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Russian Revolution
In early 1917 A Russian group called the Bolsheviks decided to overthrow the existing Russian government in order to place themselves in power in October of 1917. -
The Potsdam Conference
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and U.S. President Harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate the end of World War II. -
Atomic Bombs- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945 in order to end World War II in the Pacific. -
Iron Curtain
The barrier separating the Soviet Union and the West in order to prevent a rise in Capitalism in the USSR. -
Hollywood 10
Hollywood 10 were 10 movie producers, directors, and screenwriters that came before Congress and denied all allegations of being or having any affiliations with the communist party. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that was created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American plan 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. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was a virtual barrier created by the USSR in order to limit the resources entering Berlin in an attempt to starve all that were living inside of Berlin. This, unfortunately, didn't work for the USSR because the United States sent airlifts full of food and supplies for survival in order to keep their capitalistic friends alive. -
NATO
NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance that consists of 29 states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949 in order to keep peace internationally. -
The Soviet Atomic Bomb Tests
The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during World War II. -
Eisenhower's Massive Retaliation Plan
Eisenhowers Massive Retaliation Plan 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. This could have been created due to the events of Pearl Harbor. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. This resulted in the seperation of Korea in the North and South Korea. -
Khrushchev Takes Over
Nikita Khrushchev was a Soviet who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused McCarthy of blackmail against the communists. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty that was not only signed by the Soviet Union created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954 but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, was a revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. -
U2 Indecent
On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, Cuba launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew the previous Cuban dictator. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a wall created by the Soviet Union in order to keep all of the people of Berlin inside Berlin so that capitalism doesn't spread throughout Russia. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Turkey and with Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. This resulted in the realization of MAD (mutual assured destruction). -
Detente Under Nixon
Détente is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972. -
Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech
In one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. Two years later, deliriously happy East and West Germans did break down the infamous barrier between East and West Berlin. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring anything new to Berlin that many had hoped for, but it is more of a symbolic moment for the victors of the Cold War.
