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The Iron Curtain Speech
Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman created the Truman Doctrine stating that the United States would give economic, military, and political aid to any democratic nation under the threat from enemy forces. The Truman Doctrine was very successful and was added to in 1948. -
Hollywood ten hearing
In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, during its probe of alleged communist influence in the American motion picture business. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov plan was created by the Soviet Union in 1947 and was a system to help rebuild Eastern European countries economically and politically . The goal for the Soviet Union was to get it perfectly aligned so they would be completely under the soviets. -
The Marshall Plan
It was the official European recovery program. American gave over 12 billion dollars in aid to Europe. -
The Berlin Blockade
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. Eventually, the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin. -
The Alger Hiss case
The case against Hiss began in 1948, when Whittaker Chambers, an admitted ex-communist and an editor with Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was were the US and European military pilots would fly over the Berlin wall and drop relief packages down to the people being held hostage by the Soviet Union. The Berlin wall was torn apart nearly 30 years later and the two sides of Germany were once again reunited. -
NATO
NATO is the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is an intergovernmental military alliance base. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
At a secret test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, The Soviet Union Successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. It name was "Secrete Lightning". -
Soviet Union Tests First Atomic Bomb
On 29 August 1949, the Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test, code-named 'RDS-1', at the Semipalatinsk test site in modern-day Kazakhstan. The device had a yield of 22 kilotons. -
The Korean War (The Forgotten War)
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a planned out event in which the first Indochina War began . In late 1953, French forces occupied the Dien Bien Phu valley. One of the commanders for the Viet MInh, Vo Nguyen Giap amassed troops and placed artillery in caves of the mountains near the French Camps so they could see all their activity. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
He was infamous for his aggressive interrogations of suspected Communists, Joseph R. McCarthy earned more notoriety via these televised 1954 Congressional hearings. -
Geneva Conference
It was a conference to help resolve several problems in Asia. In included the war between the French and the Vietnamese in Indochina. Representatives form all over the world gathered to create the Geneva Conference. -
The Rosenberg Trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg where accused of being Soviet Spies and were prosecuted and found guilty. They received the death penalty. -
The Warsaw Pact
Seven European countries and the Soviet Union signed a treaty agreeing on a mutual deference organization. It Gave the Soviet Union the power in command over the armed forces of the member states. -
The Invasion of Hungary, 1956
A national uprising that lasted 12 days. Thousands were killed and more than half a million fled to other countries. -
The Invasion of Hungary, 1956
The Soviet Union rolled in to Budapest to finished them, once and for all. After ferocious street fighting and the Soviet strong army the Soviets victory ensued. -
Bay of Pigs
The city where the US attempted to launch there missiles. -
U2 incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
The Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Berlin Wall
The wall created by Hitler dividing Western and Eastern Germany. Where Western Germany thrived and where capitalists and Eastern Germany was suffering under the influence of communism. -
13 Days
13 days was the Cuban Missile Crisis.It was the nuclear war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Assassination of Diem
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, 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. -
Assassination of JFK
President Kennedy was the president of the United States of America. He was Assassinated in Dallas Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 2nd the US destroyer Maddox was fired on upon by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. Then two days later it was reported that it happened again which was illegal because they were both in international waters off of the Gulf of Tonkin when hit. We were also at war with them. Later they found out that the second attack never occurred. -
China Nuclear Bomb Test
On 16 October 1964, the People’s Republic of China conducted its first nuclear test, making it the fifth nuclear-armed state after the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
A US military attack against North Vietnam on the fight against communism. It last was approved in February but began March 1965 and ended October 1968.The massive bombardment was intended to put pressure on N.V.'s communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S.-supported government of South Vietnam. -
Election of Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon (1913-94), the 37th U.S. president, is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities by members of his administration in the Watergate scandal. -
Tet Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the TET Offensive. Which was a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in S.V. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King JR. was a younger minster and civil rights leader who inspired many. He lead many movements and was most famously known for his "I have a Dream Speech". If it wasn't for him segregation would mostly still be happening. He was fatally shot on April 4, 1968. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy. He was a well know man and was into politics. Shortly after JFK was assassinated he ran for president and while on the campaign trail was assassinated. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
On August 20 1968, the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia with Warsaw troops to stop the reformer trends in Prague. The Soviet Union was successful and halted their pace but it created other problems for the Soviet Union. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
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. Over the course of 24 hours, the predominant American line of thought on the Cold War with the Soviet Union was shattered. -
Kent State shooting
On April 30, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters launched a demonstration that included setting fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsmen to the campus -
Nixon travels to China
In 1972, Richard Nixon visited the Peoples Republic of China. It was a historic moment in history and was a historic opening in the cold war. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. -
Fall of Saigon
On April 30th, the North Vietnamese Army took over Saigon with little resistance, and it was quickly renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Minh, who had died several years before. Later in the day President Minh announced: "I declare the Saigon government [of South Vietnam] is completely dissolved at all levels." -
The Election of Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was sworn into office January 20, 1981 and was one of the first republican nominee to win 489 electoral college votes. His goal as president was to destroy communism. -
Announcement of SDI
SDI was the Strategic Defense Infinitive, it is also refereed to by the name 'Star Wars'. It was a space base missile defense satellite in space that would recognize and zap enemy missiles or nuclear weapons from hitting America. -
1st Geneva Conference
The first Geneva Conference was between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the meeting the soviets tried to create an agreement with the US by telling us that they would reduce nuclear weapons if Reagan stopped SDI. -
'Tear Down This Wall' speech
Ronald Reagan despite being told not to travel to Berlin went and delivered a speech that inspired the world, especially the citizen. Soon after his famous speech the walls was torn down and Germany was reunited -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After Ronald Reagan traveled to Berlin and challenged the USSR about tearing down the Berlin. Many people and countries where inspired opening their own borders. Soon enough the USSR announced the tear down and Germany was reunited.
