organise free non-communist trade unions and took part in many actions on the sea coast. He was kept under surveillance by the state security service and frequently detained. -
Non-Proliferation Agreement
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is an international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first spacefligth that landed humans on the moon. Neil Amerstrong and Buzz Aldrin on july 20, 1969. -
Kent State Shooting
On May 4, l970 members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon Marines Association is a public benefit / nonprofit corporation whose members consist of United States Marines serving at U.S. missions in the Republic of Vietnam during the spring of 1975. Our members served at the U.S. consulates in the cities of Da Nang, Nha Trang, Bien Hoa and Can Tho as well as the U.S. Embassy and other installations (the Defense Attaché Office / Military Assistance Command Vietnam complex) in South Vietnam’s capital city of Saigon. -
Fidel Castro Proclaims Communist Cuba
Cuban communist revolutionary and politican who was prime minister of cuba from 1959 to 1976. The fundamental question of when Fidel Castro became a communist has had a profound and enduring impact on the foreign policy of the United States. -
Margaret thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century and is the only woman to have held the office. A Soviet journalist called her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. -
Pope john paul 11
John Paul’s struggle against communism from his early days as a Polish bishop to his election as Pope and his orchestration of a nonviolent conclusion to the Cold War. -
Soviets invade Afghanistan
The Soviet war lasted 9 years going from 1979 to 1989. The Soviet Union invaded afghanistan to spread communism. -
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a politician and reformist leader of the People's Republic of China who, after Mao's death led his country towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (the highest position in Communist China), he nonetheless was the "paramount leader" of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992. -
START I/II
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
