cold war thing

By neavehjohnson2@clarke.k12.ga.us
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    Events

  • japan

    U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan

  • Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech in Missouri.

  • Communism

    Unveiling of Truman Doctrine, announcing the U.S. would do everything in its power to contain communism

  • Mashall

    Marshall Plan enacted, providing American aid in rebuilding western and southern Europe, advances the Cold War significantly

  • Berlin

    Berlin Airlift shows American resolve against the spread of communism and Soviet aggression

  • NATO

    Creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • China

    China becomes communist, Republicans use event to paint Democrats as “soft on communism”

  • Baby boom

    record amount of births in a period of economic growth

  • McCarthy

    Senator Joseph McCarthy asserts he has list of communists in the State Department. Although he has no such list, McCarthy builds upon national fear of communism to make himself the nation’s most powerful individual. Eventually falls in 1954 after accusing the military of communist sympathies. Nonetheless, McCarthy defines the 1950s as a decade of suppression of left-leaning thought and action.

  • Bomb

    U.S. tests hydrogen bomb

  • Cold War

    elease of The Day the Earth Stood Still, beginning of science fiction films standing in for American fears about the Cold War

  • War

    Korean War

  • Cleveland

    First rock and roll concert in Cleveland

  • Execution

    Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for treason

  • Playboy

    Hugh Hefner launches Playboy magazine

  • Alabama

    Alabama Governor George Wallace runs for president on openly segregationist platform, wins significant support in North—rise of white backlash to civil rights movement.

  • Earth Day

    Environmentalism becomes prominent; first Earth Day protests, creation of Environmental Protection Agency to enforce increasing number of environmental laws and regulatory agencies.

  • Grizzly Bear

    passage of Endangered Species Act, leads to revival of threatened species such as the bald eagle, wolf, and grizzly bear.

  • President

    election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency

  • Election

    Disputed presidential election, Supreme Court gives election to George W. Bush, voting on a strictly partisan basis