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Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. -
Jamestown
America's first permanent English colony. Settled in Virginia in 1607. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Start of Slavery
Slavery started in the 1620s. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States. -
French and Indian War
War fought between the colonies of Britian and France, with the help of the Native Americans. -
Treaty of Paris
The signing of the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian war. Britain gained much of the French territory in North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
New tax imposed on American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used. -
Boston Massacre
British troops fired on innocent colonists in Boston, resulting in the death of 5 colonists. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists protested the taxes on tea by dumping tea into the Boston Harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention that included delagates from 12 colonies that met at the Carpenter's Hall in Philedelphia. -
Lexington and Concord
The first battles that would start the Revolutionary War. -
D-Day
Allied invasion of Normandy, France in operation overlord during World War 2. -
Division of Germany
After Germany's unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945, the Allies divided Germany into four military occupational zones. -
Hiroshima A-Bomb
One of the two atomic boms that was dropped on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. -
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Europe and Asia, in which the United States gave $13 bilion in economic support to help rebuild European economies. -
NATO
Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949. -
Communist takeover of China
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Korean War
War between North and South Korea in which a UN force led by the U.S. fought for the South and China fought for the North. -
Eisenhower
34th president and led Operation Torch in North Africa and the invasion of France and Germany. -
Julius & Ethel Rosenburg
American citizens who were executed for conspiracy to espionage, relating to passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact
Collective defense treaty among communist states in Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Sputnik
The first artificial Earth satellite. -
U2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down in Soviet airspace. -
JFK
35th president of the U.S. until his assassination in November 1963. -
Berlin Wall
Barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Confrontation in October 1962 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over Soviet missles deployed in Cuba. -
JFK Assassination
JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX.
