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Selective Service
Helped draft men in the Vitnam war and WWI -
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POLICY OF CONTAINMENT (1944 – 1947)
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TRUMAN DOCTRINE
The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR, that the USA would intervene to support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority. -
MARSHALL PLAN
The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the second world war to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war. -
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BERLIN AIRLIFT ENDS BLOCKADE OF WEST BERLIN
Soviet blockade officially ended in May 1949, it took several more months for the West Berlin economy to recover and the necessary stockpiles of food, medicine, and fuel to be replenished. -
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COMECON
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NATO FORMED
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. The military alliance, which provided for a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression, greatly increased American influence in Europe. -
SOVIET UNION TESTS THEIR FIRST ATOMIC BOMB
It came as a great shock to the United States because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to possess nuclear weapon knowledge so soon. -
COMMUNISTS DEFEAT NATIONALISTS IN CHINA
Mao not only drew the enemy into the population centers with his forces fighting Guerrilla warfare, but he moved with people enthusing them and training them in tactics to fight the enemy. It wa the people who made it happen.
American help proved to be the "kiss of death" for the Kuo min tang army who became corrupt and moved far from the people. They relied heavily on latest arms and all that. -
CREATION OF FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY (WEST GERMANY)
The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was created in 1949 from the British, French and American zones of occupation in Germany. -
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KOREAN WAR
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf.
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STALIN’S DEATH
Though he is now considered responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people through famine and purges, when his death was announced to the people of the Soviet Union on March 6, 1953, many cryed -
SOVIETS LAUNCH SPUTNIK I INTO SPACE
As the tiny satellite orbited the earth, Americans reacted with dismay that the Soviets could have gotten so far ahead of the supposedly technologically superior United States. There was also fear that with their new invention, the Soviets had gained the upper hand in the arms race. -
BERLIN WALL ERECTED
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
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CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS (October 15 – 28, 1962)
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JOHNSON ESCALATES TROOP NUMBERS TO START VIETNAM WAR
Johnson steadily increased the number of U.S. troops deployed to Vietnam, hoping to ensure a U.S. victory before withdrawing forces. -
First Draft to Vietnam
With the use of selective service they sent men born between 1944 and 1950. Which was about 850,000 men. This was the first draft since 1942. -
NIXON SIGNS AGREEMENT TO WITHDRAW FROM VIETNAM
Nixon said the accord would “end the war and bring peace with honor.” -
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SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN
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BERLIN WALL TORNDOWN
It was torn down as a symbol of increasing freedom. The wall was not completely torn down on November 9th though. That is when it all started. People from all over came with sledgehammers and other devices to help chip away at the wall to bring it down. It took days and weeks to take that wall down completely
