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Tear Down This Wall Speech
The Tear Down This Wall speech was a speech by President Ronald Reagan asking Soviet Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. The speech was held on the western side of the wall -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution started in 1917. it happened when the Czar was overthrown by the Bolshevik political party. -
The Long Telegram
The Long Telegram was a soviet report of how the soviet union viewed the world. It was written by George F. Kenman. The communists state that they felt that they were at perpetual war with capitalism -
The Potsdam Conference
The Last of WW ll meetings held by the big 3 heads of state. It has significant importance because they discussed punishments for Germany, how they were going to split up the country, and other important factors. -
The Atomic Bomb
The atomic bomb was a new type of weapon that the world had never seen before. The attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is what eventually ended World War ll and caused Japan to surrender. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is a figurative boundary separating communist and democratic European countries. The idea was first introduced by Winston Churchill right as world war 2 ended and the cold war began. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov plan was a plan by the soviets to rebuild soviet countries that had been destroyed by World War 2. It is very similar to the United States Marshall Plan, which was used as a measure of containment. -
The Truman Doctorine
The Truman Doctrine was a foreign policy that was designed to prevent the spread of communism. It states that the united states will provide political, military, and economic support to any countries that are susceptible to communism. -
The Berlin Blockade
The attempt from the soviet union to limit France, great Britain, and the united states from travelling through Berlin -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a post World War 2 act to financially aid Europe. It was created to help western Europe rebuild itself after the war. the thought was that if we financially aided these countries, it would prevent the spread of poverty, and communism -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was an attempt by the United States and the United Kingdom to counterattack the blockade to east Berlin by the Soviet Union. Allied forces in Germany were airlifting fuel, food, and other miscellaneous supplies to the citizens oppressed by the union. -
NATO
NATO, or North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an alliance that is built up of 29 countries in North America and Europe. It was formed to provide security against the soviet union, and it still exists today! -
Chinese Communist Revolution
The Chinese Communist revolution took place during the Chinese Civil War and the second Sino Japanese war. The revolution started due to the oppressive Qing dynasty's rule on the country. Peasants began to revolt which lead to the birth of communism in the country. -
The First Soviet Bomb Test
The first soviet bomb test, also known as code name "Joe 1", was the Soviets first attempt at launching an atomic weapon. It was constructed similarly to the weapon detonated in the Manhattan Project. -
Alger Hiss Case
Alger Hiss was a United States government official during the Cold War. He was accused of spying for the Soviet union, but couldn't be convicted for various reasons. Although he was convicted for perjury for reasons connected to the case. -
The Korean War
The Korean war was a conflict between communist Northern Korea and capitalist Southern Korea. The war started because of containment, or the prevention of the spread of communism held by the United States. -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American Citizens that were accused of espionage and spying for the Soviet Union. The trial is still extremely controversial because there is little evidence. Both Julius and Ethel were executed by electric chair in 1953. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
The army-McCarthy hearings was a series of hearings held to investigate conflicting accusations by Senator McCarthy and the united states government. it was held by the United States Senates Subcommittee On Investigations. These claims included false accusations of being communist, or spying for the soviet union. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw pact was originally founded to combat NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It consisted of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
The Hungarian Revolution
The Hungarian Revolution was a revolution lead by the people against the soviets oppression, or the Hungarian peoples republic. -
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs was an attempt by the United States to reverse the effects of Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba. We had sponsored Cuban exiles to do the job, but they did not succeed -
U2 Incident
The U2 Incident started when the Soviet Union shot down a U2 Aircraft, and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. It drastically Increased tension between the 2 countries. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a severe conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. it lasted 13 days. The reason for the conflict was that the united states intercepted a shipment of soviet missiles on their way to Cuba. -
Assasination of JFK
John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas near Parkland memorial Hospital. He was shot as he rode in his motorcade. he was our 35th president -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
the invasion of Czechoslovakia, also known as operation Danube was a joint invasion by 5 countries in the Warsaw pact; The invasion was lead by the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Austria -
The Berlin Wall
Not only was the Berlin wall a figurative barrier between western capitalists, and eastern communists, It was a physical concrete barrier separating Berlin into different districts. Eventually, it fell with the destruction of communism. -
Nixon visits china
During the early 70's, president Nixon visited china in an effort to lower tensions and normalize communications between the countries. It was the first time that the countries had communicated with each other in 25 years. Nixon not only was trying to communicate with china, but also lower tensions between the United States and the Soviet union. -
Reagan Elected
President Ronald Reagan was the republican nominee for the 49th presidential election. He defeated the democratic nominee Jimmy Carter by 489 electoral points. Him being elected lead to the start of the Reagan era, or a "conservative revolution". -
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
The SDI was first a concept introduced by Reagan do defend the United States against a military strike. It was supposed to be a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete. the way the system was supposed to work is that it would use a system of lasers to defer nuclear missiles from their landing point by jamming their navigation systems. -
Geneva Conference with Gorbachev
The Geneva Conference was held between United States president Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. they discussed many things, mainly reducing nuclear warheads. -
Fall Of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall Was torn down in 1991. It symbolized the falling of the iron curtain, and eventually, the end of the cold war. There is still much art on the parts of the wall that stand today.
