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The Cold War by Maggie Freese
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Bombing Of Dresden
Bomber of the British Air force dropped 3,900 tons of explosives on the city of dresden. Took place in the last few months of WWII in theeuropean theater. During the 4 raids 25,000 people were killed and over 16,000 acres destroyed. -
Mussolini Assassinated
Shot and killed. Planned by Colonnello Valerio. National Liberation Commitee gave Valerio the order to kill Mussolini. Mussolini asked him to shoot him in the chest and so he did, After Petacci , who was covering Mussolini, was shot. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Commited suicide on April 30th by gunshot in his Fuhrurbunker. Era , his wife, also commited suicide by consuming cyanide. Their remains were carried through the emergency exits. Their burnt remains have been discovered in successive locations. In 1970 they were cremated, and their ashes were scattered. -
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
iron curtain was an imaginary line that separated the eastern euro countris that were allied with the soviets from the non communist countries.winston churchill called it the iron curtain in a speech while in missouri -
Potsdam Conference
Joseph Stalin , Winston Churchill, and Harry S. Truman met in Germany from July to August to sign over terms for the end or World War II. -
U.S Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
Was and is the first use of nuclear weapons in war time. killed 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Later on Japan surrendered. -
Truman Doctrine
provide military political and economic assistance to all demcratic counrties in threat from authorical forces.arose from a speech before congress -
Marshall Plan
United States suported the European Economy after WWII ended. To prevent soviet Communism from spreading. PLan was to rebuild buildings detroyed by the war. remove the trading bariers and modernize the industry. -
Creation Of israel
David Gurion announced The state of Israel on May 14. The Arab-Israeli war announed Israel as independent state. Eygpt and israel signed severed cease fire agreements. -
Berlin Air Lift
east berlin i believe was cut off fro west berlin and the rest of germany. to help with the low supplies in berlin, america and britain would send supplies to them through aircraft transportation. -
Formation of NATO.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Many Western European countries gave mutual security aganist the Soviet Union. It was the very 1st peacetime military association the United States belonged to outside of the Western Hemisphere. -
Korean War
korea was split because of the two different gov. systems.we backed up south even though their leader was bad.south was demo and north commies. -
Stalin Dies
Died of a natural causes. In Moscow at 9:50 pm. Put in the display hall of colums for short period of time .Later on taken to Lenins Tomb. . -
Suez Crisis
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Vietnam War
US didnt want vietnam to become a communist country so they went in or some shit. it was in control by the the french till they were ran out by ho chi min and his group. -
Sputnik I & Sputnik II
sputnik was first sattliet ever released into our orbit.made by the ussr.Sputnik 2 was the first to carry a live animal, also released by the soviet -
NASA is formed
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Part of the United States Government that is liable for Nations civilian space program and also for aeronautics and aerospace research -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Was Cuban exiles unsuccesfull invasion of Cuba. Was invaded on the southwest coast by 1,500 cuban exiles. It was financeally taken care of and directed by the United States government. -
Berlin Wall
Built by the German Democratic Republic. Isloated West Berlin from Eat Germany. Built to Protect the popluation from fascist and to keep them in.Guards in towers kept watch on the concrete barrier. The wall was brought down in 1989. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
soviets placed missles in cuba we had missles in turkey at the time the little stand off lasted for 14 days. -
Kennedy is Assassinated
he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and that guy was killed by Jack Ruby. He was killed next to his wife by a sniper to the head in the back seat of a car. -
USS Pueblo
North Korean Forces caputered USS Pueblo. They believed that USS was in their waters. It is the only ship being held captive. -
Nixon visits China
it was a step in forming a better relationship with china.Ended 25 years of seperation .He was the 1st president to visit Chine. -
Paris Peace Accords
Stopped the fighting between north and south vietnam for a short amount of time. Suppposed to end the Vietnam War and bring peace to vietname. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
52 american citizens and diplomates were help hostage for 444 days. Jimmy Carter called called them victims of terrorism and that the United States will not give in to black mail. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
52 americans were held hostage for 444 days.The hostges belonged to a group supproting the iranian revolution. -
U.S. & Soviet boycotts of the Olympics
was a form of protest against the soviet invasion of afganistan. -
Dissolving of the Soviet Union
The Commonwealh of Independent Sates was aknowledged. President stepped down.Their economic policies tended to fail. -
Iran Contra Affair
regan administration sold stuff to iran to fund nicaraguan contras. some hoped that some sales would help several hostages get out -
Chernobyl disaster
Nuclaer accident the happened in the Ukraine.The nuclear plant exploded and the place had to be evacuated. No ones lived there since -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
protest in the tiananmen spquare in china became extremley vilent when military forces opened fire on citizens and killed thousands.
