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Atomic Bomb
United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, Hiroshima -
The Iron Curtain Speech
Where Churchill gave the phrase that surprised the United States and Britain, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." -
The Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War -
The Molotov Plan
The system created by the Soviet Union to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Europe and Asia that were politically/economically aligned to the Soviet Union. -
The Marshall Plan
It was an American initiative to help/aid Western Europe and to also help and give economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies. -
The Berlin Airlift
After World War 2 ended, U.S., British, and the Soviet Union military divided and occupied Germany. -
The Berlin Blockade
An attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin -
NATO
Is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
1st Geneva Conference
For the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the. Field -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear bomb test, called RDS-1 -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Geneva Conference
A conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, whose purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
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The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet states in Central/Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
The Invasion of Hungary
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies -
U2 incident
When a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Assassination of Diem
The brutal murder of the president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, a major turning point in the war in Vietnam. -
Assassination of JFK
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
The name given to America's sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. -
Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese -
Assassination of MLK
He was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had come to lead a peaceful march in support of striking sanitation workers. -
Assassination of RFK
He served as the United States junior senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Soviet Union led troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets -
Election of Richard Nixon
The United States presidential election of 1968 was the 46th quadrennial presidential election. -
Kent State Shooting
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students -
Nixon visits China
Was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
President Richard Nixon of the USA ordered a ceasefire of the aerial bombings in North Vietnam. -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam -
Announcement of SDI
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
The United States presidential election of 1984 was the 50th quadrennial presidential election. -
'Tear Down This Wall' speech
Was the challenge issued by United States President Ronald Reagan to Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall, in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate near the Berlin Wall -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. That night, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself
