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WWII

By henryblanks

  • Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech

    Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
    Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech. which contains the famous phrase “an iron curtain has descended on Europe”. After this speech the divide in Germany was called the iron curtain.

  • Truman doctrine

    Truman doctrine
    Harry Truman announces Truman Doctrine and the provision of aid to Greece.

  • Blockades in Europe

    Blockades in Europe
    The Soviet Union blockades road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West. The soviet union dint want any one coming or leaving from their country. One of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

  • Berlin airlift

    Berlin airlift
    As a result of the blockades in Berlin the USA decided to airlift packages into Berlin. Polios would deliver medical supplies and food. Most of the pilots were WWII veterans.

  • Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.

    Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb.
    In 1950 Harry Truman ordered the making of the first hydrogen bomb. The hydrogen bomb is a bomb similar to a nuclear bomb n=but without the radiation.The first hydrogen bomb test though was in 1952.

  • North Korean forces invade South Korea.

    North Korean forces invade South Korea.
    As tensions grow bigger in Asia and Europe communist countries are trying to convert other countries. In South Korea being democratic and noth Korea being communist there was sure to be tension. eventually north Korea invades

  • Harry Truman orders US troops to Korea.

    Harry Truman orders US troops to Korea.
    Harry Truman orders US troops to Korea to help fight in the war against communism and to help south Korea. Over 54,246 deaths and over 7000 Americans still unaccounted for. The ending result in the war was the separation of the two countries.

  • Joseph Stalin dies.

    Joseph Stalin dies.
    Joseph Stalin dying was about to begin a new area and the almost closing of the cold war. Joseph Stalin died from Cerebral Hemorrhage in the brain. He died at the age of 74.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam. The war took 17.5 years with over 50,000 american deaths. This war was one of the first time american soldiers saw gorilla warfare

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis
    The USA and the Soviet Union had a tense 13 day political and military standoff. Soviet Union had planted nuclear missiles in Cuba a island just off the coast of the USA. The crisis ended and the soviet union took the missiles out of Cuba