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Dwight D. Elsenhower
United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany
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WWll
the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf Hitler had committed suicide. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/war/end.html -
united nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations -
Churchhill's iron curtain speech
former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/churchill-delivers-iron-curtain-speech -
Truman Doctrine
was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine -
marshall plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=82 -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/berlin-airlift -
NATO
is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO -
First atomic bomb test
General Interest 1949
Soviets explode atomic bomb
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At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” In order to measure the effects of the blast, the Soviet scientists constructed buildings, bridges, and other civilian structures in the vicinity of the bomb. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb -
China Civil War
Because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT), there was a fight for legitimacy as the government https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War -
Korean War
The Korean War was started when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China, along with assistance from Soviet Union, came to aid of North Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War -
H-Bomb
the United States conducted its first nuclear test of a fusion device, or “hydrogen bomb,” at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/nov-1-1952-first-hydrogen-bomb-test/?_r=0 -
Stalin's Death
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death
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Fidel Castro
Movement victory Overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's government Establishment of a socialist state and Communist government, led by Fidel Castro United States embargo against Cuba
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End of Korean War
The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China,
The United Nations, with United States as the principal force, came to aid of South Korea. China.
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Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War
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Eisenhower Doctrine
in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.
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Sputnik
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which , was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
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MAD plan
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender (see pre-emptive nuclear strike and second strike). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction -
Bay Of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Girón, was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba. -
John F Kennedy
commonly referred to 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.
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Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy,
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JFK Assasination
Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
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NASA's First moon landing
Additional flight objectives included scientific exploration by the lunar module, or LM, crew; deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth; and deployment of a solar wind composition experiment, seismic experiment package and a Laser Ranging Retroreflector. During the exploration, the two astronauts were to gather samples of lunar-surface materials for return to Earth.
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SALT
the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) buildup designed to reach parity with the United States. In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defense system around Moscow.
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States
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Francis Gary Powers
was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident. -
Solviets Invade
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups fought against the Soviet Army and allied Afghan forces.
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Miracle on ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.
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U.S boycott of the summer olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was 40th President of the United States
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strategic Defense Initiative
also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.
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Gorbachev Power
in Privolnoye, Russia. In 1961, he became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990.
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Soviet war in afghanistan
Then, from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started to leave Afghanistan. This continued until 2 February 1989. On 15 February 1989, the Soviet Union announced that all its troops had left Afghanistan.
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George Bush Sr.
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who was 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and 43rd Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
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Tiananmen Square
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident or '89 Democracy Movement in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations
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Berlin Wall
about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West... Like on Facebook.
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall. 9 November 1989 marks the infamous fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Berlin Wall Falls
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
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Collapse of the soviet union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics abbreviated to USSR or shortened to the Soviet Union, was a socialist state on the Eurasian continent that existed between 1922 and 1991
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