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The Cold War
The Cold War was a time period in which Allie powers battled with the Soviet Union for negotiations after World War Two. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech was given by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill where he formally condemned the Soviet Unions policies in Europe. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy by Harry Truman in 1947 that was created to counter the Soviet Union. It was created in an attempt to banish communism stating America will help any country that is threatened by Soviet Communism. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system created by the Soviet Union in an attempt to rebuild countries in Eastern Europe. They provided aid to country's that were politically and economically assigned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood Ten
Ten members of the Hollywood film industry were exposed by HUAC- an investigation committee that revealed supposed communist influence in the film industry. The screenwriters and directors, known as the Hollywood 10 received jail time and were prohibited to work in Hollywood studios again. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a recovery program by America to help Western Europe recover from World War 2. America spent around $12 billion helping rebuild the Western European Economy. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was a blocking of the Western Allies railways, roads, and canals by the Soviet Union. No one could enter sectors of Berlin under Western control on the Eastern side. -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a plan for the Allie powers to divide and occupy Germany at the end of World War Two. It was divided into occupational zones, Berlin was located inside Soviet territory eastern Germany. -
NATO
NATO is short for The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which is a military alliance based of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. It was created in an effect to detour Soviet expansionism, forbid any nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence, and encourage European political interrogation. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
The Soviet Unions first nuclear test in 1949, it was code named RDS-1 and took place in current day Kazakhstan -
Alger Hiss case
The Alger Hiss case started in 1948 when Whittaker Chambers charged Alger Hiss as a communist in the 30's and 40's. Chambers, an ex-communist himself testified at the House Un-American activities Committee. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a battle in which North Korea Invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the U.S aided South Korea in an attempt to stop communism and the Soviet Union aided the North to promote the spread of it. -
Rosenberg case
The Rosenberg Case was a legal case in which Julius Rosenberg was arrested and executed with his wife Ethel for “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage". Meaning they were spying on the United States for the Soviet Union. -
The battle of Dien Bien Phu
The battle of Dien Bien Phu was the conflict between the French Union's far east corps and Viet Minh Communist-Nationalist revolutionaries. The battle resulted in a French defeat ad negotiations over the future of Indochina. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a set of legal hearings to investigate senator Joseph McCarthy exposing's of communists in America. He accused numerous amounts of people with communist tendencies and security risks in the army. -
1st Geneva Conference
The first Geneva Conference took place in Switzerland in an attempt of settle foreign issues with the Korean Peninsula and trying to restore peace in Indochina. Countries that attended include the Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship was a defense treaty with the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet Satellite States in Europe. It was created in motivation by Soviet powers to maintain control over military forces and NATO. -
The Invasion of Hungary in 1956
The Invasion of Hungary was a nationwide revolt against Hungary's Republic and its Soviet-like policies. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR drove out Nazi Germany from its territory in the end of World War Two. -
U2 incident
The U-2 incident was when an American spy plane was shot down by Soviets in the 1960's. It occurred during Eisenhower presidency and premiership of Nikita Khrushchev. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was when the American army trained Cuban refugees to invade overtaken communist Cuba. It failed and ended in a severe American loss and Fidel Castro continued to rule communist Cuba. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a separator between East and West Berlin
after it was divided into different divisions.The East was controlled by the Soviet Union and the west by the United States. The wall was built by the Soviet Union and served as an iron curtain so citizens would not flee to the west. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. It was between "American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba". It was the closest time the cold war came to nuclear conflict. -
Assassination of Diem
The assassination of Diem was a turning point in the war in Vietnam, the CIA backed operation was an American success. The U.S was advising the South Vietnam government in its actions and had over 16,000 troops in South Vietnam at this time. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 2016 at 12:30 p.m traveling with his wife in downtown Dallas. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald who was later killed before put onto trial. Kennedy was the fourth president assassinated and the most recent out of the four. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
President Lyndon Johnson reported in 1964 that U.S ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson wanted congress to pass a resolution to send planes against the attackers. -
China & Soviet nuclear test
The People’s Republic of China tested nuclear weapons successfully to join one of five nations to complete this task. They do so after the U.S, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the name of a campaign for aerial bombings against North Vietnam. There were four main objectives of the plan, boost morale of the Saigon regime, persuade North Vietnam to cease support for communist need in the South, destroy North Vietnam transportation, and halt supplies and people into South Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War during 1968. It was the U.S, South Vietnamese, Army Republic of Vietnam, and their allies versus Viet Cong and North Vietnamese. It was surprise attacks against military and civilians throughout South Vietnam. -
Assassination of MLK
Martian Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a racist killing King in Memphis TN. Millions were saddened by the unfortunate death of the peaceful protester. -
Assassination of RFK
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6 1968 after being the leading candidate for democratic presidential nominee. He was a politician in the U.S as he was a junior senator in New York and a U.S attorney general. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
In 1968 the Soviet Union led Warsaw pacts to invade Czechoslovakia in an attempt to stop Alexander Dubček's Prague liberalisation reforms. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was in Chicago from August 26 to August 29. Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek re election and the democrats seeked a new candidate. The year was full of violence and riots throughout major cities after the assassination of Robert Kennedy and other solemn events. -
The Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential race of 1968 resulted in the election of Richard Nixon. He won over the democratic nominee Huburt Humphre after the rough and violent year of multiple assassinations and riots. -
Kent State shooting
The Kent State shooting was at the college in Kent, Ohio where unarmed college students were fired at by the Ohio National Guard in 1970. 28 soldiers admitted to the crime, resulting in four deaths and wounding nine others one suffering permanent paralysis to the body. -
Nixon Visits China
In 1972, Nixon visited China to meet with Mao Zedong in Beijing. It was a vital role in the cold war as it helped with normalizing relations between the United States and China. -
The Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon (the capital of South Vietnam) by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. This was the formal ending to the Vietnam war. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
On January 23 1973, Nixon announced a ceasefire in Vietnam to bring an end to the longest war in America. Nixon told nation wide television that a ceasefire would begin at 7 P.M and the peace agreement will be formally signed by the U.S, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and Viet Cong the following Saturday. -
The Presidential Election of Ronald Reagan
The election of 1980 was between republican Ronald Reagan and democrat Jimmy Carter. Reagan addressed both the Iran hostage crisis and the worsening economy and won in staggering numbers. He received the highest number of electoral votes won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. -
Announcement of SDI
The Strategic Defense Initiative "SDI" was a system to protect the United States from nuclear weapons. It was set up in 1984 using strategic defenses rather than offensive and nicknamed "Star Wars". They spoke on a "global shield" that would protect the United States from attacks although not physically plausible. -
"Tear Down This Wall" Speech
The tear down this wall speech was made by Ronald Reagan In west Berlin in 1987. He demanded that the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, Mikhail Gorbachev was to open up the barrier between East and West Berlin that had been divided since 1961. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva conference, also known as the Geneva Accords, was a agreement of the situation in Afghanistan when Russia invaded it. The United States and Soviet Union served as guarantors when Afghanistan and Pakistan signed the agreement. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
In 1989, The Berlin Wall came to an end as the spokesman for East Berlin's communist party announced that they will no longer enforce the wall between East and West Berlin. Citizens were then free to cross the countries borders at their own will.
