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Truman approved H-bomb development
After the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project. With the help of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, Dr. Teller developed a model for the hydrogen bomb known as the Teller-Ulam design. -
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Truman fires Macarthur
Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands after MacArthur made public statements which contradicted the administration's policies. -
Death of Stalin
Joseph Stalin, 73 years of age, had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at 9:50 p.m. on March 5, 1953. Stalin died at the age of 74. He was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev. -
End of Korean War
War between north and south korea. Then united states fought for the south and china fought for the north which was also assited by the soviet union. War arrose from thr division of korea at the end of world war II and global tensions. -
Geneva Accords
This set of documents ended the French war with the Vietminh and divided Vietnam into North and South states. The communist leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh while the US friendly south was led by Ngo Dinh Diem. -
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union and 7 of its European satellites sighned a treaty establishing a a mutual defesnse organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of member states. -
Start Vietnam War
Cold War fight between US & USSR over world resources. South Vietnam allied with the US while North Vietnam allied with the USSR. US feared if North Vietnam won the other countries in Asia would fall to communisim. -
Hungarian Revolution
This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Soviet tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest. The Prime Minister Imre Nagy made a World broadcast that Hungary was under attack from the Soviet Union and calling for aid. Hungary -
Suez Crisis
Following military bombardment by Israeli forces, a joint British and French force invaded Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal which had been nationalised by the Egyptian leader Nasser. he attack was heavily criticised by World leaders, especially America because Russia had offered support to Egypt. The British and French were forced to withdraw and a UN peace keeping force was sent to establish order. -
Sputnik
A series of satilites launched into space by the Soveit Union. President Dwight D. Eisenhower called the shock the "Sputnik Crisis" because of the looming threat of the Soviet Union. During the Cold War, America was in a state of fear from the Soviet Union. Once the Soviets started to launch satellites into orbit, U.S. concern increased. -
Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow -
Fidel Castro
He established the first communist state in the western hemishpere. Castro's Cuba had a highly antagonistic relatioship with America. -
Soviet Union reveals that U.S. spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory
An international diplomatic crisis erupted in May 1960 when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers Confronted with the evidence of his nation’s espionage, President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) was forced to admit to the Soviets that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. -
Election of JFK
He was the 35th president of the United States. He established the Peace Corps, Nuclear Test Banned Treaty, and fought agianst communism in Cuba. -
Creation of Berlin Wall
IT was a fortified wall made to prevent East Germans escaping into West Berlin. It was one of the most visable signs of the cold war and the iron curtian -
Construction of the Berlin Wall Begins
People with West German DM could get goods very cheaply in the Eastern part of Berlin. The East German government saw no other way to prevent from escaping to the West via Berlin than closing the border between East and West Berlin -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. Closest Cold War event that almost escalated into something bigger. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified
Representatives of the United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in outer space, underwater or in the atmosphere. -
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. -
Battle of Ia Drang
Was the first major engagement of the war between regular U.S. and North Vietnamese forces, elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division fight a pitched battle with Communist main-force units in the Ia Drang Valley of the Central Highlands. -
North Korea captured U.S.S. Pueblo
A Navy intelligence vessel, is engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. The Americans attempted to escape, and the North Koreans opened fire, wounding the commander and two others. -
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact forces entered Czechoslovakia in a bid to stop the reforms known as 'Prague Spring' instigated by Alexander Dubcek. When he refused to halt his programme of reforms Dubcek was arrested. -
Apollo 11
A space vehicle that carried three American astronauts to the moon and back in July 1969. The vehicle consisted of a command module, which stayed in lunar orbit, and a lunar module, which carried two of the three crewmen to a safe landing on the moon. -
Publication of the Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The military analyst Daniel Ellsberg (who had worked on the study) came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be more widely available to the American public. He secretly photocopied the report and in March 1971 gave the copy to The New York Times, which subsequently published a series of arti -
Four Power Agreement Berlin
The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin. -
SALT I
It was the series of neogations between the united states and the soviet unuion on the issue of arms reduction. The discussion helped reduce the total number of missles each side would be allowed to have, thus easing the tension between the two. -
Cease Fire in Vietnam
When cease fire went into effect, Sagion controlled 75% of the south vietnams territory. The south vietnamese army was well equipped due to last-minute delievers from the united states. -
President Nixon Resigns
The scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support, a he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor. -
End of Viertnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, -
Fall of Sagion
The Fall of Saigon, or the Liberation of Saigon, depending on context, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
