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HUAC (House Un-America Activities Committee)
HUAC was established to investigate allegations of communist activities in the U.S. during the early years of the Cold War. -
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Mao Zedong
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CIA
independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government.
function of the CIA is to collect information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and to advise public policymakers, but it does conduct emergency tactical operations and carries out covert operations, and exerts foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division. -
Chiang
Chiang and his government fled to Taiwan and communist took over and the US didn't like it. -
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Koren War
September 15, 1950: troops made a surprise landing behind the lines at Inchon, on Korea's west coast. Others moved north from Pusan and trapped half of North Korea troops surrendered
Truce began in July 1951 and was signed in July 1953
Korea at the end was still 2 nations and communism was contained without atomic weapons -
Sputnik
Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite. Sputnik traveled around the earth at 18,000 miles per hour, circling the globe every 96 minutes. Its launch was a triumph of Soviet technology. -
NASA
President Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958
The National Aeronautics and Space Act was passed on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). The agency became operational on October 1, 1958 -
Francis Gary Powers
a U-2 pilot
That flight took place on May 1
Four hours after Powers entered Soviet airspace, a Soviet pilot shot down his plane, and Powers was forced to parachute into Soviet controlled territory. The Soviets sentenced Powers to ten years in prison. -
Bay Of Pigs
March 1960, President Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train Cuban exiles for an invasion of Cuba.
April 17, 1961, some 1,300 to 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the U. S. military landed on the island’s southern coast at Bahia de Cochinos, the Bay of Pigs. -
Berlin Wall
Kennedy was thinking of Confrontation and that was why the Berlin Wall was built. The Wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city in two. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Castro had a powerful ally in Moscow: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who promised to defend Cuba with Soviet arms
During the summer of 1962, the flow to Cuba of Soviet weapons including nuclear missiles increased greatly. President Kennedy responded with a warning that America would not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba. Then, on October 14, photographs taken by American planes revealed Soviet missile bases in Cuba and some contained missiles ready to launch. -
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Kennedy announced that the two nations had established a hot line between the White House and the Kremlin. So both of the them talked it out and later that year, the United States and Soviet Union also agreed to a Limited Test Ban Treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere.