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United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies. -
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
The long telegram explained Soviet motivations by pointing to the history of Russian rulers and their ideology of Marxism -
he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism -
the United States would help with political, military and economic aid to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
providing aid to Western Europe following World War II -
The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe -
Since the Soviets cut Berlin off of many necessities, the U.S. Army flew plans over to drop off food, coal and many other things. -
In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens -
to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means -
The Soviet Union accomplished their first nuclear bomb test -
The Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Mao Zedong, that resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China -
10 motion picture producers, directors,and screen writers went to the House of Un-American Activities Committee -
An American government official accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union -
Convicted for passing secrets of the atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets during and after WW II -
The war between the people who wanted a democracy (South Korea), and the people that wanted communism and a dictator (North Korea) -
Complete cessation of all hostilities in Korea by all armed force that was to be enforced by the commanders of both sides -
Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh -
a series of hearings held by the United States Senate to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy -
a treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization -
post-war Hungary's crippling development under Moscow's Soviet policies and oppression. -
the pilot of an American U-2 spyplane was shot down while flying though Soviet airspace. -
abortive invasion of Cuba -
to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. -
an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. -
Was shot and killed -
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. -
a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. -
the police riot in full swing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Democratic party's convention headquarters, the Conrad Hilton hotel, television networks broadcast live as the anti-war protesters began the now-iconic chant "The whole world is watching". -
the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard -
Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam's territory and 85 percent of the population. -
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon by North Vietnamese, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. -
President Regan was elected -
Reagan announced SDI in a nationally televised speech, stating "I call upon the scientific community in this country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." -
Reagan's stark challenge to tear down the Berlin Wall gave shape to increasing international pressure on Moscow to make good on its promises of openness and reform. -
political changes in Eastern Europe and civil unrest in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.