APUSH Foreign Side

By rrabenstine

  • Yalta Conference

  • Death of FDR

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    Harry S. Truman's presidency

  • Postdam

  • The United Nations is formed

  • Winston Churchill's Iorn Curtain Speech

  • Britain asks the United States to take over its role in supporting Greece

  • Truman Doctrine Announced

  • Marshall Plan is announced

  • Rio Pact signed in 1947

  • Israel is established

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    Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift

  • NATO is formed

  • Soviets explode atomic bomb

  • Mao declares the creation of the People's Republic of China

  • North Korea crosses the 38th Parallel

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    Korean War Period

  • Rosenbergs are convicted of espionage

  • MacArthur is relieved of duties

  • Prime Mnister Mohammed Mosadiq of Iran explains his nationalism policy

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency

  • Joseph Stalin Dies

  • Soviets complete hydrogen bomb

  • Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadiq is overthrown

  • French Defeated by Ho Chi Minh at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

  • CIA takes out Guatamalan President

  • WARSAW PACT is formed

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    Vietnam War

  • Suez Canal Crisis

    Egypt almost starts another war by going to the Soviets for arms. The British and French attacked Egypt.

  • Hungarian Revolution

    Nikita Khruschev, the new leader of Soviet RUssia, ordered the revolution to be stopped through the means of the Soviet Army.

  • Eisenhower Doctrine is unvelied

  • Soviet statelite Sputnik is launched

  • Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista falls from power

  • Russians shoot down U-2 spy plane, embarassing US

  • United States stops diplomatic relations with Cuba

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    John F. Kennedy's presidency

  • Bay of Pigs fiasco

  • Berlin Wall divides Berlin

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

  • US and Soviet Union set up hotline for any future crisis

  • Limited Test Ban Treaty Signed

  • South Vietnamese President Diem dies

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    Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency

  • Gulf of Tonkin "incident"

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed; Johnson controls war w/o Congress

  • Tet Offensive starts

  • Mai Lai Massacre

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    Richard M. Nixon's Presidency

  • US-Soviet Union SALT negotiations begin

  • Pentagon Papers released

  • Nixon visits Mao Zedong in China to negotiate trade

  • Paris Peace accords signed; American forces leave Vietnam; Vietnam Border will be respected.

  • The last American soldiers leave Vietnam

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    Gerald Ford's Presidency

  • All Americans have left Vietnam

  • North Vietnamese capture Saigon, capital of South Vietnam

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    Jimmy Carter's Presidency

  • President Carter gives Panamal Canal to Panama

  • Camp David Accords are signed, giving peace between Israel and Egypt

  • President Carter recognizes the People's Republic of China

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    Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

  • Moscow Summer Olympics- Americans are not allowed to participate

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    Ronald Reagan's Presidency

  • The U.S invades the island of Grenada

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    Iran-Contra Affair (we are sneaky about getting the hostages back and support anti-american countries with arms)

  • US bombs Libyan air bases when we are threatened by Libyan gunboats.