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The Iron Curtain Speech
The Iron Curtain Speech was delivered by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The basic premise of his speech was his explanation of the division of Eastern and Western Europe. The iron curtain is a symbol of the divided European countries. It is the iron curtain metaphor that symbolized the separation of countries during the cold war. -
The Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a form of American foreign policy for countries that resisted communism. The Truman Doctrine agreed to help the countries by providing them aid economically and militarily. The countries that the United States agreed to help included Greece and Turkey. -
The Molotov Plan
The Molotov plan was a system that was organized by the Soviet Union. This system help rebuild Europe politically and economically the way the soviets were built. -
NATO
NATO (North Atlantic Trade Organization) was an alliance formed between the North American countries. In total 28 countries complete the Organization. In 1949, the prospect of further communist expansion prompted the U.S. -
The Marshall Plan
The American program that was created to aid Europe. It stated that the United States would give economic support to help rebuild European economies with direct financial aid. In a result of that food, staples, fuel, and machinery from the U.S. and later resulted in investment in industrial capacity in Europe. -
The Berlin Airlift
When World War II ended in 1945, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. U.S. begins Berlin Airlift. On this day in 1948, U.S. and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to Berlin after the city is taken over by a Soviet Union blockade.U.S. begins Berlin Airlift. -
The Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union created The Berlin Blockade in order to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. After time, the western powers organized an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin. -
Korean War
A civil War, with North Korea and South Korea. North Korea wants to be communists. On the other hand, South Korea is protected by the U.S. military soldiers and providing aid. -
Rosenburg Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were arrested due to the connection with a plot to pass U.S. bombs secrets to the soviets. They were convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair. -
China and Soviet Nuclear test
The Soviet Union exploded its first nuclear bomb at its testing range on the Kazakhstan steppe. It came as a great shock to the U.S. because they were not expecting the Soviet Union to have knowledge of a nuclear weapon so soon. -
1st Geneva Conference
He provided a historic break through a political differences, talking about limiting nuclear weapons. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test of 1949
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test. Which also included placing animals in cages near the bomb explosion so that they could see effects of nuclear radiation on humans. The atomic explosion, which at 20 kilotons was roughly equal to “Trinity,” the first U.S. atomic explosion, destroyed those structures and incinerated the animals -
Hollywood Ten
A small group that refused to answer questions, due to the protection under the first amendment. They were convicted of competent and sent to prison. -
Alger Hiss Case
Ex communists chambers accused of former state employee of spying for the soviet union. -
Army McCarthy hearings
Hearings held by the U.S. Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations. They were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad faith and in retaliation for his recent aggressive investigations of suspected Communists and security risks in the Army. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. It was, from the French view before the event, a set piece battle to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. Culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva. -
Geneva Conference
A conference which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, its purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.The Soviet Union, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the People’s Republic of China were participants throughout the conference while other countries concerned were represented during the discussion of questions of interest to them. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. This give the soviets power which creates threats to national security. Cold War. -
The Invasion of Hungary
A nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. Though leaderless when it first began, it was the first major threat to Soviet control since the USSR's forces drove out Nazi Germany from its territory at the end of World War II and broke into Central and Eastern Europe. -
U2 Incident
The U-2 Incident. Shot down by a Soviet surface to air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960, CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers had been on a top secret mission: to over fly and photograph denied territory from his U2 spy plane deep inside Russia. -
The Bay of Pigs
An invasion of Cuba, the C.I.A armed and trained abandoned Cuban exiles for the corporation. -
The Berlin Wall
The Communist gov. of the German Democratic Republic of East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany. On November 9, 1989, the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the East Germany could cross the border. Some crossed freely into West Berlin, while others brought hammers and picks and began to chip away at the wall itself. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall divided West and East Germany, or democracy and communism during the Cold War. The wall was built on August 13th 1961 and fell November 9th, 1989. The Soviet's had control over East Germany while the United States, Great Britain and the French.The reason why the this Berlin Wall was built was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a 13-day political and military standoff, installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. President J.F.K notified Americans about missiles, and explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba.The world was on the brink of nuclear war. Soon the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader offered to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
Assassination of Diem
Following the overthrow of his government by South Vietnamese military forces the day before, President Ngo Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers. The death of Diem caused celebration among many people in South Vietnam.The United States subsequently became more heavily involved in Vietnam as it tried to stabilize the South Vietnamese government and beat back the communist rebels that were becoming an increasingly powerful threat. -
Assassination of JFK
J.F.K accompanied his wife, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, for a 10-mile motorcade through the streets of downtown Dallas. Sitting in a Lincoln convertible, the Kennedys and Connallys waved at the large crowds. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m., Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor. Seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. -
Token Gulf Resolution
President Johnson was asked to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.The Token Gulf Resolution was called "The blank check" to wage war in Vietnam with out authorization, was passed by congress. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Bombs dropped on North Vietnam by president Johnson. Eight hundred thousand were dropped, this event lasted for 3 and a half years. -
What occurred in the year 1968?
On January 1, 1968, the enemy launched a coordinated assault against virtually every military and political center in South Vietnam. was soon called "the TET offensive. -
The TET offensive
On January 30th, 1968 the enemy lunched by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. -
Assassination of MLK
After 6 p.m. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. Shock over the news of King’s death sparked rioting in more than 100 cities around the country amid a wave of national mourning, President L.B.J. urged Americans to “reject the blind violence” that had killed King, he called the “apostle of nonviolence.” -
Assassination of RFK
This took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in L.A., during the campaign. After winning the C.A and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the U.S.,Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital 26 hours later. Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant, was convicted of Kennedy's murder and is serving a life sentence for the crime. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
It was a united invasion of Czechoslovakia by four Warsaw Pact nations – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. Roughly about 250,000 Warsaw pact troops attacked Czechoslovakia that night, with Romania and Albania refused to join. Although East German forces were ready to join in the invasion, they were ordered from Moscow not to cross the Czechoslovak border just hours before the invasion.108 Czechoslovakian civilians were killed and around 500 wounded in the invasion. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam. On the streets of Chicago, several thousand anti-war protesters gathered to show their support for McCarthy and the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley deployed 12,000 police officers and called in another 15,000 state and federal officers to contain the protesters. -
Nixon's Election
Tumultuous election; it was marked by the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr,subsequent race riots across the nation, the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and widespread opposition to the Vietnam War across university campuses. Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had won a landslide victory for the Democratic Party four years earlier, declined to seek election amid growing discontent over the Vietnam War. -
Kent Shooting
Kent State University demonstrators faced off Ohio National Guards, four students died, ten days later the same event occurs in Mississippi. -
Nixon visits China
China's visit , was a move calculated to drive an even deeper wedge between the two most significant communist powers. The .US. might be able to make use of the Chinese as a counterweight to North Vietnam. Despite their claims of socialist solidarity, the PRC and North Vietnam were, strongly suspicious allies.Nixon concluded that he had better use China to contain Vietnam.” -
Cease Fire in Vietnam
When the cease-fire went into effect, Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s territory and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped via last-minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to receive U.S. aid after the cease-fire. -
Fall of Saigon
The capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of Việt Cộng. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic. North Vietnamese forces, under the command of General Văn Dũng, began their final attack on Saigon, with Army of the Republic of Vietnam forces commanded by General Nguyễn Toàn suffering heavy artillery bombardment. -
Election of Ronald Reagan
This event was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1980. Between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan, as well as Republican Congressman John B. Anderson, who ran as an independent. Reagan, aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, won the election by a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate. -
'Tear Down This Wall' speech
Reagan gave a speech to seek common ground on human rights , asked general Grobachev to open and tear down the Berlin wall. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
More than 2 million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin that weekend to participate in a celebration that was, one journalist wrote, “the greatest street party in the history of the world.” People used hammers and picks to knock away chunks of the wall–they became known as “wall woodpeckers”. Soon the wall was gone and Berlin was united for the first time since 1945. “Only today,” one Berliner spray-painted on a piece of the wall, “is the war really over.” -
Announcement of SDI ('Star Wars')
Nixon proposed SDI, the concept read like sci-fiction, satellites patrolling the heavens zapping incoming soviet missals with laser.
