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1st Geneva Conference
This treaty protects the wounded soldiers or civilians in a time of war -
Iron curtian
Winston Churchill gave a speech that said a iron curtain has fallen dividing Europe -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
First battle in Indochina where the French were defeated by the Vietnamese -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine provided any country fighting communist powers military, and economical aid to help prevent the spreading of communists nations -
Molotov Plan
Created by the soviet union to aid the soviet aligned countries in rebuilding them after WWII -
The Marshall plan
This allowed the U.S. to give eastern countries money to help prevent the spread of communism, help battle starvation and famine in the effected countries from WWII, the U.S. spent over $12 billion. -
Berlin Airlift
The Soviets, United States, United Kingdom, And France split Germany into 4 parts to each rebuild, Berlin was located in the Soviets portion and was debated on whether or not the soviets would absorb it into their control -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviet union tried to limit the ability of France, Great Britain, and the United States to be able to provide for their sectors of Germany -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to provide peace to the Northern Atlantic region, It is a diplomatic military power that will help countries fight injustice -
Soviet atomic bomb test
The Soviet scientists who worked on the bomb got some of their information from the soviet spies spying on the Americans creation of the atomic bomb, the scientists were awarded with the award of "heros of socialist labor", however if they had instead failed they would have been executed -
Geneva Conference
Representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China, France, and Great Britain came together to try to resolve problems in Asia such as the Vietnam war, America would not directly fight in the war to keep the tension between the U.S. and the soviet union at bay -
Operation rolling thunder
The U.S. military was bombing North Vietnam attacking military points and key strategic positions for fighting the war, the U.S. ended up dropping more bombs in Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder than they did during WWII -
WarSaw pact
The soviets version of the western NATO treaty in where the soviet union and seven of its satellites farmed a treaty in which if any one of the members is attacked then they all go to war against the country -
Invasion of Hungary
This event started when Hungarians protested for a more democratic system free of soviet oppression. The soviets complied and withdrew their troops but when Hungary withdrew from the Warshaw pact the soviets invaded and took Hungary over again. -
Tear down this wall speech
Ronald Reagan made a speech challenging the soviets to tear down the wall separating east Germany from west Germany -
Berlin Wall
Originally the wall built in between west and east Berlin was supposed to keep west Berliners out of east Berlin, but it soon became something to trap east Berliners in soviet control -
Assassination of Diem
The assassination oh Diem and his brother helped the U.S. by getting rid of the communist leader trying to take Vietnam into communism -
Assassination of JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald, killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas Texas while he was campaigning when he won his presidency -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
The U.S. destroyer Maddox was fired upon by a Vietnamese torpedo boat, two days later they were attacked again in Vietnam -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive, (named after the Vietnamese holiday Tet) was a attack on over 100 small cities carried out by north Vietnam, the goal for this operation was to spark a rebellion out of south Vietnam -
Assassination of MLK
James Earl Ray was a racist who planned and executed the assassination of MLK in Memphis -
Assassination of RFK
RFK was shot by Sirhan to show support for Israel -
invasion of Czechoslovakia
On august 20th 1968 the soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to gain more land for their communist empire, by doing this it prohibited the splintering of communism in the east -
Riots at Democratic convention
Tens of thousands of Vietnam protesters gathered outside of the Democratic convention to help stop the war -
Election of Richard Nixon
Former vice president Richard Nixon won the presidency -
Ken state shooting
This resulted in the deaths of 4 unarmed students during a riot to prevent the invasion of Cambodia -
Nixon visits China
Nixon visits china to help bring the two countries back together and to make relations with them, by doing this, Russia invited Nixon to discuss relations -
Cease fire in Vietnam
The cease fire in Vietnam did not work, both sides continued to take territory during the ceasefire but justified their actions by the others failure the continue the cease fire -
Fall of saigon
The fall of saigon was when south Vietnam's capital was taken over by The Peoples Republic Of Vietnam -
Election of Regan
Reagan negotiated nuclear arms reduction with Soviets, cut taxes, and increased deference spending -
Announcement of SDI
SDI was a shield in outer space that would shoot down any nuclear misses the soviets would fire at the US -
Fall of the Berlin wall
The soviets built a barbed wire wall to keep east Germans in east Germany, on November 9th 1989, the soviets announced the Germans could cross freely therefore letting the Germans tear down the wall
