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The Russian Revolution
It was a pair of revolutions that ended the Tsarist Autocracy, and helped institute the Soviet Union. March 1917, The old Russian Empire was replaced by a temporary government, which led community meetings to be held by the "soviets". In October 1917, the second revolution, the temporary government was overthrown, and the Soviets took over the country. -
The Hollywood 10
During the the 1940's, employment would be denied to screen writers, actors, directors, and musicians for being accused of being communist or having communist ties. Ben Barzman, Paul Draper, Sheridan Gibney, Paul Green, Canada Le, Lillian Hellman, Edwin Rolfe, Paul Robeson, William Sweets, and Richard Wright made up the Hollywood 10. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin to develop nuclear weapons during World War 2. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was a boundary dividing Europe from the end of World War 2 in 1945, to the end of the old War in 1992. The Soviets instituted this to block itself off from the West and its allied nations. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a meeting that took place in Cecilienhof, Germany and was held by Dictator Joseph Stalin (USSR) Prime Minister Winston Churchill (UK) and President Harry S. Truman (USA). Purpose of the meeting was to discuss how Germany was going to be divided up between the victors of the war. Also, peace treaty issues, postwar order, and countering the effects of the war were also justified. -
Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the final stages of World War 2, the United States dropped 2 nuclear on Japan, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after having consent from the United Kingdom in the Quebec Agreement. These -
Truman Doctrine
Truman Doctrine was American policy that countered Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Congress provided financial aid to counties like Greece and Turkey to stop communist threats. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American initiative to help Western Europe, in which the U.S. gave $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild western European economies after World War 2. -
Berlin Blockade & Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. Western allies' railways, canals, and roads were blocked off by the Soviet Union. The Western Allies then orchestrated the Berlin Airlift to send aid to Western Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a an intergovernmental military between 29 North American and European countries. NATO establishes a system of collective defense whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by an external powers. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between Northern and Southern Korea. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the U.S. As a product of the Cold War, the country divided into 2 and each side wanted to control both regions. -
Nikita Khrushcev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushcev was a Soviet statesmen who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
These were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy
Also known as Massive Retaliation, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in a much greater force in the event of a attack. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, cooperation and Mutual Assistance was a collective defense treaty that was signed in Warsaw, Poland. The Soviet Union and 7 other satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955 during the Cold War. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also know as the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975. Te war was officially fought by North and Southern Korea. The North Vietnamese side was communist, while South Korea was anti-communist. -
Hungarian Revolution
A revolt against Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian's people republic and it's Soviet imposed policies, which lasted from October 23 until November 10 1956. It was the first major threat to the Soviet control since USSR's forces drove Nazi Germany from it's territory at the end of World War 2. -
U2 Incident
A United States spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep in Soviet territory. US authorities acknowledge the incident as the loss of a civilian weather research aircraft operated by NASA, but later had to admit the missions true purpose. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of the Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The invasion was meant to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The wall cut of virtually cut off West Berlin from all of Eastern Germany and Eastern Berlin until it was open by government officials in 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Also known as the October Crisis of 1962, Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare was a 13 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet missile deployment in Cuba. It was the boiling point f the Cold War because nuclear seemed eminent at the time. -
Detente Under Nixon
Detente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political state. In the Cold War, the lessening of the tensions between the East and the 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. -
The Reagan Docrine
It 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. It was the centerpiece of American Foreign Policy from the 1980's to the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
President Ronald Reagan called out the leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in his speech about opening up the barrier that was the Berlin Wall. "Tear down this wall!" an excerpt from his speech. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall began the evening of November 9, 1989 and continued over the following days and weeks. Tens of thousand of people gathered at the walls to help destroy the border wall. The fall of the wall marked the first critical step towards German Reunification.