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Yalta Peace Conference
As World War II was coming to an end, this was the meeting that occured between Winston Chruchill, Joseph Satlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Potsdam Conference
This was a meeting which took place in Potsdam, Germany in order to negotiate terms for the end of World War II. -
The Marshall Plan
This is known as the European Recovery Program (ERP). The Marshall Plan was when when America helped rebuild European economies which followed tha war. -
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Brelin Airlift
Following the end of World War II, America, British, and the Socievt militart forces divided and occupied Germany. -
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Berlin Blockade
This was an attempt for the Soviet Union to limit France, Great :Britain, and the United State's ablilities to get to their places of Berlin. -
US Military Desegregatied
Allowing other races into the military -
Communist Revolution in China
This was when the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power once it was at its highest. -
Soviet Union Test First Atomic Bomb
Soviet Union exploded their fisrt atomic bomb. This was a great shock to the Unites States because they were not prepared for them to have such weapons. -
Eisenhower Sends Troops to Vietnam
He sent troops as advisors to the militar once the French were defeated and left the country. -
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Korean War
This was due to the conflict which was occuring between Communist and non communist forces in Korea. -
McCarthy Hearings Begin
Joseph McCarthy begins hearing which they investigate the US army. -
Brown v. Board of Education decision is handed down
Hadned down its ruling in the landwark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Kansas. This decision handed down ended the federal tolerance of ravial segregation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a 13 month mass protest that ended with the US supreme court ruling taht segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till Murder
Till was kidnapped and murdered brutally because he was said to have whistled at a white women. -
Federal Interstate Highway Act
This bill created a 41,000 mile national system of interstate and defense highways that would eliminate unsafe roads and such. -
Little Rock Central High School Crisis
A group of nine Africa American students who were enrolled in this school. Thier enrollment lead to this crisis. -
Sputnik I is launched
The world's first artificial satellite. Technical achievement. -
John F. Kennedy elected President
Youngest to be elected president. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
He obtained a truce in Korea.