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UNited Nations
an organization formed in 1942 to raise number of econimic and palitical cooperation. It works on economic and social development programs. They ere made to improve human rights and gradually removing global conflicts. -
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Cold War timeline
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When did WW2 end
The war started started sept. 1, 1939 and ended sept. 2, 1945 -
Churchhills Iron Curtain Speech
Churchhill gave a speech about the Soviet Union. How he will condemn the Soviet Unions' policies. -
Truman Doctrine
The U.S should give support to countries threatened by the Soviet forces or communist countries -
Marshall plan
Eauropean Recovery Program -
Berlin Airlift
Military planes flow food and supplies into Western Germany -
NATO
The north atlantic treaty organization. Its main purpose is to safe gaurd the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. -
USSR's First Atomic Bomb Test
Klaus Fuchs, a German born physicist, helped build the untied states' first atomic bomb. These bombs were made to defend the country againsts the soviet union. Klaus was later arrested for secrectly sellijng the bombs to the soviet union. -
Korean War
Ending july 27, 1953. The U.S fought for South Korea and china fought for North Korea, which was also helped by the Soviet Union -
China's Civil War
This started because there was conflict between China's Nationalist govern. and China's Communist party -
H- Bomb
THe Hydrogen Bomb is a weapon. "Since no limit exists to the destructiveness of this weapon, its existence and knowledge of its construction is a danger to humanity as a whole" Said Oppenhiemer, Fermi, and Rabi who opposed the H- Bombs Development -
Stalin's Death
Soviet Union leader in the cold war. Died in 1953 due to a Cerebal hermorhage -
End of the Korean War
The U.S, the people's Repunlic of China,North Korea, and South Korea agree to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an End -
Dwight D Eisenhower
the 34th president of the united states. He was president during the Cold War -
SEATO
The south asia treaty organization. an international org. for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by Southeast Asia Collective treaty. -
Warsaw pact
Formed less than 2 weeks after West Germany joined the NATO -
Einsenhower Doctrine
Promised military or economic aid to any MIddle Eastern country needing help in resisting the communist aggression -
Sputnik
First artifical Earth Satellite -
Bay of Pigs
was an invasion into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista this invasion was led by Fidel Castreo -
When Fidel took over Cuba 1959
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Vietman War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. It ended in april of 1973 over 3 million people including 58,000 US people were killed -
J.F.K
He was elected in 1960 to be the 35th president of the United States and was born 1917 and was assassanatied in Texas, 1963 -
Berlin Wall
It was a wall that was put up to seperate Western and Eastern Germany and was ordered to be taken down by President Ronald Reagan in 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict -
J.F.K killed 1963 in Texas
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Lyndon Johnson
was the 36th president of the U.S in 1963 to 1969 before he was the president he was vice president to JFK -
MAD plan
the superpowers would refrain from attacking eachother becuase of the certainty of mutual assured destruction -
Richard Nixon
he became the 37th president of America. He was born janurary 9th 1913 and died april 22, 1994 -
NASA moon landing
This was the biggest leap for man kind. The astronauts aboard the Apollo 11 were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -
SALT
SALT I, the first series of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, extended from November 1969 to May 1972. During that period the United States and the Soviet Union negotiated the first agreements to place limits and restraints on some of their central and most important armaments. In a Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems, they moved to end an emerging competition in defensive systems that threatened to spur offensive competition to still greater heights -
gerald ford
he was the 38th president and Ford became the first unelected president in the nation’s history. A longtime Republican congressman from Michigan, Ford had been appointed vice president less than a year earlier by President Nixon. He is credited with helping to restore public confidence in government after the disillusionment of the Watergate era. -
Francis Gary Powers
an American pilot whose Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union air space. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter struggled to respond to formidable challenges, including a major energy crisis as well as high inflation and unemployment. In the foreign affairs arena, he reopened U.S. relations with China and made headway with efforts to broker peace in the historic Arab-Israeli conflict, but was damaged late in his term by a hostage crisis in Iran. Carter’s diagnosis of the nation’s “crisis of confidence” did little to boost his sagging popularity, and in 1980 he was soundly defeated in the gen -
Soviet Union Invasion
lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups, who received aid from both Christian and Muslim countries, fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces -
Miracle on Ice
The winter Olympics was held in a small village in upstate New York. The US team brought home 12 medaks total and five gold due to the amazing Eric Helden, this broke records in the books -
Boycott Olympics
President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan was our 40th president and he was an Actor he was born Feb. 6th 1911. He was the governor of Cali from 1961 to 1975 -
STAR WARS
President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative a ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed "Star Wars." -
Gorbachev came to power 1985 to 91
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The Soviet Union left in 1989
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George Bush SR
Was the 41st U.S. president from 1989 to 1993. He also was a two-term U.S. vice president under Ronald Reagan, from 1981 to 1989. Bush, a World War II naval aviator and Texas oil industry executive, began his political career in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1967 -
Wall falls 1989
Berlin wall taken down by Ronald Reagan -
Berlin wall falling
the berlin wall fell in 1989 and this action was made by president Reagan to join eastern and western Germany again -
tiananmen square
Also Known as June Fourth Incident. were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the first half of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999 -
Collapse of the Union
the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
