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Ayatollah Khomeini *
Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Came to power in the year 1979. Lead the way of many revolutions that the followers of the Islamic Republic of Iran soon followed. Was the first and only Muslim leader to combine politics and religion. -
Assembly Line
The assembly line was a much faster way of moving and producing products. Founded by Ford after finding that with more people doing little jobs then the process will speed up. -
Louis Armstrong
Was a very famous New Orleans jazz musician, he was also very liked by the African America population because he showed the "Jazzy" part of being an African American -
Iron curtain *
The iron curtian was a imaginary boundry in which the soviet union and its allies but a barrier between themselves and the rest of the world, exceept to start problems. On one side of the coin you have the USSR and their allies and on the other you have the USA and thier allies. 1941-1995. -
Containment *
Containment was a policy the United States put in place after the Cold War to try the spread of communism. Mainly towards Russia. but this policy spread to cover the entire world. After the moves of by the Soviet Union the Americans believed they needed to try and contain the spread of communism to other surrounding countries. -
Baby Boom
A time period where the soldiers were returning from war and they wanted to "celebrate". Because of this celebration many babies were born. -
Marshall plan *
The Marshall plan was the aid the Americans gave to the Europeans after the end of WWII. The program was put in place to try and stop the spread of communism and open up trade routes. It lasted for over 4 years. -
Apartheid *
A desegragration of whites in the nation of Africa by the African Americans trying to get the whites out. During the time of 1948-1994 the National Party was ruling of South Africa. Seperated the races by 4, white, native, colored, asain. -
Berlin Blockade *
The first fight to kick off the Cold War. USSR and Germany blocked off the airways and railways to Berlin, which is one of the major "ally" power controls. The Germans and USSR idea was to cut off supply to Berlin forcing the allies to give up control to USSR. -
Berlin airlift *
After a British plane was crashed by the impact given by a Soviet Union plane. After months of negotiations between the allies and Soviet Union the allies decided to take a massive chance and attempt to deliever supplies by dropping crates from airplanes overhead. -
NATO
NATO was short for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is a treaty put in place to always have backup incase of an attack on your country someone else would help you out. -
Korean War*
A war fought between the Republic of Korea and the United Nations. The Koreans were backed by many other outside forces like the likes of the Soviet Union and the Republic of China. Mostly because of the fallout of WWII and all the treaties signed and agreements reached by these nations. -
Vietnam war *
The Vietnam war was a post WWII fight between North Vietnam who was supported by China and South Vietnam who was supported by the USA. Once again the United States got involved due to the fact that they wanted to stop the spread of communism from the North Vietnamise to the rest of the world. -
Warsaw Pact formed
Warsaw is a shortened word for Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance. It was a 8 way defensive plan after WWII of multiple communist state. -
Sputnik 1
First unmaned spacecraft that was launched by the Soviet Union. Was used to give scientist the density in outer space. -
First Hydrogen Bomb
USA was first to try to test the Hydrogen Bomb which just showed how far the bomb race has gone. -
Great leap forward *
This was the attempt to modernize and raise the economy of China. After Mao Zing came to power he wanted to make China into a power. So he basically looked at America as a sort of "Standard". But fighting between the political parties so it ended in 1963. -
Peace Corps.
A United States voulenteer group as an effort to rebuild America or help rebuild another country. -
Bay of Pigs *
The unsuccessful attack was an attempt to rid the communist country of Cuba of its communist dictator, Fedel Castro. The team of Brigade 2506 was intercepted and defeated by the Cuban armed forces lead by Castro. The fighting took all of 3 days to stop. -
Alliance of progress.
An effort by JFK to create a stable goverment by turning North and South America by contributing around 80 milion dollors a year. -
OPEC *
An abbreviation of the Organization of the Perroleum Exporting Coundtries. OPEC is the a group of individuals trying to protect the major oil producing countries.. OPEC is used to make rules the countries follow to make sure they will continuseally gain money. -
Tet Offensive *
A military campain by the Viet Kong and North Vietnam against Southern Vietnam and The United States. The campain was a series of suprises attacks of civillians and goverment officals.The reasoning behind the name was due to the fact that it was during a time of a "cease fire". More then 800,000 troops for the communist attacked more then 100 cities during this campain. -
Apollo 11
Was the first spaceship and its crew to land on the moon. The crew included Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. Launched from the Kennedy Space Stations in Flordia. -
Watergate *
The Watergate was a massive attempted cover-up by Richard Nixon to try and not tanish his name. After a burgulary the FBI tried the stolen money back to a "slush fund" that helped the president get re-elected. Nixon ended up becoming the first and only president to resign from the United States Presidency spot. -
1972 Olympics *
Was a international sporting event where people from around the world would come and compete in sporting events. But this years games was held in Germany which is the sight of the recently destroyed Holocaust. So the USA stayed out of the games. The games were a major disaster, with riots, beatings, kiddnappings, and killings. -
Camp David accords *
Camp David accords was a treaty type bill that was signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. It was also witnessed by former US president Jimmy Carter at the White House. The negotiations took over 14 months to have everybody involved aggre. -
Iran Hostage situation*
The Iran Hostage situation was a huge capturing of over 50 United States citizens. The situation started after some Iranian extreamest took over the USA embassady in an attempt to strike fear in the USA. The movie Argo was a potrail of this incident. -
Rise of internet.
The internet was a idea of communication throughout the world. Its hopes were to be able to have a letter travel the world in a blink of the eye. -
Perestroika & Glasnost Truman plan *
It was a time of "restructering" and "openness" in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. The USSR's is said to begin dieing after this was introduced. Many believe that the Cold war was ended by this thought. -
Berlin wall breached
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Tiananmen Square Massacre *
Protest by the students in Bejing. Thousands of unarmed civilians killed by the goverment, who were armed with the weapons they used for their duties as a military.The riot was brought up by the former communist leaders death, Hu Yaobang. -
NaFta*
NAFTA stands for "North American Free Trade Agreement" which is an agreement between America, Canada, and Mexico giving all those involved to trade freely to whoever and whatever they want. -
Spainish Civil War
The spainish civil war was a major fight for freedom, while not many people got involved in the fighting it was Hitler and Mussolini that helped the fight. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie was the person who broke the color barrier in the MLB (major leauge baseball). But was not very liked by the other players. -
Lou Gehrig
A former MLB player that went to help in the war efforts but came down with an unknown disease. The name is now given after the player. It is called Lou Gehrig's disease.
