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Russians Revolt!!!
A pair of revolutions in Russia that tore down the Tsarist autocracy and rise of the Soviet Union. In the Start of the revolution in February fell Emperor Nicholas II and rose the roots of the soviets. -
The conference to bring "peace"
Participants, President Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clements Attlee gathered to decide how administer Germany after their surrender earlier on May 8th. The goals of this conference also included the establishment of postwar order -
The Devastating Attack of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During the final stage of World War II, The U.S.A dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. August 6th was on Hiroshima and August 9th was on Nagasaki. Two bombs killed 129,000 people -
An Iron Curtain rise across east Europe
A boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas. West with west Germany, France, United Kingdom, etc. and East Germany, Poland, Soviet Union, etc. -
The Hollywood 10
10 motion-picture producers,directors,screenwriters who refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations. -
Truman Doctrine
A American foreign policy whose stated purpose to counter Soviet expansion -
America aid West Europe!!!
American Initiative to aid western Europe. The United States gave over $12 billion dollars in economic assistance -
Capitalist fight against Communist's blockade
First major international crises of the cold war. The Soviets blocked off the west railways, roads, and canal access to Berlin. The west fought back with the Berlin airlift giving supplies to Berlin like food water, etc. -
Soviet strike back in the bomb race
After the Soviets learned about the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki they started to develop their own. Successfully testing in 1949. -
NATO against communist
29 members states from North America and Europe formed to create allies so if one is attacked they are all attacked -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
Also known as massive response. It is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy. A state commits itself retaliation. -
A bloody war for nothing
A war between north and south Korea that the U.S. and U.S.S.R where involved in to make Korea be capitalist or communist. -
Russia's new dictator
The first secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union -
Army-McCarthy hearings
A series of hearings by the United states Senate's subcommittee to investigate accusations of U.S. army and U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy. -
The Warsaw Pact is formed
A treaty signed in warsaw by the Soviets, poland and seven satellite states of central eastern europe -
Back in Nam'
in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam. -
The Hungarians revolts!!!
a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
The major U2 incident
A U2 spy plane was shot down by Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing aerial reconnaissance. The pilot was captured and was taken to jail. -
Bay of pigs invade!!
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
The Berlin wall
A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS!!!
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. -
Detente by Nixon
Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The lessening of tensions between the East and West, along with domestic reform in the Soviet Union, worked together to achieve the end of communism in Eastern Europe and eventually the Soviet Union altogether. -
Reagan's doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Tear down this wall!!!
a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin , calling for the leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin since 1961. -
The fall of the Berlin wall
East Germany and East Berlin government officially opened up in November 1989. The wall's demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls
