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The End of WW2
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Iron Curtain Speech
A speech given by Churchill that is one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War. -
Molotov Plan
A system created by the Soviet Union that provided aid to rebuild countries -
The Truman Doctrine
The U.S would provide political, military and economic help to all democratic nations that were under threat from external or internal forces -
Hollywood Ten hearings
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the HUAC. They received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios -
The Marshall Plan
An economic recovery act -
Berlin Airlift
June 24 1948-May 12 1949
The U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. They carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo. -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet Union blocked the Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Soviet Bomb Test
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb. To measure the effects of the blast, scientists constructed bridges, buildings, and other structures, in range of the bomb. -
Alger Hiss Case
an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury -
Korean War
North Korea invade south Korea. United States aid the south and the soviet union aids the north -
Rosenberg Case
Julius and Ethel were spies for the Soviet Union. Put on trial and executed -
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Vietnam War
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The battle of Dien Bien Phu
the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
series of hearings nvestigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy -
Geneva Conference
A conference to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina. -
The Warsaw Pact
A treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union -
The Invasion of Hungary
Soviet tanks came to stop Hungarian protesters -
National Convention in Chicago
The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of MLK -
U2 incident
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 -
Berlin Wall
A barrier that divided Berlin from East Germany. From 1961 to November 9 1989 -
Cuban Missile Crisis 13 days
Kennedy is told cuba has missiles and over the next 13 days resolves the crisis -
Assassination of Diem
Diem and his brother were both brutally murdered -
Assassination of JFK
He was shot twice, in Dallas, Texas, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing president Johnson to do anything he believed was necessary to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
series of bombs against North Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army against the South Vietnamese -
Assassination of MLK
James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis -
Assassination of RFK
Kennedy was shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the hospital six hours later. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
About 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. -
Election of Richard Nixon
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey -
Kent State shootings
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
Nixon visits China
Nixon's historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.
Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side’s violations of the cease-fire. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan -
SDI (Star Wars)
a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons. -
'Tear Down This Wall' speech
Reagan makes a speech in front of the Berlin wall to tear it down -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
wall gets teared down
