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The Russian Revolution
The Russia Revolution involved communism and key events that caused later tension all through the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The people of Russia were in anguish, starvation, and determination of hard labor. A new government materialized to power which caused later tension in the Russian Revolution. -
The Potsdam Conference
The Potsdam Conference was a conference established on the negotiations for the terms of World War ll. Both British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Truman were tenacious to secure political freedom and the democratic governments all across Europe. -
The Atomic Bomb
The Atomic Bomb opened doors to a new form of brutality. It assembled an extensive amount of tension and fear throughout the nations as well as distrust. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the boundary of Eastern and Western Europe. It was divided into isolated areas by the Soviet Union so that no one perceived was what going on in either countries. It also served as a blockade from allied states. -
Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was a system established by the Soviet Union to provide economic and political aid and rehabilitate the countries in Eastern Europe. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine represented a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. provided economical, political, and military support to countries or people threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over 12 billion dollars in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War ll. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was a former state employee who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union. It caused people to fear that there was communism all throughout their country. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an endeavor by the Soviet Union to limit the ability to France, Great Britain, and the U.S. to travel to the Sectors of Berlin. The Soviet Union made an attempt to take away the U.S. power and our supplies that we gave to Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created because the U.S. needed military alliance as well to defend against the Soviet Union. It consisted of the U.S., Canada, and 10 European countries. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was the division of Eastern and Western Germany. Germany was divided into four sections and was acquired by Britain, France, the United Sates, and the Soviet Union while Berlin was also branched into the same way. Technically, this was the first battle of the Cold War, and took place when countries delivered food and supplies such as Berlin. -
Soviet Bomb Test
The Soviet Union tested a toxic atomic bomb. This frightened the United States because they did not expect the Soviet Union to enact a deadly weapon that could kill millions of people and having the knowledge of assembling this atomic bomb. This was a threat to the U.S. and to the people as well. -
Korean War
North Korea were communists which is why North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.S. sent soldiers to split Korea at the 38th Parallel. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenbergs were accused of passing bomb secrets from the Manhattan Project to the Soviets. They were convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. -
Hollywood 10
The Hollywood 10 were a group of people who refused to answer questions about being a communist. Many movie stars were convicted for content of congress and others were blacklisted, meaning they never worked for Hollywood ever again because they could not prove that they were not communists. This caused a danger in freedom of speech. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu happened in November 1953 12,000 French paratroops descended into the valley of Dien Bien Phu in North West Vietnam. Their mission was to draw the Diet Ming into a final decisive battle to end each war. -
Army-McCarthy hearings
Joseph McCarthy was a senator from Wisconsin who claimed to have a list of 205 communists working in the state department. He didn't actually have a list, and only claimed this to state people. He also accused Marshall as well and threatened President Truman -
Geneva Conference
Rural leaders in Geneva gathered to discuss the problems of Indochina and work towards a peaceful settlement for Vietnam. The Geneva Accords called for Vietnam to be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty signed by Poland as well as the Soviet Union and sates of Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a nationwide revolt against Joseph Stalin's rule. Which started by a speech by the Soviet leader. -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident was an encounter between the Soviet Union and the United States that was a shooting attack by the Soviet Union causing the destruction of a summit conference between the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France in Paris. -
The Bay of Pigs
JFK inherited an 'all or nothing' policy to fight nuclear war with nuclear weapons. Flexible response was a build up in conventional warfare and weapons, nuclear weapons, as well as counter insurgency. The Bay of Pigs was an armed invasion created by the CIA to train Cuban exiles to invade Cuba. The whole thing ended up failing and because of this many exiles were captured. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that surrounded West Berlin and was created to restrict access from West Berlin to East Berlin and neighboring areas of East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union was attempting to put missiles in Cuba. Military forces were preparing for a possible invasion of Cuba. The U.S. minutemen missiles were poised to destroy every major city in the Soviet Union. Our military leaders were Advising JFK to use our military nuclear weapons. The situation was finally resolved by Khrushchev ordering the removal of missiles, JFK promised to not invade Cuba and we would remove nuclear missiles out of Turkey. -
Assassination of Diem
The Buddiest crisis sealed Diem's fate. The united States could no longer claim to be fighting for democracy while supporting a despotic resieme. With American consent a military coo was launched on November 1st 1963, with the Presidential Palace under seize Diem escaped only to be captured within hours and by the following morning he was assassinated. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy happened on November 22, 1963, President John. F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas Texas. He rode in a convertible though Dealey Plaza to his death, and was shot by a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
In August 1964, a controversy hit incident involving 2 American warships supplied the Marination Unit for the President to commit the country to war. It was fired upon enemy patrol boats. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The Operation Rolling Thunder lasted over 3 and a half years, more that 800,000 tons of bombs were dropped on Vietnam at a cost of nearly 1 billion dollars to U.S. tax payers. But even at that price the area failed to make a dent in the residence. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive happened in January 1968 where the North Vietnamese army and Viet Cong attacked the South simultaneously (67,000 attacked 100 cities, bases, and the U.S. embassy in Saigon). They had taken every major city in the South and the U.S> and ARVN beat back the offensive, Viet Cong was destroyed. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led The Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. This consisted of The Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Hungary. They took over Bohemia, and established a protectorate over Slovakia. Hitlers invasion led to an end of appeasement and on March 17th Chamberlain have a speech saying that he could not trust Hitler not to invade other countries. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was a civil rights leader who got shot at Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy was a politician and lawyer. His role was important during this time because he fought organised crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. HE was considered a committed advocated towards the poor and racial minorities and also prevented escalation of the Vietnam War. He was then shot in Los Angeles CA at the Ambassador Hotel. -
Riots of Democratic convention
The Democratic Convention was on August 26, 1968 during a time of war and violence, political downfall, and civil disruption. Riots were breaking out in more than 100 cities leading up to the point of the Assassination of Martin. Luther King. -
Election of Nixon
Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the US from 1968 until 1974, and later resigned from office. Nixon promised in his 1968 campaign and end to the war to finally have peace and honor. During the cold war Nixon arrived in China to visit the peoples Republic of China and was seeking to improve relations with a Communist country. However, Nixon was known for the corruption and the Watergate scandal which resulted in a way where the public lost all trust of him and his resignation. -
Kent State
On May 4, 1970, many students were killed and injured when members of the Ohio National Guard started shooting on a group of people who were assembled to Protest the Vietnam War. The catastrophe was a watershed time in place for a nation divided by the conflict in Southeast Asia which led to the destruction of Richard Nixon -
Nixon visits China
In 1972, Richard Nixon was the first to visit China's Republic. The US was seeking to improve their relationship with a communist Country during the Cold War. Nixon also visited China because of his undisputed reputation of being a staunch anti-Communist and wanted to change that. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
The Ceasefire happened in 1973 when peace with honor was at hand. North Vietnam removes their troops and leaves them behind. As they do this the Vietnam are now able to resume the war and there is no provision for POW's. The South Vietnamese attempt to flee the country and America abandons its embassy. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon was the Capital of South Vietnam being captured on April 30th, 1975 by People's Army of Vietnam and the National Emancipation Front of South Vietnam. -
Reagan elected
Reagan wanted to destroy communism. He made a bold and controversial decision to increase military budget by 1.3 trillion dollars over 5 years. Reagan's stance was to rollback containment. -
SDI announced
Space Bound Defense (Missiles) are where satellites are controlling the heavens shooting down nuclear missiles and could destroy Soviet Union missiles before they hit soil with lasers. The Soviet Union viewed SDI as an immediate threat. They had no money and couldn't stay in the fight. They lied about their economic intake. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev the young and newest Soviet Union leader. He is also reform minded meaning he is open to new ideas. At the first Geneava Convention they discussed a negotiation to scale back nuclear weapons and wants the US to abandon the star wars idea. -
'Tear down the wall' speech
On June 12, 1987 president Ronald Reagan migrated towards West Berlin to give a captivation speech towards the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev to open the barrier between West and East Berlin. This wall was a symbol of the lack of freedom between the communist Soviet bloc and the Western Democratic capitalist bloc and also the Cold War. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
As the Cold War began to spread out across Eastern Europe on November 9, 1989, the representative for East Berlin's Communist Party declared an adjustment in his city's alliance with the West. Started during the day, he said, "Citizens of the FDR were free to cross the country's borders.
