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1st Geneva Conference
The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, held in 1864 -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill's famous speech about how the USSR has evil polices and it casts a iron curtain over Europe -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a policy that Truman announced to congress on March 12, 1947 -
The Hollywood Ten
Ten people involved in the Hollywood film industry denounced the actions of the (HUAC), an investigative committee of the U.S. House of Representatives -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov Plan was the plan that the USSR created to help rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were with the Soviets. -
The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American plan to help anyone in Europe to rebuild in a the way of capitalism -
The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift 1948–1949, were the United States, England, and the USSR divided and took over Germany, Berlin was located deep inside the Soviets controlled area -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss was accused of being a communist in 1930 -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty was singed on the 4th of April, 1949. It was a alliance formed with the United States, England, France, Netherlands, and Luxembourg -
The Berlin Blockade
The first major event of the Cold War, were the Soviets blocked the western side of Germany, railroads, roads canals, everything to the East side. -
The Korean War
The Korean War happened because the North invaded the south, with the aid of China, and the USSR while the United Nations and United States helped the South -
Rosenberg Case
Rosenberg Case Overview. Julius Rosenberg was arrested in July 1950, a few weeks after the Korean War began. “Conspiracy to Commit Espionage.” He was executed with his wife -
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The battle of Dien Bien Phu
One of the first fights in the Indochina war, with the French and the Vietminh -
Army–McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. -
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Geneva Conference
The Geneva Conference (April 26 – July 20, 1954) was a conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, and the reason for the convention was to sort out a solution for the outstanding problems that were going on in the southern Asian part of thew wiorld -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty that was signed in Warsaw that included many countries saying that any member would come to aid if another member is attacked by a enemy -
The Berlin Wall
The wall the the East occupied Berlin build to contain the Germans. Isolating themselves from the west, and the rest of the world -
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Assassination of Diem
November 2, 1963, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The date and the place where Diem was assassinated -
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Assassination of JFK
November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX The date and place JFK was killed by a lone gunman -
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Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
china's first nuclear test
It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. -
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Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunder was a bombing campain -
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Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, by the Vietcong -
Assassination of MLK
April 4, 1968, Memphis, TN MLK was shot by a lone gunman -
Assassination of RFK
Rober Kennedy, commonly known by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the United States junior senator until he got dead -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Four countries that were part of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
protesters protested outside the DNC about Vietnam -
Election of Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon won the -
Kent State shooting
Kent state shooting was the shooting that involved the national guard and unarmed college students May 4, 1970 -
Nixon visits China
Unexpectedly Nixon makes a visit to establish relationships with the republic of china -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
Ceasefire in Vietnam A cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m., Saigon time (midnight on January 27, Greenwich Mean Time). January 27, 1973 -
The Vietnam War
Started in 1954 and ended in 1975 -
The Fall of Saigon
The capture of southern Vietnam's capital by the north April 30, 1975. -
Election of Ronad Reagan
The 49th quadrennial election Ronald Reagan ran and won in the biggest landslide ever against Jimmy Carter -
Strategic Defense Initiative
"Star Wars" was a proposed missal defense system that would be put in place to protect the United States from missiles from the USSR -
'Tear Down This Wall' speech
The speech Reagan made and told the leader of the Soviet Union about the wall that divided Berlin -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
This was the tearing down of the Berlin Wall that divided the east and west side of Berlin -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
Due to Soviet spy's the USSR was able to construct and test their first atomic weapon in 1949
