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Presidents in Office
the elected presidents, four died in office of natural causes William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, four were assassinated Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy, and one resigned Richard Nixon. -
The Suez Canal
an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. -
End of WWII
Japanese delegation formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri. There was multiple events going on at this time. -
The Red Scare
promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. -
The Yalta Conference
some of the presidents made some important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world. -
The Creation of the United Nations
an organization that had similar circumstances during the first World War -
The Long Telegraph
American charge daffaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Truman Doctrine
it was announced by Truman that foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. -
The Creation of NATO
the Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Berlin blockade and airlift. Berlin blockade and airlift, international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers -
Marshall Plan
the plan was that the American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion. -
McCarthyism
the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
The Korean War
War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. -
Duck and Cover
civil defense training film that was widely distributed to United States schoolchildren in the 1950s. -
The Rosenbergs
United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union -
The Warsaw Pac
the military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. -
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
