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WWI (World War 1/First World War)
World War 1 was the world’s first global conflict. It was also known as the “Great War”. It pitted the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against the Allied forces of Great Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Italy and Japan. The introduction of modern technology to warfare resulted in unprecedented carnage and destruction, with more than 9 million soldiers killed by the end of the war in 1918. -
Dust Storm
A three-day dust storm blows an estimate of 350 million tons of soil off of the terrain of the West and Southwest. Some east coast cities were forced to ignite street lamps during the day to see through the blowing dust. -
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
The Berlin Airlift
Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply-flying night and day to feed the city. -
First Atomic Bomb
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb. The test, known to Americans as Joe 1, succeeds as the Soviet Union becomes the worlds second nuclear power. -
"Invasion of South Korea"
North Korea invaded South Korea, which began the Korean War. The reason was to seek ways of forming one united communist government between the two nations. The war is also known to have been supported by USA as well as twenty other countries of the United Nations. -
Crossing of the 38th parallel
United Nations forces crossed the 38th parallel, into North Korea. On September 11, President Truman adopted the arguments of his military advisers while heeding the National Security Council’s call to avoid provoking Communist China and the Soviet Union. -
President Harry S. Truman
President Harry S. Truman signed the Mutual Security Act. It was announced to the world, its communist powers in particular, that the US was prepared to provide military aid to "free people". "Free people" in others words meant achieve peace in Korea. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
On January 20, 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President and Richard Nixon as Vice President. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the Oath of office to Mr. Eisenhower. -
Ending of the Korean War
After three years of a bloody war, the United States, the People's Republic of China, North and South Korea agreed to an armistice, bringing the Korean War to an end. The armistice ended America's first experiment with the Cold War concept of "limited war." -
West Germany Joins NATO
Ten years after the Nazis were defeated in World War II, West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense group aimed at containing Soviet expansion in Europe. Germany had been a divided nation since 1945. -
"The Warsaw Pact"
The Warsaw Pact was founded in Eastern Europe and East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union. It acts as the communist military counterpart to NATO. -
Vietnam War
The cold war was a fight between the United States and the USSR over the world's resources. South Vietnam was an allie of the US and North Vietnam of the USSR. -
Death of Senator Joseph McCarthy
Senator Joseph McCarthy succumbs to illness exacerbated by alcoholism and dies at the age of 48. In 1957, Joseph was hospitalized, suffering from numerous ailments all exacerbated by cirrhosis of the liver. He passed away in Bethesda, Maryland, and was buried in his home state of Wisconsin. -
Sputnik
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957. -
Bay of the pigs
The Bay of Pigs refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to knock Fidel Castrow off track. It was a plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Thanks to President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted. -
Neil Armstrong
American citizen Neil Armstrong is known as the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened as soon as it got built up. There had already been signs that the Communist bloc was weakening. -
Dissolution of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on December 16, 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
