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Armistice SIgned Ending Korean War
The Armistice", is the armistice at the end of World War I, on 11 November 1918, signed near Compiègne, France, and effective at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." -
HUAC formed
The House Committee of Un-American Activites was formed to investigate the House of Representatives -
Yalta Conference
Meeting of leaders of the U.S. the U.K. and the Soviet Union to discuss the reorganization of states in War-torn Europe -
United Nations Formation
ORganization founded in 1945 to promote peace -
Potsdam Conference
Meeting in Germany of the US UK and USSR to discuss the punishment of the defeated NAZI's -
Truman Doctrine
Promise by Truman to help nations strugling against communist movements. -
Marshall Plan
Foreign policy that offered aid to Western European countries after WWII -
Berlin Airlift
Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supples to West Berlin during a Soviet Blockade.. -
NATO formation
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance formed to Soviet expansion -
Era of McCarthyism begins
Era of Anticommunism. -
North Korean INvasion of South Korea
The North Korean Inasion of South Korea caught the United States and South Korea themselves wholly by surprise but tey pulled through and succeeded. -
Rosenberg Execution
Family that was found guilty of relaying military secrets to the Soviets. -
Warsaw Pact
MIllitary alliance of the Soviet Union and the Satellite States -
Sputnik
Soviets launch a satelite into space. -
First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was a Soviet cosmonaut -
First American in Space
Alan Shepard was the first American in space. -
Creation of the Berlin Wall
Built by the German Republic to separate Berlin from East Germany. -
FIrst man on the moon
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
