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Russian Revolution
They dismanted the old rule and the rise of the soviet union -
Khruschec takes over
Khrushchev Takes Over for Stalin. During World War II, Khrushchev mobilized troops to fight Nazi Germany in the Ukraine and at Stalingrad. After the war, he helped to rebuild the devastated countryside while simultaneously stifling Ukrainian nationalist dissent. -
Iron Curtian
Boundary dividing two separate powers from the end of WWll, to the end of the Cold War in 1991. It was to block outside countries entering the USSR -
Potsdam Confrence
Held in Cecilienholf and with a major leader of 3 countries. U.S, Soviet union, and Britian. Tzlked about the post war fate of Gernamy -
Atomic Bomb-Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
Used during WWll. Two bomb landed in these two towns. 140,000 people died in Hiroshima & 80,000 in Nagasaki, Radiation killed thousand more. -
Truman Doctirne
The Proclamation by U.S. President Henry S. Truman. The proclamation was to help Greece & Turkey before it fell into Soviet's hands. -
Berlin blockade and airlift
The Soviets blocked out berlin from allied powers and planned to starve them out to gain more territory, but the U.S. airlifted supplies instead over the wall -
Marshall
An American initiative to aid western europe. They gave over 13 billion in economic assistance -
NATO
intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty signed on april 4, 1949 -
Soviet Bomb test
Was a 41.2 k device, site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, and code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. -
Hollywood 10
10 producers, Directors, and screen-writers who appeared before the Un-Amercian activities about communists afflictions , with contempt of congress -
Korean War
A war betweeen both south korea and north korea along side the border because of alot of clashes between the two -
Eisenhowers Massive Retaliation Policy
Eisenhower adopted a foreign policy of “massive retaliation.” This policy sought to counter the growing Soviet threat. It viewed nuclear weapons. -
Army McCarthy hearings
series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Going after communists in "bad faith" -
Warsaw pact
signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance -
The Vietnam War
The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The Vietnam War because they wanted to stop the spread of communism -
Hungarian Revolution
A nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 Incident
a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
the invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces trained in the US. The purpose of the invasion was to overthrow Castro. -
Berlin Wall
A guarded concrete barrier that physically divided Berlin. It cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin. in 1989 demolition of the wall. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment -
Detente under Nixon
A period of improved relations between U.S. and Soviet Union -
Reagan Doctrine
strategy to overwhelm the global influence of soviet union -
Regans berlin wall speech
Ronald Reagan traveled to West Berlin, to the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall, to deliver a speech commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
fall of the Berlin Wall from November 7-9 with an installation of 6,800 lamps coupled with illuminated balloons along a 15km route where the Wall once ran and divided the city into capitalist West and communist East.
