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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded 4 years after WWII ended. NATO was deseigned as a task force stopping potential wars breaking out in Europe, NATO is even still around today but more as a giant police force, -
Harry S. Truman MSA
The Mutual Security Act was appointed towards the Soviets but the U.S. provided support and "military aid" to countries that had "Free Peoples". -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the United States president and promises to fix and handle what the Soviets are doing to the other countries occupation and influence. -
Sputnik Launch
The Space Race was booming during the 1950's - 60's. It was a big shock to the U.S. when the Russians launched the very first satelite into space; Sputnik 1. When Sputnik lauched the citizens of the U.S. got extremely frightend by the idea of a satelite over them that was Russian made. -
Fidel Castro
In 1959 Fidel Castro became the Prime Minister of Cuba and when he did he insisted and made Cuba into a communist controlled territory were he became the prime suspect for the Cuban Missle Crysis. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The U.S. sends in a sum of 2,500 ex-cuban forces to the Bay of Pigs. Forced surrender and capture of these Cubans led to the U.S. fleeing Cuba for a time. -
Berlin Wall
Late in this year the Berlin Wall was built with the Communism on one side and the Democratic parties on the other. -
Hotline
Established in 1963, the "Hotline" was a direct communication line between Washington D.C. and the Kremlin. They disscused treaties, Peace, Vietnam, and threaten eachother on the Tele. -
Chinese Atom Bombs
In this day, China blew up its first Nuclear object giving China some ground in the Nuclear foothold -
U.S. Starts sending troops to South Vietnam
This is when President Lyndon B. Johnson started sending troops to help defend South Vietnam from the Communist-Controled Viet Cong. -
Tet Offensive
The largest campaign during the war, the Viet Cong and some rebel Vietnamese people. Under the influence of the Soviets along with some reinforcements pushed into South Vietnam rightfully destroying the Southern people and driving the U.S. of the soil. -
South Vietnam taken over by Communism
This date is the day the U.S. ran from Vietnam with their tails between their legs due to the South parts of Vietnam being overrun by Communists during a 2 hour rushing period. -
Berlin Wall Demolition
When East Germany allowed migration to the West just a few monthes prior, people knew that the wall was now just an object in the way. So what people did was destroy the wall and there was no more East vs. West but just Berlin. -
Soviet Union is Abolished
In 1991 the Soviet Union finally fell and Boris Yeltsen began his reign of the now abolished Russia. Boris spent years trying to fix Russia from the Soviet Union collapse, but when his terms were over he kinda left it in a slightly better but not fixed state.
