Cold War

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/05/1933	Roosevlet wants to diplomatic relatons with USSR (late 1933)	Roosevelt wanted to combine the socialist and capatalist aspects of oth nations to try and defeat Hitler(
08/23/1939	Hiter and Stalin sign Nonagression pact.	Russia and Germany sign a non agression pact. Americans become angry with the USSR. People begin to associate Communism with fascism.
11/30/1939	Soviet Russia attacks Finland	The attack on Finland by Russia outrages Americans. The reason Russia attacked Finland because they refused the Soviet's demand for more territory and military bases.
06/05/1941	Hitler invades Russia	Hitler invades Russia despit ethe nonagression pact, to gain more land.
08/14/1941	Atlantic Charter	Agreements made by FDR and Winston Churchill about some principles that the world was to abide by.
12/11/1941	Hitler declares war on the US	Roughly only a few days after Pearl Harbor, Hitler declares war on the United States.
01/10/1944	GI bill passed	The GI bill which gave more oppportunites to soliders back from the war are given more benefits.
02/04/1945	Yatla Conference Begins	The Conference between Soviet Russia, America and Britian begins.
04/12/1945	Truman becomes President	Truman becomes president after Roosevelt dies.
04/12/1945	Roosevelt passes away	Roosevelt passes away ending his presidency
01/10/1946	Soviet Union struggles agriculturally	Grain harvest sinks to 39.6 million tons when it was 95.5 originally.
02/10/1946	George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram"	George Kennan's analysis of foreign policy.
09/06/1946	Speech by Secretary of State James Byrnes on Germany.	The speech by James Byrnes on Germany.
09/12/1946	Henry Wallace's speech in NYC.	Henry Wallace's speech expresses his communist symphathizer vies.
12/06/1946	George Kennan writes analysis later to enter in Foreign Affairs	This article published in 1946 talks about the polcy of containent. This policy was to contain Soviet pressure against other free parts of the world. It was mainly to slow down soviet threats
01/12/1947	Americans for Democratic Action created.	Development that made sure that Commmunists or communist sympathiers were given the properr treatment.
02/24/1947	Greece and Turkey	In 1947, the issue of providing aid to greece and turkey arose when the British government delivered the news that they could no longer financially support these two nations.
03/12/1947	Truman Doctrine speech	The truman doctrine speech was the first time that Truman really said anything against Russia. This is a very big turning point.
03/22/1947	Executive Order No. 9835	This executive order created loyalty boards within federal gency to make sure that no employee was a threat to security.
06/01/1947	Marshall plan	George C. Marshall annouces Marshall plan.
06/23/1947	Taft- Hartley Act enacted	Act created to reduce the power of labor unions.
01/05/1948	Truman introduces Fair Deal	The proposal made to Congres to extend the New Deal. It increased the minimum wage, social security was extended to more people, and more housing projects.
01/11/1948	ELECTION of 1948*	Very important event during 1948. Political candidates: Truman-Democrat Southern Democrats (Dixiecrats led by J. Strom Thurmond) Republicans- NY governor Thomas E Dewey. Republicans thought that they had the better chance at winning. But Truman made a suprising win after his outstanding campagin
02/10/1948	Berlin airlift	Berlin's acess to supplies are cut off. Truman agrees that support to Berlin is necessary. Thus, and airlift is performed to deliver supplies.
03/10/1948	European Revovery Act (Marshall Plan) approved.	The Marshall plan is approved by Congress.
04/04/1949	Nato Created	Nato is formed.
06/10/1950	Korean War begins	The Korean War begins making the "Cold War Hot"
04/01/1954	Army-McCarthy hearings	Between April and June of 1954, Sen McCarthy, an extreme advocate for anticommunism in the US, went after the army and was tried for doing so. The famous quote from these hearings: "Have you left no sense of decency?" from the army's lawyer
10/04/1957	Sputnik launched	Russia launches a satallite and causes concern among Americans fearing that they weren't up to date with technology
05/01/1960	U-2 plane shot down	Soviet Russia shoots down the US U-2 spy plane.
10/15/1962	Cuban missile crisis	Cuban missile crisis begins.
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01/05/1933 to 01/05/1962	Cold War timeline	This timeline includes important events of the Cold War in relevance to my paper