History

  • Armistice SIgned  Ending Korean War

    Armistice SIgned Ending Korean War

    The Armistice", is the armistice at the end of World War I, on 11 November 1918, signed near Compiègne, France, and effective at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
  • HUAC formed

    HUAC formed

    The House Committee of Un-American Activites was formed to investigate the House of Representatives
  • Yalta Conference

    Yalta Conference

    Meeting of leaders of the U.S. the U.K. and the Soviet Union to discuss the reorganization of states in War-torn Europe
  • United Nations Formation

    United Nations Formation

    ORganization founded in 1945 to promote peace
  • Potsdam Conference

    Potsdam Conference

    Meeting in Germany of the US UK and USSR to discuss the punishment of the defeated NAZI's
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    Promise by Truman to help nations strugling against communist movements.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    Foreign policy that offered aid to Western European countries after WWII
  • Berlin Airlift

    Berlin Airlift

    Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supples to West Berlin during a Soviet Blockade..
  • NATO formation

    NATO formation

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance formed to Soviet expansion
  • Era of McCarthyism begins

    Era of McCarthyism begins

    Era of Anticommunism.
  • North Korean INvasion of South Korea

    North Korean INvasion of South Korea

    The North Korean Inasion of South Korea caught the United States and South Korea themselves wholly by surprise but tey pulled through and succeeded.
  • Rosenberg Execution

    Rosenberg Execution

    Family that was found guilty of relaying military secrets to the Soviets.
  • Warsaw Pact

    Warsaw Pact

    MIllitary alliance of the Soviet Union and the Satellite States
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Soviets launch a satelite into space.
  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was a Soviet cosmonaut
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepard was the first American in space.
  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Creation of the Berlin Wall

    Built by the German Republic to separate Berlin from East Germany.
  • FIrst man on the moon

    FIrst man on the moon

    Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.