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Cold War
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"iron curtian" speech
Nine months after Sir Winston Churchill failed to be reelected as Britain's Prime Minister, Churchill traveled by train with President Harry Truman to make a speech.Churchill gave his speech in front of 40,000 people. In addition to accepting an honorary degree from the college, Churchill made one of his most famous post-war speeches. -
Independence granted to India and Pakistan
The Indian Independence Bill, which carves the independent nations of India and Pakistan out of the former Mogul Empire, comes into force at the stroke of midnight. The long-awaited agreement ended 200 years of British rule and was hailed by Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi as the "noblest act of the British nation." However, religious strife between Hindus and Muslims, which had delayed Britain's granting of Indian independence after World War II, soon marred Gandhi's exhilaration. -
Marshall Plan
was a plan to give money to western Europe. The money was to help rebuild Europe. So communism wouldn't happen. -
Berlin Blockade
Was one of the first crises of the cold war. The soviet union blocked the western allies. -
formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries. In 1997 a treaty of cooperation with Russia was signed and in 1999 Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic became full NATO members -
Communist Revolution in China
The Chinese Revolution was the second part of Chinese Civil War.It was the final stage of the chinese civil war. -
USSR gets the A-bomb
First implosion-type nuclear device. wanted to bomb the U.S. Was the second nation to detonate a nuclear device. -
McCarthy Witch Hunts
is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare. -
Korean War
the Korean War began when some 75,000 North Korean soldiers went across the 38th parallel, the boundary between South Korea(Democratic) and the the north Korea(communist). This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. -
ANZUS Treaty
Australia, New Zealand, and the United States sign the ANZUS Treaty.This compels the three countries to cooperate on matters of defense and security in the Pacific. -
Rosenberg Executions
The United States citizens convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war, and executed. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was in part a Soviet military reaction to the integration. -
Beginning of the Vietnam War
It was a war to get rid of communist in Vietnam(North & South). North vietnam won te war. -
Hungarian uprising
was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. It was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out the Nazis at the end of World War II and occupied Eastern Europe. Despite the failure of the uprising, it was highly influential, and came to play a role in the downfall of the Soviet Union decades later -
Sputnik Launched
Was the first artificial earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it. The missle took two months. It orbited about 1,400 times. -
Space race
The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in space exploration. Between 1957 and 1975, the Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority. -
Bay of Pigs
Unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba. Known as Hispanic America. The failed invasion strengthened Castro's administrations. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was constructed as a way of preventing East Berliners from entering West Berlin. It was not so much a boundary for West Berliners wanting to enter the East, who were able to do so by obtaining a permit several weeks in advance. It didn't face much opposition by the western powers as its construction confirmed that the Soviet Union were not planning to take over West Berlin.Official figures show that at least 136 people died trying to cross the border. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was when Russia was wanting bombs in Cuba aimed at the United States. It was happening during the Cold War. -
Kennedy Assassination
The assassination happened in Dallas, Texas.Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. It was a ten month investigation. -
Gulf of Tonkin
On 4 August 1964, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson erroneously claimed that North Vietnamese forces had twice attacked American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. Known today as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 7 August 1964, ultimately leading to open war between North Vietnam and the United States. It furthermore foreshadowed the major escalation of the Vietnam War in South Vietnam, which began with the landing of US regular combat troops at Da Nang in 1965. -
Mai Li massacre
was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Victims included women, men, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies were later found to be mutilated and many women were allegedly raped prior to the killings. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
It was a 444 day period.Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States.During the riot, six Americans escaped in the confusion and hid out in one of their apartments before finding refuge at the Canadian and Swedish embassies. -
Soviet/Afghanistan War
lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen. The insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as billions of dollars from the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. The decade-long war resulted in millions of Afghans fleeing their country, mostly to Pakistan and Iran. Hundred -
Gorbachev introduced Glasnost and Perestroika policies
"Perestroika" (restructuring) and "glasnost" (openness) were Mikhail Gorbachev's watchwords for the renovation of the Soviet body politic and society that he pursued as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 until 1991. Neither term was new to Soviet rhetoric. Stalin occasionally had used them as had his successors. The word glasnost actually appeared in Article 9 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution although without any practical application. -
Iran Contra Affair
was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.[1] Some U.S. officials also hoped that the arms sales would secure the release of hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. -
End of Warsaw Pact
more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall was the most awaited and looked forward by the majority of people in both East and West Germany, but, as usually, it happened unexpectedly. The day in November in 1989 became a very important day of the last century. Actually, last century was rich for historic and epochal events, but the fall of the Berlin Wall was expected to be symbolic and promising to be the beginning of great changes in the world to the better.
