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The Russian Revolution
The significance of this was it showed the differences between the U.S. and the Soviet union. It shows how the two countries see the world. -
The Potsdam Conference
In the Potsdam conference it discussed how the U.S. wanted to keep peace in Europe, controlling of Germany, and postwar boundaries. Tensions emerged when Russia wanted to take over Germany and other countries and use communism to control them. -
The Atomic Bomb
The use of the Atomic bomb upset the soviet union because they knew we had it but using it gave them more pressure. By using the atomic bomb it changed warfare for the future because it feared other countries of that kind of catastrophe. -
Iron curtain
Iron curtain is a term that symbolizes the non-existing wall that divided Europe into two seperate areas. East was communised ruled or influenced while the west were countries connected to the U.S. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was important because it helped stop communism from spreading. The U.S. would support free countries that were endangered of communism with money,construction,equipment,coal,etc.This included the Marshall plan which was a massive economic assistance the U.S. did for Europe spending 12 billion dollars. -
Molotov Plan
The Motovo Plan was a system made by the Soviet Union. It provided aid to rebuild the Countries in Eastern Europe. It would only provide aid to countries that had been economically and politically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
Hollywood Ten
At the end of the cold war actors were denied employment because they were accused of be communist. People in the entertainment industry were put on a blacklist which told people hiring that they were communist. Ten of them had to testify in court which is the Hollywood ten. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was when American gave 12 billion dollars to Western Europe to help aid them. They did this to help them rebuild Western European economies at the end of the second world war. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was a major international crisis. During the Berlin blockade, the Soviet Union blocked all of the Western Allies' railway road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under the Westerns control. Although the Soviets offered to drop the blockade if the Deutsche mark from West Berlin. The airlift was organized to the people in West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an act in response to the Berlin Blockade. The United States started an air lift that sent food, medicine, and water to the citizens. This went on for almost a year. -
NATO
NATO stands for National Atlantic Treaty Organisation. It is an alliance that was has twenty-nine members of each state from North America and Europe. It was made to keep communist from controlling their area. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Bomb test was classified research that allowed Stalin to drop nuclear weapons during World war II. They were testing out the bombs in case they would ever have to use them. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was an American government official. He had been accused of being a Soviet spy. He formally was apart of a HUAC and was secretly a communist while working with the government. He went to court and was found guilty of communism. He then spent three and a half years in jail. -
Korean War
The Korean War was between North Korea and South Korea. China and the Soviet Union were helping North Korea. The United States and United Nations were helping South Korea. North Korea is communist and South Korea is anti-communist. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg's were spies from the Soviet Union. The two had been tried, convicted and executed by the United States government. They had given out top secret information about the United States. They later found out that one of the two had not been directly part of it. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a fight between the e French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. It happened between March and May of 1954. In this battle the French lost. -
Geneva Conference
Geneva Conference was a conference that involved several nations. It had been held in Switzerland. The goal was to settle the issues that came about from the Korean and Indochina War. -
Army McCarthy Hearing
Army McCarthy Hearing was a series of hearings that was held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. They had to investigate the accusations of the spread of communism. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was originally known as the Friendship Treaty. The Soviet Union had this treaty made to balance the NATO. It is between the Soviet Union and the seven other European satellite states. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungarian Revolution was a nation wide revolution that was against the Hungarian People's Republic and it's soviet-imposed policies. The revolt started with a Student and spread quickly. The government ended up collapsed. -
U2 Incident
The U-2 was a spy plane that was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while the pilot was taking a picture deep in Soviet territory. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Bay of Pigs invasion was a exile that was launched on the south coast of Cuba. It had been a failed military invasion on Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded barrier that divided Berlin. It was constructed by German Democratic Republic. The wall separated West Berlin from East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a fight between the United States and the Soviet Union. It started because America discovered the Soviets ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.It is considered to be the closest call to a nuclear war. -
Assassination of Diem
Diem was the president of South Vietnam. Diem and his brother had been arrested. They made a run for it but ended up surendering because they had a safe exile. Although when they surrendered they were both executed. -
Assassination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas while he was in a car. He had been shot by a former marine. Kennedy was seriously injured when he got shot and died 30 minutes after the shooting. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was for President Johnson. It allowed him to take any measures he thought were necessary to spread the word of the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder took place between March of 1965 to November 1968. It was a aerial bombardment campaign that the United States did to North Vietnam. This battle was one of the most intense ground and air battles of the whole cold war. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive were a bunch of surprise attacks that were from the Vietcong and North Vietnam. These attacks took place in cities and towns and had not only been against military but also civilians. This was said to be a major turning point during the war. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee. H was shot at a motel. Martin had been a civil rights movement leader. Some people think that the United States Government had something to do with him being shot to death. -
Kent State
The Kent State Shooting was a shooting that happened at Kent State University during a protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Four students were killed and nine were injured. -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy had been shot on June fifth and died twenty-six hours later on June sixth in Los Angeles, California. He had just won an award the day he got shot. Just like his brothers killing many people had conspiracy theories. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The invasion of Czechoslovakia was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by five Warsaw Pact countries. They attacked them at night leaving 136 Czechoslovakian civilians dead and 500 very injured. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The Riots of Democratic convention was a convention that was supposed to help select a new presidential nominee to run as the Democratic Party's candidate for the office. This was held because President Johnson wasn't going to reelect for presidency. -
Election of Nixon
Richard Nixon was elected the 46th president of the Unites States on November fifth 1968. He was formally a vice president. -
Nixon visits China
When Richard Nixon visited china it had been important fro the Unites States. Nixon went to China to gain more leverage over the relations with the Soviet Union. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam as a temporary stoppage of the war. It was supposed to be a formal agreement to end the fighting. -
Fall of Saigon
The fall of Saigon by the by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Vietcong ended the Vietnam war. After that happened people were then evacuated and it had been one of the largest evacuations. -
Reagan elected
Ronald Reagan was elected the 49th president of the united states on November 4th, 1980. During this election he took the majority of the votes. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a proposed missile defense system that was supposed to protect the United States. This idea was also known as the suicide pact because of what the outcome would be. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference with Gorbachev was a meeting held in Switzerland. It had been between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two met to talk about the arms race. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
The ‘Tear down this wall’ speech was by President Ronald Reagan to East and West Berlin. The speech went over why the wall shouldn't have been standing and stated that it was time for the wall to get tron down. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin wall happened shortly after Ronald Reagan's speech about tearing the wall down. It had divided West and East Berlin for too long. The fall of the communist government had to do with the fall of the Berlin wall.
