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United Nations.
An organization formed in 1945 to raise the number of econimic and political cooperation. The organization works on economic and social development programs, Economic and social services were made to improve human rights and gradually removing global conflicts. -
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Cold War timeline.
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When did WWII end?
World War 2 started September 1, 1939 and ended September 2, 1945. -
Churchills Iron Curtain Speech.
Churchill giving 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 Soviet forces or communist countries. -
Marshall Plan
Eauropean Recovery Program. -
Berlin Airlift.
Military planes flew in food and other needed goods in West Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Its main prupose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through politcial and military means. -
USSR's First Atomic Bomb test.
Klaus Fuchs, a German born physicist, helped build the United States' first atomic bomb. These bombs were made to defend the country againsts the soviet union. Klaus was later arrested for secretly selling the bombs to the soviet union. -
Korean War
Ending July 27, 1953. The United States fought for South Korea and China fought for North Korea, which was also helped by the Soviet Union. -
China's Civil War
China's civil war started because there was a conflift between China's Nationalist government and China's Communist party. -
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 -
H-Bomb.
The Hydrogen Bomb is 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 Hydrogen bombs development. -
Stalin's Death.
Soviet Union's leader in the cold war. Died in 1953 due to a Cerebral hemorrhage. -
End of the Korean War.
The United States, the People’s Republic 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. President during the cold war. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization... an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty -
Warsaw pact.
Formed less than 2 weeks after West Germany joined NATO. -
Eisenhower Doctrine.
Promised military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression -
Sputnik
First artificial Earth Satellite. -
When Fidel took over Cuba.
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Bay Of Pigs
was an invasion into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista this invasion was led by Fidel Castreo -
JFK
He was elected in 1960 to be the 35th president of the United States and was born 1917 and was assassanatied in Texas, 1963 -
JFK Assasination
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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 each other because 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, 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
was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace -
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
