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Containment
Truman is president and feel the best way to handle the communist is to contain them. In other words keep them where they are, and don't let them grow. -
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Cold War
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Truman Doctrine
A document with Truman's ideas on communist Russia and what the United States should do to handle them. -
Marshall Plan
This is the plan to help bring Europe back fter WWII. -
OAS
OAS was formed to keep cooperation between nations. -
Israel vs. Irab
The U.S. supported Israel when Arab started attacking them. Picture: http://www.warchat.org/history/history-middle-east/arab-israel-war-1948-1949.html -
Berlin Air Lift
After Russia blockaids all of Germany, the United States take care of their new territory. They send food, water, and supplies to help the Germans. -
NATO North Atlantic Pact
Entrust NATO with the Atlantic ocean -
H-Bombs
Truman reveals the fact the US has Hydrogen Bombs. -
Oil-rich Arab
U.S. didn't want Arab to follow in Soviets foot steps. Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi -
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President
EIsenhower was elected president in 1953. Picture: http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/eikenberryike.html -
Denies Clemency
Eisenhower denies clemency from Julius and Rosenburg who delivered the atomic bomb. Picture: http://www.123rf.com/photo_5083739_used-rejected-red-stamp-isolated-on-white-background.html -
Stalin's death
Stalin dies in March of 1953. Picture: http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai141_folder/141_articles/141_stalins_death.html -
Campaign Promise
The death of Stalin and the rise of more Soviet leaders helped Eisenhower keep his Campaign promise. Picture: http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2009/10/bloombergs-original-campaign-promises.html -
Bomb test
The U.S. did 19 hrdrogen bomb tests. One bomb went the whole way to Japan sea's giving some men radiation burns. Picture: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Fusion/Fusion4.shtml -
Egypt in need of Support
Egypt looked to Soviets for help instead of the U.S. Picture: http://www.travelvidz.com/page/100 -
Sputnik
Soviets launched first satellite to orbit Earth. Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1 -
Eisenhower Doctrine
To keep Soviets from influencing other countries. Picture: http://www.kirkwood.k12.mo.us/parent_student/khs/plattes/topics21-23/topics21-23.html -
NASA
NASA created due to help calm people from Soviet's Sputnik idea. Picture: http://scienceray.com/technology/1950s-research-nasa-and-sputnik/ -
U-2
Guided missile shot down American U-2 spy plane. Picture: http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=51 -
JFK Inaugurated
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Bay of Pigs
U.S. Invades Cuba to try to over throw Castro's regime. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall is built to stop the large amount Germans moving west. -
Cuban missle Crisis
U.S. spy planes see the contruction of nuclear missiles in Cuba so the U.S. prohibits the Soviets from bringing in military supplies then the Soviets dissmantle the missles and the U.S. pledges not to invade Cuba and removes nuclear missles from Turkey. -
JFK is Assassination
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Increased Troops
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered more troops into Vietnam. It went from 75,000 to 125,000 troops. -
Tet Offense
Series of attacks by the Vietcong. -
Bombing halt in North Vietnam
Johnson stopped the bombing -
Non-proliferation Treaty
Joins Great Britain and the USSR to reduce the disribution and production of nuclear weapons -
SALT 1
Limits Australia, Iran USSR and Poland strategic arms -
Nixon Impeached
The Watergate conspiracy -
Apollo-soyuz joint space mission
the USA and the USSR had a joint mission to space showing that tensions between the two countries were starting to ease up -
SALT II
the strategic arms limitation talks began between Jimmy Carter and the leader of the soviet union at that time -
SALT II ENDS
the strategic arms limitaion talks between the sovet union and the united states ended. -
The Carter doctrine
Jimmy carter announced that the united states would use military force to protect thier interests in the middle eastern region which was a response to the invasion of a middle eastern country by the Soviet Union.
