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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a boundary dividing soviet communism from capitalism. on the east side represented communism while the west side represented capitalism. -
Russian Revolution (1917)
The Russian Revolution in 1917 lead to the rise in power from the Soviet Union by taking down the Tsarist autocracy. The Soviet Union fought for a communist style of government in Russia -
Potsdam Conference
the Potsdam Conference was the World War II meeting between America Britain and the Soviet union. The leaders issued a declaration demanding ‘unconditional surrender’ from Japan -
Atomic bomb - Hiroshima/Nagasaki
During World War II America dropped the first A-Bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki -
Hollywood 10
Ten Hollywood directors that would not go under investigation by U.S. House of Representatives. They were later received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios. -
Truman Doctrine
A foreign policy saying the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under attack by communist nation. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was the first major international crisis of the cold war. The soviet union blocked allies railroad and canal access from shared occupation Germany. The U.S dropped air supplies to their sector in Germany. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American aid Western Europe in which the United States gave over $12 billion to help rebuild Western European economies after World War II. -
Soviet bomb test
USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb At a test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the near the bomb. -
NATO
NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO is an international alliance between 29 nations from North America and Europe. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began North Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th parallel. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. In July of 1950, American troops had entered the war representing south Korea. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Senate hearing derived from Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists in US. Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine accused the army of communism. -
Eisenhower’s Massive Retaliation Policy
Massive Retaliation is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty signed Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long war between the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. -
Khruschev Takes over
Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964 during the height of the Cold War. He instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. -
U2 Incident
Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane, is released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay pf pigs was a failed military invasion of Cuba ordered by the CIA. The CIA trained Cuban exiles who traveled to the United States after Castro's takeover. The Cuban exiles attack on southern coast of Cuba failed. -
Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a wall between East and West Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. -
Detente under Nixon
Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term originates in the time of the Triple Entente -
The Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy by the United States to overwhelm the global influence of the Soviet Union in an attempt to end the Cold War. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
A speech made Ronald Reagan in West Berlin on June 12, 1987, tell the leader of the Soviet Union, to open up the barrier which had divided West and East Berlin -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe.