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Communist Takeover
Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao took over China and brought them to communism in June of 1921. -
Red Scare
Anti-communist acts in the United States took place during this time. Joe McCarthy fueled most of this wit hhis false accusations. -
HUAC
House of Un-American Activities Committee; it was established by the House of Representatives to have anti-communites investigations. -
Yalta Conference
The head officials of the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union all met to discuss World War II's "post-war recognization." -
UN Created
United Nations: with the main goal of world peace, it aimed on the ajustments to human rights along wit heconomic, military and international issues. -
Potsdam Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and Truman met. Stalin had his own ideas about everything they had planned on discussing. Since Churchill and Truman did not agree upon what Stain was saying, the Cold War began to form. -
Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear weapons being made first and by whom was the "most important thing" at this time. The United States and the Soviet Union went at it, constantly trying to find the most efficient ways to out-do the other with weapons. -
Communist Takeover
On September 1, 1945, North Vietnam became communist, but in 1975, South Vietnam became communist when U.S. troops left. -
Truman Doctrine
The United States supported most European countries with economic and military aid and relief. -
CIA
The United States government created the CIA to be responsible for protecting United States citizens as it did in the Cold War. -
Hollywood Ten
The Hollywood Ten was a Holleywood blacklist. Because of McCarthy, famous actors, actresses, singers, or any other occupation relating, were blamed and/or suspected of being communist, so most were foreced out of work and denied employment. -
Communist Takeover
Communism took over North Korea in 1949 by Kim Il Sung. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan gave European coutnries plenty of relief, physically and mentally, from the United States during the Cold War. The United States helped them by providing every day things. -
Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift
The United States and United Kingdom (who were allies of the U.S.) transported all kinds of supplies for the Soviets via airplane. Over 200,000 flights were made in one year! -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; it formed alliances between over twenty-two countries in the world against their enemies. -
Joseph McCarthy
In the 1950s, Joe McCarthy blamed people for being communist in the United States. He was a senator from Wisconsin. His false accusations were believed by many Americans because they had nothing else to believe in. He developed McCarthyism from all of his fake blame. -
Korean War
This war was between North and South Korea. The war consisted of both sides continuously attacking one another, mostly out of surprise. President Truman involved the United States and we further helped South Korea because we did not want them to be turned to communism. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty among all of the eight communist countries. This formed their alliance against NATO. -
Leaders
USSR: Joseph Stalin
US: Harry Truman
Cuba: Fidel Castro
China: Mao Zedong
Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh -
Sputnik
The Sputnik was the first satellite ever in outer space. It was launched by the soviets in late 1957 before the United States could send anything out to space. -
Space Race
The Soveits and the United States were in the competition to see who would get to outer space first. The United States got defeated by the Soviets as they sent "Sputnik" to space. The Soviets launched the first artificial satellite ever in the world. -
NASA
NASA was and is responsible for all happenings in space and it was first created after the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was Vietnam against France. When France decided that they would remove themselves from the war, the United States took over. The reason for the war was because the United States was against communism and we wanted to continue containment. It ended on April 30, 1975. -
Communist Takeover
In 1959, Fidel Castro took over Cuba, making it a communist country. -
U2 Crisis
A United States' airplane was used to get information of the Soviet's government by getting pictures from above. The United States was spying to get information on the Soviets. -
Bay of Pigs
The United States' CIA invaded Southern Cuba in hopes of overthrowing communism in Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall divided West Berlin from East Berlin. Families were dived and rare visits occured. The wall divided the communist side from the democratic side. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The United States took their "unknown" missles out of Turkey because we had convinced the Soviets to take their missles out of Cuba. The United States had the missles pointed directly at the Soviets and the Soviets had their missles aimed directly at the United States. -
Vietnam War: Escalation
The escalation of the Vietnam War was the spread of communism. The United States wanted to keep the act of containment up and Vietnam was doing the exact opposite. -
Tet Offensive
It was a military campaign during the Vietnam War on January 30, 1968. It was the Vietnam army against the United States army and our allies. -
Vietnamization
This was President Nixon's plan to take United States troops out of war and gradually let South Vietnam take control. -
Kent State
There were a lot of shootings and deaths on May 4, 1970 because of students expressing their agreement or disagreement with the war going on.
