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The Cold War
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General Douglas MacArthur
General Douglas MacArthur was a military general during WWI, WWII and the Korean war. On december 1944, General Douglas MacArthur recieves the five star ranking for a general. this rank was second highest in the army. Second only to George Marshall. -
The United Nations
The united Nations was created to premote international co-operation. It was also started to prevent anouther world war. -
The Truman Doctorine
$400,000,000 in aid was sent to greece and turkey to send American people and weapons to tose countries. -
Marshall plan
The united states sent 17 billion dollars to help rebiuld europe after WWII. -
Berlin Blockade
The Russians wanted to cut of west berlin from getting supplies but the us flew it over. -
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Cold War Timeline
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Nato
A treaty was started to protect countries from soviet russia. At this time throught the cold war, two superpowers fought each other with proxywars and testing of nuclear bombs to show of their power. -
Joseph mcCarthy
Joseph was the senator of Wisconson until his death. -
Korean war Part II
In the Korean war, and armistice was called which ment a truce. -
The korean War
the Korean war was a war between North Korea and South Korea. When the North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel between North and South Korea, then war began. At the demilitarized zone, this is the place where is a line and one side is north and the other south, the gaurds will watch each other to see if they cross the line. If they do then they will be shot. During the Korean war, The landing at Inchon was a tide chager and gave the U.S. the upper-hand. -
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg where both soviet spies that gave the soviets classified information of the atomic bomb. -
Warsaw Pact
A treaty formed by the USSR between the eastern eurpean countries. To counter Nato. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War was a war where the Viet cong trained by the Soviets to take Vietnam as a communist country. so the U.S. sent troops to fight. Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam and plotted attacks. Later after to U.S. destroyers got blown up by Viet Cong torpedos, the United States created the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to give president Johnson unlimited power to protect military forces in responce to the torpedo attack on U.S. waters. -
Vietnam War part II
During the Vietnam war, The United states army was running out of soldiers so they needed people to go fight in the vietnam war. This is called a draft when an army needs more soldiers. This was the last Draft ever created by the United States. -
Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev was a Russian Polition who led the USSR though part of the Cold War. He was a Major player in the cuban Missile crisis. -
NASA
NASA was created in response of The USSR's first satilite in space, the Sputnik -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall sepeated west Germany and surrounded east Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Misile Crisis was when the Soviets put nukes in Cuba aimed at the U.S. The U.S. put Missiles in Turkey and greece aimed at Russia. So they came to an agreement to take missile out of Cuba, Greece, and Turkey. During the Cuban Missile crisis, the U.S. tried to invade cuba at the Bay of Pigs which was a public beach, so the cuban military came quickly so the invasion was unsucessful. Fidel Castro was the prime minister of cuba and welcomed the soviets when they put nukes in cuba. -
John F. Kennedy
Was the 35th President and was assassinated in Dallas Texas. -
Che Guevara
Che Guevara was a revolutionary who helped Castro get to power. He was an aurthor, a guerrilla leader and a physician. -
The Tet Ofensive
The Tet Ofensive was a hostile attack to south Vietnam. It was a suprise attack and started the U.S. to losing the Vietnam War. -
The Salt Agreement
They Salt Agreement was the limit of nuclear weapons. It also had made detente to lower exlations between the U.S. and the USSR. -
Ronald Reagan and Star Wars
Ronald Reagan was the president when the USSR collapsed and created a program called star wars. -
Glasnost
Glasnost was a policy to increase transparency and openess in soviet gov activities. Mikhail Gorbachev started this policy -
Communism collapse
The USSR had 15 countries break of signalling the end of the USSR and the Cold War. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was founded dec. 30th 1922.
