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Bolsheviks Communist Party
Bolsheviks
They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917. They were feared across the world for being a very strong party that might one day rule the world. -
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Benito Mussolini Becomes Dictator
Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his ousting in 1943. In 1926 Mussolini seized total power as dictator and ruled Italy as the leader from 1930 to 1943. Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism. -
Benito Mussolini Becomes Leader
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wins Election
FDR FDR was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. A dominant leader of the Democratic Party and the only American president elected more than 2ce -
Adolf Hitler Elected
Adolf Hitler Hitler was elected in 1933 as the leader of Germany. When he has became the leader of Germany He brought much change to the world and Germany. Not all this change was positive at all. In fact He brought much pain to the Jews and to the world. He created wars that many people died in and he was a dictator that chaged the way Germany ran. -
Harry S. Truman
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House Un-American Activities Committee
Formed in may 1938 the house un-american activites committee (huac) investigated disloyalty among american citizens. -
Munich Agreement
The picture of the Czech Refugees found hereAn agreement signed in the Early hours of the 30th of September of 1938. This Settlement Permitted Nazi Germany’s Annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Areas along the country’s Borders. It was negotiated at a conference held in Munich. Regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Picture of Minister Molotov signing the pact found hereSigned on August 23, 1939. This Pact, The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pact, Was an agreement between the two countries that they would not attack each other. This Pact protected Germany from a two-front war in WWII. -
Lend Lease Act
Lend Lease ActThe act was passed on March 11, 1941 and by President Roosevelt. This allowed the U.S. to lend war supplies to any nation since FDR wanted to support Britain. The act was created after Roosevelt have promised to keep America out of the war. -
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter Atlantic Charter or the result after the Atlantic Charter Conference ,was made by FDR and Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom to maintain peace and security. The meeting shown inthe picture was one of the step to develop the United Kingdom. -
Hideki Toji
Tojo became prime minister on 16th October 1941, He initially backed the foreign office's efforts to reach agreement with the United States. However, when convinced that a negotiated deal was possible, ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7th December, 1941. -
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor was an Japanese attack on the US.S. naval base. The attack started on Oahu, territory of Hawaii at 7:53 A.M. and another one at 8:55 A.M. This act caused the U.S. and Japan to have many casualties by attacking the Pear Harbor to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Planes, battleships, and others were destroyed as well as this USS SHAW. -
Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project 1942-1945. U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. -
Japanese American Internment Camps
Japanese American Internment Camps Japanese American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called War Relocation Camps, in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The internment of Japanese Americans was applied unequally throughout the United States. -
Korematsu V. United States
Korematsu V. United States This copy of a certified copy made in 1967 was one of the documents filed in the case of Korematsu V. United States. Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, an American Citizen of Japanese descent was involved in this case for refusing to go to the interment camp in California . -
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
Picture of the GI Bill found hereThis law provided Benefits for returning WWII veterans. These benefits included Low-cost Mortgages, Low-interest Loans to start a business or farm, cash payments of tuition and living expenses to attend college, high school or vocational education, as well as a years unemployment compensation. -
Douglas Macarthur Promoted to General
In december 1944 douglas Macarthur was promoted to general of the army. He is one of only 5 people to achieve that rank. in 1945 he was appointed supreme allied commander southwest pacific. -
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference The leaders of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States attended this meeting at the Crimean Peninsula City of Yalta to decide the fate for post-World War 2. -
Cold War
Cold WarPotential causes of the Cold War: American fear of communist attack, USSR fear of atomic bomb, USSR action in the Soviet zone of Germany -
United Nations
The United Nations Charter was written at the organization's first meeting from April 25 to June 26, 1945. Fifty delegates from around the world met in San Francisco to create the new international peacekeeping organization. The United Nations (UN) was formed to encourage the peaceful resolution of conflicts and to maintain world order, goals established in the initial charter and evidenced in the UN's prominent role in world events in the subsequent years. -
Los Alamos Atmoic Test
Los Alamos Atomic Test The first atomic bomb test or the "Trinity" explosion was tested at the National Labratory of Los Alamos, New Mexico. This explosion was the result of the Manhattan Project's work and people started using nuclear weapons because of this powerful explosion. -
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference The Potsdam Conference or the meeting of the Allies was held at Potsdam in July 1945 . This meeting was to clarify ideas that were given at the Yalta conference. -
Atomic Bomb
Atomic Bomb On August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 80,000 killed. “Little Boy.” On August 9, 1945, a second bomb killed between 60,000 and 80,000 people. Bomb was named “Fat Boy.” Another bomb was supposed to be dropped but they decided against it. -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Nagasaki This letter was received from General Thomas Handy to General Carl Spaatz. The letter was given to authorize the dropping of the first atomic bomb, since Harry S truman wanted to drop nuclear weapons on two Japanese cities to make them surrender. -
Joseph McCarthy
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Iron Curtain
[Iron Curtain](The political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non-communist areasFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” -Winston Churchill)The political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non-communist areas.“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” -Winston Churchill -
Iron Curtian Speech
Image found hereOne of Winston Churchill’s Most Famous post-war speeches, which he entitles Sinews of peace. It was in this speech that Churchill Gave the Phrase, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the adriatic, An Iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” -
Harry S. Truman
In 1947 as the Soviet Union pressured Turkey and, through guerrillas, threatened to take over Greece, he asked Congress to aid the two countries, enunciating the program that bears his name--the Truman Doctrine -
Containment Policy
Containment Policy George F. Kennan created this policy after World War 2 to prevent the spread of communism. It was also used to prevent the threats from the Soviet Union since the U.S. didn't want them to expand their power while the Soviets had control of Eastern Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
Truman DoctrineWas set forth in a speech on March 12, 1947. It stated that the US would support Turkey and Greece with economic as well as military aid in order to help them to keep from falling into the Soviet sphere. Historians often call this the start of the cold war. -
Loyalty Board
Loyalty Board Loyalty boards were to be set up in every department and agency of the federal government. March 22, 1947. Cold War followed WWII. Truman issued an executive order on March 21, 1947, which set up a program to check the loyalty of federal employees. In announcing his order, Truman indicated that he expected all federal workers to demonstrate "complete and unswerving loyalty" the United States. Anything less, he declared, "c -
Taft-Hartley Act
Taft-Hartley act made things like this illegal (picture found here)Taft-Hartley ActAlso known as the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947. This Law Restricted the activities and power of labor unions. The act prohibited Jurisdictional Strikes, Wildcat Strikes, Solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing, closed shops, and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns. -
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Berlin Blockade and AirliftIn March 1948 the Allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of Germany into a single economic unit. In protest, the Soviet representative withdrew from the Allied Control Council. Coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in West Berlin (as throughout West Germany), which the Soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the Allies, the Soviet occupation forces in eastern Germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between Berlin -
The Marshall Plan
The picture seen here is a car on the assembly line possible due to aid to EuropeMillions were killed or wounded, Industrial and Residential centers were destroyed, and even the lacking production in agriculture put Europe on the brink of famine. The Marshall Plan was an American program to aid Europe by way of monetary support to help rebuild European economies. Implemented after World War II, The plan was in operation for four years with it's major goals being to rebuild the war devastated region, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, and make Europe prosperous again. -
Fair Deal
Fair Deal The deal was created by Harry S. Truman. The plan was made by him in 1945 to treat all Americans equally by covering the issues ranging from public housing to health care to civil rights. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 28 countries from North America and Europe. NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. As we approach the celebration of the Alliance's 60th anniversary at the NATO Summit in Strasbourg-Kehl April 2009, NATO remains the principal security instrument of the transatlantic community and expression of its common democratic values -
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mutually Assured Destruction MAD reflects the idea that one's population could best be protected by leaving it vulnerable so long as the other side faced comparable vulnerabilities. “Whoever shoots first, dies second.” Severe, unavoidable reciprocal damage that superpowers are likely to inflict on each other or their allies in a nuclear war, conceived as the heart of a doctrine of nuclear deterrence -
Domino Theory
Domino Theory A communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. IndoChina and Latin America were vulnerable to communism. Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.This was the speech in which Eisenhower addressed the Domino Theory -
Joseph McCarthy
1950, McCarthy made a six hour speech on the Senate floor supporting the allegations he had made in Salt Lake City. This time he did not describe them as "card-carrying communists" because this had been shown to be untrue. -
Korean War
Korean War Korean War began on Sunday, June 25, 1950 and ended on Monday, July 27, 1953. The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement. -
McCarren International Security Act
Picture of Pat McCarren found hereBecame a law on September 22, 1950. This act required Communist Organizations to Register with the US Attorney General and established the Subversive Activities Control Board. The Subversive Activities Control Board investigated persons suspected of engaging in subversive activities or otherwise participating in the promotion of the establishment of totalitarian dictatorship, fascist or communist. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Wins Election
Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He had previously been a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. -
Nikita Khrushchev
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Army- McCarthy Hearings
Army- McCarthy Hearings First nationally televised congressional inquiry and a landmark in the emergent nexus between television and American politics. The Army-McCarthy hearings served as the final chapter in the infamous public career of United States Senator Joseph McCarthy. During the period of intense U.S.-Soviet rivalry known as the Cold War, McCarthy gained fame by accusing U.S. government employees of being communists or -
The Warsaw Pact
The Map that shows the differentiation under the pactThe Warsaw Pact was a Mutual defense Treaty between Eight Communist states of Central and eastern Europe in existence during the cold war. The members involved were Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet union, and Albania. -
Sputnik
Sputnik History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball, weighed only 183.9 pounds, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
Military-Industrial Complex
Military-Industrial Complex The Military Industrial Complex was a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces. President Dwight D. Eisenhower used his farewell speech to the nation to warn the country against the rise of what he called the military-industrial complex -
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First ever space walk
This may 25, 1965 memorandom from Edard c. Welsh, executive secretary of the natianol aeronautics and space council, informed president lyndon b johnson that the 4 space flight scheduled to launch on june 3, 1965, would include an experimental space walk by astronaught Major Edward white. gemini 4 was NASA's first extra vhicular activity.
