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Iron Curtain Speech
After failing to get reelected Winston Churchill traveled with president Harry Truman to a small town called Missouri town of Fulton. There is where he addressed 40,000 people withhis famous iron curtain speech. -
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Cold War
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The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine would give aid to Turkey and Greece to prevent them from falling in the soviet sphere. The USA would provide money and military aid. -
North Atlantic Treaty Orginization
The North Atlantic Treaty Orginization consists of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It was founded in order to end Communism expansion. -
Soviet Bomb test
The Soviet Union tested there first nuclear bomb this test to americans is known as Joe1. The test was successful making the Soviets the became the second nuclear power. -
france bomb test
France succesfully tests there first atomic bomb. Gerboise Bleue was the scientist and they tested it in the middle of the Algerian Sahara Desert. -
President Nixon
Richard Nixon becomes the 37th president of the United States of America. -
Nixon Visting
Nixon visits China, the first visit by a U.S. President since the establishment of the People's Republic of China. -
Vietnam
North Vietnam wins the war in South Vietnam. The South Vietnam regime falls with the surrender of Saigon and the two countries are united under a Communist government. -
Space Race
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project takes place. It is the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. The mission is seen as a symbol of détente and an end to the race to outer space. -
Olympics
The United States and its allies boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics (July 19-August 3) in Moscow. -
President reagan
Ronald Reagan is inaugerated as 40th president of the united states. -
Soviet Union
Konstantin Chernenko is named General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. -
Soviet union
Gorbachev announces in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly that the Soviet Union will no longer militarily interfere with Eastern Europe. -
President Bush
George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as 41st President of the United States. -
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
the Berlin Wall was both the physical boundry of Berlin and east germany from 1961 to 1989. It was the symbol between democracy and communism.
