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Meet in postdam germany and discuss postwar Europe
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The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and on August Japan surrenders and becomes are allies
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George F. Kennan send a telegram to Washington for the policy of containment. On March 5 Winston Churchill warn about the Iron Curtain being drawn across Europe in one of his speeches.
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President Harry Truman signs National security act. Created National security council October 18. December 19 congress voetes 540 million dollars to aid France, Italy, Austria, and Chine also Truman spends 17 billion economic recovery for europe.
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Soviet Union went and put communist regime in Czechoslocakia, this was a war scare for the United States. United states and Wester Europe were allies and they had plans to form West Germanys government. On April 2 Congress approved the Marshal Pland. June 24 Soviets began to blockade berlin. August 3 Former communist Whittaker Chambers names Alger Hiss as being a former communist in front of un American actvities commitee. On November 2 Harry Truman wins he secound election against Thomas Dewey
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April 4th Nato is formed and signed by the United States and 12 other nations. Nato mean North Atlantic Treaty Organization. May 12th Soviet blockade of berlin ends. September 23- Soviets have made and used an atomic bomb. October 1 communist regime in China is established
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Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
Februrary 9th West virgina senator Joseph R McCarthy claimes that he knows 205 communists in the United State stat department. June 25 North Korea Invades South Korea. June 30 Harry Truman puts US armed forces in Korea. October 26 Chinese enter Korean war and fight. -
Truman gets rid of General Douglas Macarthur of his command in Korea. Truman replaces him with General Matthen B. Ridgeway.
July 7th- Ridgeway begins negotiations with China and North Koera. -
United States bans and travel to Russia and any communication to there satellites.
November 1 United States tests first hydrogen bomb -
March 5- Stalin dies (Dictator of Russia/Soviet Union)
June 17- Riots in East Germany because of increaed work loads and Soviet tanks move in
July 27- United States and North Korea sign document ending the Korean war
August 12- Soviets get thier first hydrogen bomb
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April 26- Geneva conference on Korea and China begins
May 7- French surrender to Vietnam
September 8- Southeast Asian Treaty Organization is formed with the United States being a member -
May- 9th West Germany Joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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October 29- War breaks out middle east between Egypt, British, French, in the Isrial coaliton
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August- Soviets fire first ballistic millse
October 4- Soviets launch sputnik, the first satellite (Space Race Begins) -
October 7th- United States plans project mercury, project main point is to get the first man into outer space.
December 14th- United States, Britian, France reject Sovet demands, because of there withdraw from West Berlin -
September 15th- Soviet dictator Khrushchev comes the the Untied States for a good will visit.
October 12- United States boycotts exports from Cuba -
May 1- U-2 spy plane shot down in Soveit Russia, Francis Gary Powers was flying the plane.
November 8- John F. Kennedy wins the Presidental election against Nixon -
Janurary 20- Kennedy is know the 35 president of the United states of America.
April 12- Soviet man Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit around the earth
April 17- Bay of Pigs begins- Will TALK MORE ABOUT IN PREZI
August 13- East Germans begins to rebuild berlin wall
October 27- Untied States and Soviet tanks meet eachother at East and West Berlin -
July 23- 14 nations sign Geneva contract
October 14- United States sees photos of missles being set up along the Cuban shore. AKA- Cuban Missile Crises- will talk more about in PREZI -
July 15- United States and Soviet Russia and Great Britian being diarmament talks in Moscow
November 1- South Vietnam murders thier leader Ngo Ding Diem- Will talk more about Vietnam in PREZI
November 22- John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas Texas and LBJ takes office -
November 3- Lyndon wins presidental election against Barry M. Goldwater
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March 8-9- First American combat troops arive at Da Nang South Vietnam
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June 29- LBJ bombs oil installations in Haiphong and Hanoi, North Vietnam
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October 21- 55,000 people protests about us being in Vietnam
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March 31- LBJ haults to bombing in North Vietnam, LBJ will did not wanted to be re elected.
April 4- Martin Luther King was assinated in Memphis Tennessee
May 12- United States and North Vietnam have peace talks in Paris
August 21- Soviet tanks enter Czechoslovakia
November 5- Nixion wins the presidental election against Hubert H. Humphrey -
March 14- Nixon proceeds with antiballistic missle defence plan
June 8- Nixon withdraws 25,000 troops from Vietnam
November 17- SALT between United States and Soviet Union in Helsinki, Finland -
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August 2- United States ends 20 years of ignoring China and we are going to hace future support from China with trading and all sorts of stuff.
October 20- Henry Kissinger come's to beijing to arange the presidents 4th trip to China -
May 26- Nixon and Soviet general sign document stateing the limitation of nuclear weapon testing
July 8- Nixon announces a sale of over 750 million worth of wheat and other grains to the Soviet Union
October 8- United States and Soviet Union sign a 3 year trade agreement
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June 27-July-3- Nixon and Brezhnev have meetings in Moscow, Russia
August 9- Nixon resings as president before he was impeached
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July 30- Leaders of 35 nations meet in Helsinki, Finland for the largest conference ever held in Europe
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June 18- Carter and Brezhnev sign the strategic arms limitation aka SALT treaty, in Vienna Austria
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October 23- 230 United States marines are killed when a truck full of explosives crashed into thier barracks in Beirut, Lebanon
October 25- Reagan tells United States forces have invaded the Caribean Ilands nation of Grenada
November 230 American cruise missiles deployed for 1st time in Western Germany and United KIngdom -
November 6th- Reagan beats Walter Mondale in presidental election
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November 18-21 Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time in the summit in Geneva
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March 26- Free elections in the history of the Soviet Union are held
May 2- Hungary begins taking down 150 mile long fence along the Austian border, Thus opening a west to the people of the communist block
November 9- Berlin wall torn down by Easst and West Germans -
November 18-21- The conference on the security and cooperation in Europe puts a formal to end the Cold War
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July 1- Warsaw pact disbands
August 19 Unsuccessful coup launched by hard liners in Soivet Union
against Gorbachev
December 25- Soivet Union disbands Gorbachev turns power to Boris Yeltsin