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First Geneva Convention.
The first of the four Geneva Convention treaties. -
The Iron Curtain Speech
The name given to the border that split Europe in two, managed by Soviet efforts, from the end of WW2, through the end of the Cold War. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. -
The Molotov Plan
Created to help Soviet allied countries, from the Soviet Union, similar to the Marshall Plan. -
The Marshall Plan
The U.S. giving Western Europe $12 billion dollars in support. -
The Berlin Blockade
One of the first international crisis in the Cold War. -
The Berlin Airlift
In response to the Berlin Blockade, Western Allies airdropped supplies to west Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Soviet First Atomic Test
Code named, First Lightning, after 1949, this test put the Soviets on the mapfor world powers with atomic technology. -
The Geneva Conventions
The Geneva Conventions were four different treaties, and three additional protocols. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Fought between the French and the Vietnamese between the months of march and may of 1954. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty among the Soviet union and seven other Soviet satellite states. -
The Vietnam War
Fought between the Soviet allied North Vietnamese, and the U.S.A. allied South Vietnamese. -
The Invasion of Hungary 1956
A nation wide revolt against the Hungarian peoples Republic, and its soviet imposed politics. This lasted from October the 23rd, through November the 10th of 1956. -
Korean War
The United States as the driving force came to the aid of the South Korean people hen the North invaded. -
U2 Incident
Occurring during the Cold war, when a U2 plane was shot down in Soviet airspace while doing photographic reconnaissance. -
Bay of Pigs
A failed invasion of Cuba carried out by the CIA. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a physical wall that divided Berlin, from 1961-1989. -
The Cuban Missle Crisis
Confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. -
JFK Assassination
The 35th president of the U.S.A., was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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Operation Rolling Thunder
This was mainly used to boost the morale of the Saigon Regime in Vietnam. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Officially known as Operation Danube, there was a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia by the four Warsaw Pact nations: The Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, and Hungary. Nearly 250,000 Warsaw pact troops were deployed that night. -
Nixon Visits China
One of the most important situations in which the United States started relations with China. -
Nixon Visits China
One of the most important situations in which the United States started relations with China. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
With Hungary refusing germans, they flooded over the wall and refused to leave. -
The Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns in Vietnam War.
