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United Nations
Oct 24, 1945:
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Superpowers
America and Russia were teh superpowers that emerged from WW2. -
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Cold War Timeline
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Truman doctrine
Harry Truman asked congress for $400 million in aid for greece and turkey. This helped fight off communism. -
Berlin Blockade
This was when Stalin blocked all forms of transportation to Russian occupied Berlin. He did this becuase he did not want the western influence, due to them being against Communism. -
Marshall's Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $17 billion (approximately $160 billion in current dollar value) in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO
This is the, North Atlantic Treaty Orginization. This was formed in responce to communist Russias occupation of there part of Berlin. -
Joseph McCarthy
He was the senator of Wissconsin. He believed that he had a list of communist that were in the U.S government. This triggered the Red Scare this was when people went on moddern day witch hunt. -
landing at Inchon
America landded troops at the strategic port of Inchon -
38th parallel
This was the border between North and South Korea, the North crossed it provoking war. -
Jules & Ethel Rosenberg
The Rosenburgs were acused of being spies and were later found guilty. At the time thay had been working in the U.S. government. -
Vietnam War Begins
This was when the North Invaded the south in an effort to stop the spread of communism, this ended up being one of the biggest defeats for America. -
Warsaw Pact
This was the Communost Russias version of NATO. This was with Russia and other eastern Ueropean countries around Russia. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This was when the Americans sent in trained x-cuban to invade Cuba. It ended up being a fail, the Cubans got teh best of the Invasion. -
NASA
NASA was founded and started reseaching space exploration. -
Fidel Castro
Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades. -
Draft
When people are randomly selected to fight for America. -
Demilitarization Zone
There is a area right between North and South Korea were no state weapons can be to prevent war. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
J.F.K
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly known as Jack Kennedy or by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He was in office during the hight fo the cold war. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This was when Russia placed stratigic ballistic missles in Cuba 90 miles off the shore of Florida. This sparked a nuclear missle stand off. It almost caused nuclear war. This was ended when Russia and America came to an agreement. -
General Douglas MacArthur
He served in WW2 and in Korea until he was stripped of being a general. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Thsi was when, Lyndon B. Johnson, announced to expand America's campaign, in the north of Vietnam. At first the citizens were agianst it but he finally gave support. -
Che Guevarar
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. -
Vietkong
They were the Northern Rebels, or gorrilas on Vietnam. -
The tet offensive
This was when 70,000 viet kong, and northern troops fiercly attacked over 100 cities in South Vietnam. -
Detente
his was when tensions became better between Russia and Amercia. This was very important becuase it was a part of the start of ending the cold war. -
SALT Agreements
The SALT, or Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were held between Russia and The USA. This was held in Russia. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan became president in 1981 -
Star Wars
Ronald Reagan announces that he will start creating anti ballistic missle systems. -
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
He became the secratary of the Soviet Union he implemented his own ways of running the country and within five years he crumbled communism in eastern Europe. -
Glasnost
He was the secratary of the USSR around the fall of the USSR -
USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR and SU or shortened to the Soviet Union, was a Marxist–Leninist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991. -
Armistice
After three years of a bloody and frustrating 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. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of "limited war." -
Fall of Communist Russia
Communism in Russia Falls. -
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