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  • Containment

    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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  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    A document with Truman's ideas on communist Russia and what the United States should do to handle them.
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    This is the plan to help bring Europe back fter WWII.
  • OAS

    OAS

    OAS was formed to keep cooperation between nations.
  • Israel vs. Irab

    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

    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

    NATO North Atlantic Pact

    Entrust NATO with the Atlantic ocean
  • H-Bombs

    H-Bombs

    Truman reveals the fact the US has Hydrogen Bombs.
  • Oil-rich Arab

    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

    Dwight D. Eisenhower elected President

    EIsenhower was elected president in 1953. Picture: http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/eikenberryike.html
  • Denies Clemency

    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's death

  • Campaign Promise

    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

    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 in need of Support

    Egypt looked to Soviets for help instead of the U.S. Picture: http://www.travelvidz.com/page/100
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    Soviets launched first satellite to orbit Earth. Picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    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

    NASA created due to help calm people from Soviet's Sputnik idea. Picture: http://scienceray.com/technology/1950s-research-nasa-and-sputnik/
  • U-2

    U-2

    Guided missile shot down American U-2 spy plane. Picture: http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=51
  • JFK Inaugurated

    JFK Inaugurated

  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    U.S. Invades Cuba to try to over throw Castro's regime.
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    The Berlin wall is built to stop the large amount Germans moving west.
  • Cuban missle Crisis

    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

    JFK is Assassination

  • Increased Troops

    Increased Troops

    Lyndon B. Johnson ordered more troops into Vietnam. It went from 75,000 to 125,000 troops.
  • Tet Offense

    Tet Offense

    Series of attacks by the Vietcong.
  • Bombing halt in North Vietnam

    Bombing halt in North Vietnam

    Johnson stopped the bombing
  • Non-proliferation Treaty

    Non-proliferation Treaty

    Joins Great Britain and the USSR to reduce the disribution and production of nuclear weapons
  • SALT 1

    SALT 1

    Limits Australia, Iran USSR and Poland strategic arms
  • Nixon Impeached

    Nixon Impeached

    The Watergate conspiracy
  • Apollo-soyuz joint space mission

    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

    SALT II

    the strategic arms limitation talks began between Jimmy Carter and the leader of the soviet union at that time
  • SALT II ENDS

    SALT II ENDS

    the strategic arms limitaion talks between the sovet union and the united states ended.
  • The Carter doctrine

    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.