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Russian Revolution
By 1917, most Russians lost faith in the leadership ability of Czar Nicholas the second and wanted him dead and over threw him and the military. -
Marshall Plan
Officially known as the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan was intended to rebuild the economies and spirits of western Europe, primarily. -
Potsdam Confrence
Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference was the last of the World War 2 meetings held by the "Big Three" heads of the state. -
Atomic Bomb- Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Two of the fist Atomic bombs were Japans last warnings. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two targets planned by the Potsdam committee made by president Truman. -
Iron Curtain
The Soviet Union erected an ideological barrier after World War 2 to seal itself off and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Molotov Plan
The Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood 10
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the HUAC. -
Berlin Blockade
On June 24, 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to allied-controlled areas of Berlin, the United States and the United Kingdom responded with airlifting food and fuel to Berlin allied airbases in western Germany. -
Berlin Airlift
The United States and the United Kingdom in a response to the Soviet blockade rail, road, and water was by airlifting food and fuel. -
Soviet bomb test
Collected by the Soviet intelligence through their spy ring in the United States the Soviet Union secretly conducted its first weapon test (First Lighting) that was based on the U.S. design. -
Alger Hiss Case
Convicted of perjury and was charged that he was a communist in the 1930s and 1940s. HUAC was using "red hearings" to defram him. -
Korean War
Korea was divided and the Soviet union temperately terrorizing North Korea so some took refugee in South Korea but they didn't get along and the U.S. convinced the United Kingdom To help Korea. South Korea is Communist and North Korea does not want to be apart of that so they contacted the U.S. to help out and the U.S. lost that war. -
NATO
A treaty that was signed by countries that can't fight in war. But the treaty really took off when the Korean war started. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the first climatic confrontation of the first Indochina war between the French Union. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
A series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on investigations between April 1954 to June 1954. -
Geneva Conference
A conference among many nations to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and discuss the possibility of restoring Indochina. -
Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the arms forces of the member states. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungarian uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October to 10 November 1956. -
Rosenburg trial
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
U2 incident
During the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Elsenhower and the primership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1998. -
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 in Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of Diem and his brother Nhu was a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in a open convertible a man, Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
During the spring of 1964, military planners had developed a detailed design for major attacks on the North. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Bombardment against the Communist leaders to reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S. -
Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam war. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after winning the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election and died while being hospitalized. -
Election of Nixon
Two years after losing the Kennedy s, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost in a bitter campaign against Edmund G. Brown. -
Kent State
In Ohio protesters launched a demonstration that included setting fire to the ROTC building, prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsman to the campus.