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The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was the first successful communist revolution in the world. It laid the ideological groundwork for the difference that would become the Cold War in the 20th century. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference created Tensions between the British and the United states over who's gonna control Germany, securing peace in Europe. Talked about how the United states was gonna win the war with Japan and the ideas they had about controlling Europe. -
The Atomic Bomb
The Atomic Bomb was a secret operation in creating a nuke. Japan had spy's in the government. The doming of Hiroshima and Nagasaki upset Japan tremendously. This will later change the way the we fought The Cold War and the future of warfare. -
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain came after World War 2. The Soviet Union blocked its self in separating from every uncommonest areas. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was created by the soviet union to help rebuild the the countries in Eastern Europe that were aligned to them. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy that was put in place to stop the advancement of the Soviets geopolitical expansion. -
The Marshall Plan
This plan was purposed by the United States they gave the Western Europe countries 12 billion dollars to rebuild there economize. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin the United States begins a massive airlift of food water and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city For nearly a year supplies from American planes. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin blockade was an act by the Germans and the Soviet union blocking off all access to west Germany form all enemies and allies -
NATO
NATO is The North Atlantic Treaty Organization its an alliance with 29 member states from North America and Europe. -
The Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
The Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Hollywood Ten
he Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16 minute short documentary film. In the film each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was between North Korea and South Korea when North Korea invaded South Korea They fought a series of battles ot the South border. -
The Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Jewish American citizens who spied on behalf of the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government of the United States. -
The Army McCarthy Hearings
It was a series of hearings put together buy the United States Senate subcommittee investigating the conflict between The United States Army and US Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina war. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dein Bein Phu was the first French and Indochina -
The Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolution against Hungarian people. -
The U2 Incident
The U2 was a US spy plan that was shot down by the Soviet union on may 1, 1960 the plan was capturing footage deep behind enime lines. The pilot was Francis Gray Powers. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a concrete guarded wall that divided east Berlin from the rest of they nation this was done by the German Democratic Republic. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Invasion was put tougher buy the Central Intelligence Agency to have the military go into Cuba and take out Fidel Castro this attempt did not work the the US military. -
The Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban Missile crisis was the closest we got during the Cold War to having a full out nuclear war the Soviet Union built there own nuclear weapon and placed them on Cuba. In response to this The United States blockades Cuba. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was the 35th president he was shot and killed while driving through Daley plaza with his wife. The killer was a former United Sates Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Assassination of Diem
Ngo Dinh Diem was the president of south Vietnam Diem and his younger brother had been arrested by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam when they had a successful overnight siege. The Army of the Republic of Vietnam had executed the brother in the back of a military vehicle on their way back to military headquarters. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Tonkin Golf Resolution had occurred on August 7, 1964 which authorized president Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression this was the cause for Americas involvement in the Vietnam war. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a code name used for an American Bombing during Vietnam war United States military air crafted targets throughout North Vietnam They were trying to put pressure on the communist leader in North Vietnam and lessen the North's capacity to wage war on the United States government in South Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of coordinated attacks on over 100 South Vietnam cities done by the Northern Vietnamese. These attacks were designed to stir up commotion in South Vietnam and to start a rebellion. They wanted this to scale back American's involvement in Vietnam. This led to success on getting America to withdraw from Vietnam. However, due to these attacks, there was heavy causalities and it did not start a rebellion among the South Vietnamese as they had hoped -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis Tennessee on April 4th. MLK had led the non-violent civil rights movement since the 1950's. He was assassinated on the balcony of the hotel they had been staying at. His wife, Coretta Scott King had carried on King's non-violent protests in order to get justice for what had happened to her husband. African Americans, even white's, had mourned King's death. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, was assassinated at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles. Right before he was assassinated he won the California Presidential Primary. He announced to the supporters there that the country was ready to end its division he was shot immediately by Palestinian Sirhan and died a day later. -
Innovation of Czechoslovakia
200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968. Czechoslovakia had protesters trying to stop the invasion with non-violent tactics and public demonstrations. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois. ... The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4. -
Election of Nixon
John F. Kennedy had defeated Nixon in the presidential campaign eight years before this. Finally, in 1968, he defeated Hubert H. Humphrey. Many people believed his political career was over but in 1968 he proved those people wrong and became appealing to the republican party. Nixon had won the nomination that had happened at the Republican National Convention on Miami beach. -
Kent State
were the shootings on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. -
Nixon Visits China
Then President, Nikon went to visit the People's Republic of China in February of 1972. Officials in North Vietnam feared that the United States and China was going to make a deal behind their backs. Their fears were confirmed when Nikon had promised to reduce United States military force in Taiwan. Very interesting!Wow!Nice! -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On this day, a ceasefire goes into effect. However, before the cease-fire deadline, the North and South Vietnamese still fought and tried to take back villages. Due to this 25,000 South Vietnamese had died and 45,000 North Vietnamese had died as well. -
Fall of Saigon
The South Vietnamese president, General Duong Van Minh, surrendered Saigon then the North Vietnamese army took it over. They renamed it the Ho Chi Minh city to dedicate it to their leader. -
Reagan elected
In the 1980 elections, Ronald Reagan had won against George W. Bush. He got 489 electoral votes, carried 44 states, and had 50.7% of the Population voting for him. -
SDI announced
The SDI is the Strategic Defense Initiative, which is also known as Star Wars. They intended to develop a sophisticated missile system that would prevent missile attacks from other counties. Although the technology for this was out of our reach and we wouldn't have been able to create it for awhile the Soviets feared it. -
Geneva conference with Gorbachev
After eight years, Reagan and Soviet leader, Gorbachev, meet at Geneva for a conference. They came to no big agreements but they had engaged in a long, deep conversation that lead them to have a close relationship. Gorbachev wanted a better relationship with the United States so he was able to pursue his domestic reforms. -
Tear down this wall speech
This speech was given to the people in West Berlin when Soviet Union leader, Gorbachev, allowed them to get ride of the Berlin Wall that stood standing for almost 30 years. President Nikon delivered this speech in which he stated to "Tear down this wall!" to signify an end to the Cold War. Citizens started to tear down the walls with whatever they could. -
Fall of Berlin wall
On this day, East Berlins Communist party had stated that citizens were free to cross over the country's border. On both sides, many citizens waited at the wall drinking beer and champagne waiting for the gates to open. More than 2 million East Berlin citizens visited West Berlin when the gates open for a festival in the streets. They used hammers and picks to chip away at the wall. On October 3, 1990 East and West Germany were officially reunited after almost 45 years.
