history

By bigwaffle

  • United Nations formed

    Four months after the San Francisco Conference ended, the United Nations officially began, when it came into existence after its Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories.

  • Truman Doctrine

    The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."

  • Hollywood 10

    The Hollywood Ten is a 1950 American 16mm short documentary film. In the film, each member of the Hollywood Ten made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.

  • Marshall Plan

    Proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

  • Nato formed

    The Washington Treaty – or North Atlantic Treaty – forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – or NATO.

  • Korean War

    North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and rebellions in South Korea.

  • Space Race/Sputnik

    The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

  • Bay of Pigs

    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the United States.

  • Berlin Wall goes up

    the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall .between East and West Berlin

  • U.S. official enters Vietnam War

    United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989.

  • Berlin Wall comes down

    During the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe.