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Marshall Plan
It was America's way to help Western Europe rebuild their economies after America gave them money.
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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a way the Western Allies was able to carry supplies over to the people of West Berlin despite the size of the cities population.
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Joe McCarthy's Career in the Senate
Joe McCarthy started out as quiet and kind of reserved senator. Then in February 1950 gained his public charge with a speech saying he had a list of 205 communists. He gained the support of the population by making them fear communists.
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Creation of NATO
NATO also is known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that was signed for members to agree to implement mutual defense response by an outside party.
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First Successful Soviet Nuclear Weapon Test
The Soviet's had their first successful nuclear weapon test under the name RDS-1 at the Semipalatinsk test place. The weapon ended up yielding 22 kilotons.
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Korean War
In the Korean War, North Korea had the support of China and the Soviet Union while South Korea had the support of the United Nations and parts of support with the United States.
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Start of the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg took place in a New York District federal court. The couple got convicted of selling nuclear secrets to Russia. It could not be considered treason because the United States and the Soviet Union were not a war with each other. The trial lasted about a month and was sentenced to death row.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-rosenberg-trial-begins
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First Hydrogen Bomb detonated
The United State first hydrogen bomb detonated on 11/01/1952.
The USSR first hydrogen bomb detonated on 08/12/1953.
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The Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower
President Eisenhower did multiple things over his nine-year span in office. One thing Eisenhower he did help strength Social Security E. Eisenhower also made a huge new Interstate Highway System. Lastly, he discredited Senator Joe McCarthy's major anti-Communist ideas.
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The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American boy. Emmet was visiting Money, Mississipi with family when got viciously murder for supposedly flirting with a white woman a few days prior.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
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Rosa Park/ Montgomery Bus Boycott
Started by the controversy of Rosa Parks arrest a few days before. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a nonviolent protest to stop the racial segregation on public buses.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/montgomery-bus-boycott
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The Hungarian Uprising
The Hungarian Uprising was a student protest that attracted thousands of people. The march was from central Budapest to the Hungarian Parliament building. As this event went on and information went out disorder and violence erupted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
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The Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine is a group of nine colored skin kids denied their right into their Little Rock, Arkansas high school by the National Guard. Then a few weeks later they came back allowed to integrate into the school by the federal government after the Brown v. Board of Education after it was determined unconstitutional.
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The Launch of Sputnik 1
On the 4th of October in 1957 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan the first successful artificial satellite. This launch marked the start of the first Space Race.
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4397868/Sputnik-1-launches--October-4--1957 -
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Nikita Khrushchev as the Premier the Soviet Union
During Nikita Khrushchev time as Premier of the Soviet Union, he did many different things. One thing Nikita did was approving the construction of the Berlin Wall. Also, Nikita kept a peaceful partial existence with West. Lastly, he tried to take awake some of the effects of Joesph Stalin.
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Loving v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia was a battle between a mixed race couple and the state of Virginia. The couple, Richard Loving and Mildrid Jeter, were awoken by the police in the middle of the night and arrested for breaking the law that says no interracial couples which were a felony at the time.
https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/loving-v-virginia
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Cuba goes communist (Castro takes over)
Cuba slowly started going communist until in December when rebels kicked Batista out of his position. Cuba got to get put into the communist society state. Which lead Castro to have power.
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U2 spy plane shot down
While America was spying over the Soviet Union the American U2 spy plane was shot down after disappearing while flying over Russia. The shooting of the pushed off a meeting President Eisenhower had later on in the month with the Soviet Leader.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-u-2-spy-plane-shot-down
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John F Kennedy is elected
John F Kennedy was elected as the 35th president on November 8, 1960. His election was the first one that includes all 50 states and the last one that District Columbia did not. In this election demoncratic, John F Kennedy beat Republican Richard Nixon.
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First man in space
A 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin boards the Vostok 1. He becomes the first human to travel in space and orbit the planet.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-04-12/russian-cosmonaut-and-first-man-in-space-yuri/2620174 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military attack on Cuba by the CIA. It was made up of a group of people exiled people who left once Castro's takeover and part of the US military.
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Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was an almost two-week confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It started by America noticing soviet missels's in Cuba. This is the closest they ever got to a nuclear war confrontation.
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First American troops arrive in South Vietnam
The first US troop landed on a China beach in a group of 3500 marines to defend the American air base.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html
https://www.cfr.org/blog/twe-remembers-first-us-combat-troops-arrive-vietnam
