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WW2 Ended
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United Nations
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Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
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Truman Doctrine
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Marshall plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO
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USSR nuclear test
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Start of the Korean war
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Stalin's Death
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End of the Korean War
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Seato
It was formed by the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan. Neither Pakistan or France liked the US support in Vietnam. But in 1977 the SEATO was completly disabandoned -
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria were the countries in the Treaty. Albania was kicked out in 1962. but it all ended in 1991 -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history -
Eisenhower Doctrine
It promised military or economic help to any Middle Eastern country needing it in resisting communists. -
Sputnik Launch
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Fidel Took over Cuba
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bay of pigs invasion
Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president. -
Francis Gary Powers
He flew a secret mission over the capital of the Soviet Union Moscow. He was caught and sent to pison for 10 years but was released after two, in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel -
John F Kennedy
JFK was the president of the US. He tried to attack the ongoing war on segregation. -
Berlin Wall
The berlin wall was constructed to stop the flood of refugees from East to West, and it did defuse the crisis over Berlin. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba -
The Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Lyndon B Johnson
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Richard Nixon
the 37th U.S. president, is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. -
Nasa First Moon landing
American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. As he set took his first step, Armstrong famously said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The Apollo 11 mission occurred eight years after President John Kennedy announced a national goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. http://www.history.com/topics/apollo-11 -
Salt 1
It was the series of negotiations between the united states and the soviet union on the issue of arms reduction. The discussion helped reduce the total number of missiles each side would be allowed to have, thus easing the tension between the two. -
Gerald Ford
who left the White House in disgrace over the Watergate scandal. Ford became the first unelected president in the nation’s history. A longtime Republican congressman from Michigan, Ford had been appointed vice president less than a year earlier by President Nixon. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/gerald-r-ford -
Jimmy Carter
As the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter struggled to respond to formidable challenges, including a major energy crisis as well as high inflation and unemployment. In the foreign affairs arena, he reopened U.S. relations with China and made headway with efforts to broker peace in the historic Arab-Israeli conflict, but was damaged late in his term by a hostage crisis in Iran. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/jimmy-carter -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The long-term impact of the invasion and subsequent war was profound. First, the Soviets never recovered from the public relations and financial losses. The war created a breeding ground for terrorism.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-tanks-roll-into-afghanistan -
Miracle on Ice
Compared to the American amateurs, the Soviet team was a murderer’s row of seasoned professionals and stars. In 20 years, the United States had managed to beat the Soviets only once, when they pulled off an upset win at the 1960 Olympics -
Us Boycott of the summer olympics
President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. -
Ronald Regan
former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989. http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/ronald-reagan -
STAR WARS
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Soviets Leave Afghanistan
More than eight years after they intervened in Afghanistan to support the pro communist government, Soviet troops begin their withdrawal. The event marked the beginning of the end to a long, bloody, and fruitless Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-begin-withdrawal-from-afghanistan -
George Bush Sr.
In office, he launched successful military operations against Panama and Iraq; however, his popularity at home was marred by an economic recession, and in 1992 he lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton. -
Tiananmen Square
Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/tiananmen-square-massacre-takes-place -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” “Open the gate!”. At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall -
Gorbachev come to power
State power was handed over to the Congress of People’s Duties of the USSR, the Soviet Union’s first parliament, based on democratic elections. On March 15, 1990, the Congress of People’s Duties elected Gorbachev the first president of the Soviet Union. http://www.biography.com/people/mikhail-sergeyevich-gorbachev-9315721#general-secretary -
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe in both democratic and free market reforms, and played a big role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. On December 31, 1999, Yeltsin gave a address announcing his resignation and asking the Russian people’s forgiveness for past mistakes. He then handed off power to Vladimir Putin. http://www.history.com/topics/boris-yeltsin -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. However, Gorbachev was disappointed in the dissolution of his nation and resigned from his job on December 25. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/fall-of-soviet-union
