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Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution took place in 1917 and was the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. Two revolutions, overthrew imperial government, placing the Bolsheviks in power. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Bomb Test was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Potsdam Conference
An allied conference held at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin. Main participants include, President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The conference discussed the substance and procedures of the peace settlements in Europe. -
The Atomic Bomb
In the final stages of WW II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was the name for the dividing boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas at the end of WW II. Efforts by Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1946 to 1954. It was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries -
Truman Doctrine
Harry S. Truman pronounced on March 12, 1947 declaring immediate economic and military aid to the government of Greece and Turkey. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade took place 24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949. One of the first international crisis of the Cold War. An attempt by the Soviet Union to force the western allied powers -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948. Hiss, was tried and convicted of perjury. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the end of the Blockade. 1949, Soviet blockade of West Berlin had failed. It had not persuaded West Berliners to reject their allies in the West, nor had it prevented the creation of a unified West German state. -
Nato
NATO-the North Atlantic Treaty Organization an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. Established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4 1949. -
Korean War
The Korean War was conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg couple were accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg, were the first American civilians to be executed for espionage prosecution. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 was a group of media workers, that were accused of having communism ties when they appeared before Huac -(House Un-American Activities Committee). -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of the countries of eastern Europe. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings on investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 to July 20, 1954. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact took place (May 14, 1955–July 1, 1991) treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization. A treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union. -
Hungarian Revolution
Hungarian Revolution, popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, following a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in which he attacked the period of Stalin’s rule. -
U2 Incident
May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a secret mission to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Assassination of JFK
November 22, 1963 in Dallas Texas. He was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November -
Assassination of Diem
The arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm, the president of South Vietnam, in November 1963 -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on cities, towns, throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Assassination of RFK
Senator Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. -
Election of Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th presidential election, on November 5, 1968. Republican nominee, Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Riots of Democratic convention
Aug 26, 1968 – Aug 29, 1968 The Democratic National Convention was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, was a joint invasion on the night of 20–21 August 1968. -
Kent State
The Kent State shootings were on May 4, 1970, of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, -
Nixon visits China
U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China was an important strategic of relations between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation 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 on 30 April 1975. -
Reagan elected
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. -
SDI announced
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik. Following up on their successful November 1985 summit meeting in Geneva. -
‘Tear down this wall’ speech
"Tear down this wall!" is a line from a speech made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, -
Fall of Berlin Wall
November 1991 was a wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
