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Anti-War Movement
The anti war movement can be defined as a movement of the people against the action of startin a conflict or war and a movement against the use of military in a conflict or war. The estimated start of this movement was around this date as it was the first strict public movement. The last protests against a war in the US, was about Donbass in 2014. Of course, as long as wars or tension between countries are still lively, so will antiwar protests. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
This is Dwight D Eisenhower's birthday. He is the 34th president of the United States in 1953. He fought in the U.S. military as a general during WWII.He lead the invasion of France and Germany and was successful in doing so. Later he was dubbed the commander of NATO. -
Mao Zedong
This is the date Mao was born in the Republic of China. He is one of the founding fathers in the Republic of China. His marxist-lengingist theory beliefs lead his ideology in the communist party. He is also known as Mao Tse-tung. -
Lyndon B Johnson
This was the birthdate of the 36th president of the United States of America. He served in the Vietnam War. His initials are common throughout his family tree. He is from Texas! :) -
Richard Nixon
Ever heard of the Watergate Scandal? This was him! He was the 37th president after he was LBJ's Vice president. He served from 1969 to 1974, cut short and the first and only to ever resign from the office. -
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Jonas Salk
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John F Kennedy
JFK was the president after Eisenhower died. He was assassinated on his third year of presidency. Though he was cut short, he lead events such as the Space Race and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Also: I recently went to go see one act plays and one of them was about his affair with Marilyn Monroe. Quite interesting! -
Gary Powers
Gary Powers became an American pilot in the U-2 program of the United States C.I.A. While doing so, he photographed military instructions while in the Soviet Union. Sadly, his airplane was shot down during the Cold War in 1960. -
Roy Benavidez
Roy Benavidez was a Master Sergent in the US Army Special Forces. Before he started training for the special forces, he served in the US Army in 1952 in the Korean War. In 1981 he was honored by the Medal of Honor, for his success during the "6 Hours of Hell" in Vietnam. -
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie was an American social activist who took part in founding the social party "Yippies", which means "Youth International Party". He was a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and was involved in anti war protests during the time of the Vietnam War. In translation to modern day language he was a young rebel. -
House Un-American Activities Committee
The reason HUAC was created by the House of Representatives to look out for Nazis in the United States. After a while it was used for people who were pro-communism. This Committee wasn't very active until it came to the Cold War. -
War Powers Act
The War Powers Act, a.k.a. the Emergency Law, of 1941 was the first War Powers Act in the US. It was signed by FDR between Pearl Harbor and WW2. The whole purpose of it was to give more power to the president to take action in what happens during the war. -
The Iron Curtain
This is the day Winston Churchill gave his speech about how Europe is divided by communists and democrats. But The Iron Curtain was a border between three parts: the Soviet Union, the east in which is was communist, and the other trying to improve themselves -
Containment Policy
The Containment policy is a policy of the US government to stop the dissemination of communism in foreign countries, especially Europe and Asia. Because the Cold War, the United States was a little bit shooken up about communism growing like a disease, so this was basically the vaccine to avoid it in general. -
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The Cold War
The Cold War was the tension after World War II in which military powers fought each other. The Western powers with the majority of the allies against the Soviet Union in the East. In the time peiod of the Cold war belong some very important events like the Korean and the Vietnam War. The biggest powers of that time were the Soviet Union and the USA. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was issued by President Truman, because of the Greek Civil War. In that he argues, that if Greek and Turkey are drowsy during their war, it will enable communism to capture and hold the countries. Truman feared that this would have a domino effect and addressed that concern in a speech on this day. -
Marshall Plan
This is the date Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act. The year before, he had proposed this plan to help restructure the economy in Europe. This seemed like a good vaccine to stop the communist infection. Eventually that left us $13 billion short. -
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The Berlin Airlift
After WWII, The Soviet Union took East Germany and Britain took the west. The Soviet Union blocked the way to Berlin for the allies, which made it at first impossible to help out with supplies, food and medical care. Thankfully, allies in the West organized an airlift, that would open away to help Western Germany. They used the air force to fly supplies into the country on neutral ground and to leave the country. -
McCarthyism
This is the day that Joseph McCarthy made a speech, the first in it's administration. McCarthyism is a political term of the time of the Redscare which already was the second of its time. McCarthyism means being against unfair decisions or treason to narrow down political criticism. -
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The Korean War
The Korean War was one of the many wars during the Cold War period. The tensions grew between North and South Korea The beginning date was when the North invaded the South. The US supported the south while the Soviet Union supported the North and we guided them too fight back, eventually the two agreeing their boundaries where they were at in the first place. -
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The Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg Trial contained Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1951 between the WW2 and in the Cold War Era. They were accused to have given secret information about nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. On June 19, 1953 the Supreme Court decided to execute both the American citizens by torturing them on the electric chair until they died. -
The Domino Theory
The Domino Theory was believe from the 1960's up until 1980's. It said that if one country would become communists then the other states would follow and become communists as well. On April 7, 1954 Eisenhower gave a speech about the communism in Indochina. That was the beginning of the belief of The Domino Theory in the US. -
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The Vietnam War
This was another one of many wars during the Cold War. Out of two, this was the Second Indochina War. North and South Vietnam and Vietcong were all fighting. The United States backed the South up, but they weren't used to the guerilla technique to fight. -
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missilie Crisis was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, which was literally an inch from a nuclear war. This lasted for around 13 days. It was all crazy, the Soviet Union had missles in Cuba and the United States made a blockade, then the United States ordered them to deactivate them and put them away. The blockade ended on November 20, 1962 with an agreement that Cuba would not be invaded in exchange for the removal of missles. -
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The Great Society
Lyndon B Johnson made a speech May 7, 1964 at the Michigan University where he would first introduce this political program. This program was part of Progressivism and stood for fighting against proverty and racial injustice. In the time period when Great Society was popular, also other public programs were launched, that were issuing problems like medical care or urban problems. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tunkin Resolution was passed by the Congress on this day.President Johnson was allowed to do anything that he thinks is necessary to keep up the international peace and keep the protection from and with Southeast Asia. This would protect us from going back to the Vietnam/Korean War. -
The Tet Offensive
New Years 1968 the communists of North Vietnam worked together with the Viet Cong. They attacked the South Vietnamese. South Vietnam and the US, who supported them lost a lot of military and were strongly weakened as they weren't prepared for the attack. From this point on, the US was not as strong in supporting South Vietnam and in 1970 completely stopped supporting the South Vietnamese. -
Vietnamization
This is the day that Richard Nixon started this policy. It was a policy to end the involvement of the US in the Vietnam War. Afterwards South Vietnam got a hold of power in Vietnam. When US troops were evacuated from Vietnam, a lot Vietnamese tried to escape with them.
