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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was the revolt of the peasants and the working class of Russia against the government of Tsar. The group of rebellions, whom soon became known as the Bolsheviks, was led by communist, Vladimir Lenin. This revolution created a new communist government which led to the development of the Soviet Union. -
Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was the meeting of three significant leaders of the Big Three Nations. The leaders consisted of Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill from Britain, and Harry Truman from the United States. The purpose of the conference which took place in Potsdam, Germany, was to settle the terms for the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During the last stage of World War II, the United States decided to detonate two nuclear weapons over the Japaneses cities of Hiroshima and followed by Nagasaki three days later. A total of 226,000 deaths were the outcome of this atomic bombing event -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name that was given to the boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas at the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992. The purpose of the Iron Curtain was to protect the Soviet Union from the West and its allied states. -
Truman Doctrine
On March 3, 1947, President Harry Truman announced a new American foreign policy that was created to counter Soviet Union geopolitical expansions during the Cold War. Truman Doctrine was then further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 was a group of men who were suspected in taking part in a communist organization within the United States. They were then blacklisted due to refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American donation of $12 billion provide economic assistance to to Western Europe. The plan was also known as the European Recovery Program, and it would help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade came to be known as one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During post World War II Germany, the Soviet Union had blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
NATO
NATO was the acronym for the National Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was a military alliance between Europe and North American democracies that were founded after World War II.The purpose was to strengthen the international ties between member states. -
Soviet Bomb Test
Joseph Stalin had authorized a classified research and development program that would become known as the Soviet atomic bomb project. The purpose was to develop nuclear weapons for the Soviet Union during World War II to help them battle. -
Korean War
The Korean War consisted of battles between both South and North Korea. War began when North Korea had invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. In result, Korea was separated into two sovereign states. -
Khruschev Takes Over
Khruschev took a rise in power in the Soviet Union after his crucial selection. He had become named the secretary of the Communist Party in September 1953. The loss of Joseph Stalin is what really gave Khruschev the boost in Soviet leadership. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army-McCarthy hearings was a series of hearings that were held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee. The hearings consisted of investigations to acquire further knowledge about the conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Policy
The Massive Retaliation was a military doctrine and a nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of the attack. The main purpose of this doctrine was to make relations more effective and less costly. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, that can also be called the Treaty of Friendship, was a treaty that was signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1955. The Soviet Union had formed an alliance with seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe. The purpose was to make this alliance a counterbalance to the NATO. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict between North Vietnam's government and the few allies they had in South Vietnam, and South Vietnam's government and their superior nation allie, the United States. The conflict had to do with North Vietnam having a communist government, while the South had followed the United States' ways with being a capitalist government. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt that was against the Marxist-Leninist government of Hungarian. The uprising was known to be a spontaneous revolt, in which citizens were trying to flee Soviet policies and their communist ways. -
U2 Incident
On May 1, 1960 a United States U-2 spy plane who was being flown by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces. The single-seat aircraft was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On the night of April 17, 1961 an estimated number of 1,400 Cuban exiles had launched what came to be known as a failed invasion at the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs was located on the south coast of Cuba. The intentions of this invasion was to overthrow Fidel Castro and his revolution. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a physical guarded barrier that ideologically dived Berlin from 1961 to 1989.The wall had symbolized the lack of freedom under Germany's communist government. Berlin was on the front line in the Cold War struggle between the superpowers. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a confrontation that had lasted thirteen days, between the United States and the Soviet Union. It consisted of the concern of the Soviet Union after discovering that the U.S had ballistic missed deployments in both Turkey and Italy. However the Soviet Union had their own deployment sitting in Cuba, defending that specific land from American. -
Detente under Nixon
Detente was the name of a time period that strictly had to do with improvement. The improvement had to do with the United States' and Soviet Union's relationship. President at the time, Richard Nixon, and the general of the Soviet Union had agreed to meet up to reduce any further nuclear warfare. -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy that was discovered by former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. The strategy was implemented on the United States under the Ronald Administration, and would help overwhelm any global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to finally end the Cold War -
Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech
Ronald Reagan had delivered one of the most famous Cold War speeches during the time, and it was known as Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech. His goal was to challenge the leader of the Soviet Union at the time to tear down the Berlin Wall to prove the Soviets Union is done with any further conflict. Two years after the speech, the Berlin Wall had no longer separated West and East Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Since the Cold War began to thaw out, East Berlin's communist party had announced the change of the relationship between them and the West. Citizens had climbed the wall and began to tear down the border without any sort of conflict.
