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Cold War
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was where the U.S tried to rebuild a war- devastated region and make Europe prosperous again. It was also to prevent the spread of Soviet communism. -
Berlin airlift
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NATO
The U.S and 11 other western nations to form the north atlantio treaty organization. -
Vietnam war
South Vietnam was an allie of the U.S and North Vietnam was an allie of USSR. The U.S feared that if North Vietnam won the war other countries in South Asia would fall to communism -
The U-2 incident
U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its intact remains and surviving pilot. -
Cuban Crises (Missile)
It was when we almost had a nuclear war with the soviet union. But because of President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted. -
Citiens march equal rights in a restaurant
She marched for the rights in food acomadations -
China explodes its first atomic bomb.
China exploaded their first bomb -
Tulsa Oklahoma Married Edmond r smith
My auntie got married -
Hungary declares a non-Communist government
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Tuskegee university
My aunt Hariette graduated to become a profesor -
First trip to las vegas
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Cold War ends.
Supporters of Communism stage an unsuccessful coup. Soviet Union is then abolished and Boris Yeltsin becomes President of Russia.