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The idea behind the US sending around 400 "advisors" or Green berets to south vietnam was to train the southern vietnam soldiers in the fight against the viet cong guerillas. that same day the President begins the clandestine warfare against North Korea. The President at the time orders the soldiers to disruprt bases and supply lines of the soviets, this was important to the Cold War. -
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CONTINUED YALTA CONFERENCE
This event took place in Crimea during world war two with FDR Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stallin. The progress of the war (ww2) and a postwar world were disscused in this conference. This is important because in marked the begining of the relations after the war and lead way to the tensions of the Cold War. -
U.S uses first A-bomb in war, japan surrenders, end of ww11
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The United States uses their first nuclear bomb in HIroshima as their only source to set the Japanese Surrender and save Americans lives. This was the first nuclear weapon used and after the U.S second launch in Nagasaki, the Japanese finally surrender. This bomb would later cause tensions between the Soviets and U.S as Truman refused to tell Stalin about the bomb at the Yalta Conference. -
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CONTINUED WISTON CHURCHILL
As Prime Minister Churchill condemned the soviet Union policies that created an Iron Curtain, this Iron Curtain extended from the Baltic sea to the Atlantic setting of a division in Germany to describe the post war between self-governing nations in the West and those in Eastern Europe which had recently come to Soviet Russia. In this speech, Churchill begins by acknowledging America's newfound power in the world, and then explains the threat of Communism from Russia -
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This doctrine stated that the US would provide political, military, and ecomonic assistance to all democratic nations under a threat from athoritarian forces. This arose from a speech that Truman gave to congress before a joint session. What this did for the Cold War was establish relationships and solidify who is a democratic nation in the fight against communism. -
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CONTINUED COMMUNISTTAKEOVER
under pressure from the communist party the leader of Czechoslovakia allowed for the organization of a communist government. this was seen as communist expansion into eastern europe. this was seen as pressure of the communists going into eastern europe who was againt the soviets. -
Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Joseph Stalin set a Blockade around berlin to stop the United States from taking control. The blockade of Berlin was the first serious crisis of the Cold War. At the end the blockade became ineffective , and ended up in backfiring on the Soviets as the the U.S and allies dropped supplies establishing an airlift -
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CONTINUED NATO
is an intergovernmental military alliance of 28 north american and european countries. this is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), this is a mutual defense response between nations. this is important to the Cold War because in response to this organization the soviets from the warsaw pact. this solidifes the tensions between the groups. -
CONTINUED BERLIN AIRLIFT
It provoked fears of war in the West, and instead of preventing the establishment of an independent West Germany it created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.In May 1949, Stalin had little choice but to lift the block -
Soviets develop & test their first Abomb
IMAGEThe United States came with great shock when they realized that the Soviet Union decided to build their first atomic weapon. However, the U.S did not expect a rapid procedure and knowledge by the Soviets which created a panic between the two nations. In order to test the effects of the explosion and radiation, the Soviets built buildings,bridges and placed animals near the area. Later that year, a U.S spy plane would detect the first signals of radiation which would lead into a deeper conflict -
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CONTINUED COMMUNISTS CHINA
was the height of the party that was founded in 1921. As a result this ended the civil war going on at the time in China. the fall to soviets ties in china led the US to suspend all dimplmatic ties with the country. during ww2 the support for communisms increased dramatically. -
Wisconsin Sen. McCarthy begins Communist witch hunt
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McCarthy enthusiastically agreed to take on the role against communism that would be known as McCarthyism. He claimed to have a list of 205 people in the State Department who were known members of the American Communist Party. 2 years later he continued to investigate and question numerous of government departments creating a panic arising from the witch-hunts and fear of communism. -
Korean War Fought
IMAGEPRIMARY SOURCE Communist North Korea sent their troops to south korea setting the Korean War into place, one of the first hot wars in the cold war. The United States in action to defend South Korea set the fighting of a bloody war for 3 years, then a turning point would be established by the Communist Chinese intervention. -
KOREAN WAR CONTINUED
This war was a limited war that did not result in the defeat of North Korea ,but a protection of South Korea frustrating the American people, who were used to the victory in World War II. The public found the concept of limited war difficult to understand or support. In 1953 the United States and North Korea signed a cease-fire that ended the conflict that resulted in the continued division of North and South Korea. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg tried and executed for espionage
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The Rosenbergs were the first Americans civilians who got executed for espionage in a electric chair.This execution marked a dramatic finale of the most controversial espionage case of the Cold War. -
CONTINUED JULIUS AND ETHEL
The couple was accused of passing top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. As the couple awaited for their execution, they became a national and international debate claiming that they were victims of an American scare towards communism, but President Eisenhower spoke for many Americans declaring that its better to keep the lives of millions safe who would've been affected by these spies. -
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CONTINUED WARSAW
"The treaty of friendship" was a collective defense treaty among eight communists nations. this was formed in respone the europes NATO formation. this is siginifcant to the Cold War because it is solidfying the two cold of this tensioned era. The democratics and the communists. -
Hungarian rebellion put down by Soviets
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The protest to end Soviet oppression and political instability, which were fired up by Imre Nagy who push the Hungarian revolts by abolishing one party rule in Hungary made Soviet tanks and troops aggressively crush down protests where thousands of hungarians were killed and wounded. -
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This event caused the Soviets to demonstrate their greater power by shutting down the rebels and killing Nagay, which would later shock the west. A radio broadcast speech Voice of America by President Dwight D. Eisenhower suggested the United States supported the “liberation” of “captive peoples” in communist nations; upsetting the Hungarians that the U.S did not defend them. -
U.S Marshall Plan
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The plan helped a rapid renewal of the western European chemical, engineering, and steel industries. Then Truman extended the Marshall Plan to help less-developed countries in world through Point Four Program in 1949. -
Sputnik Launched start of space war
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The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. This event was a key Cold War event that began when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 ,the first artificial Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two American launch angered the American public. Sputnik was harmless, but its orbiting in space scared the people of the US. -
Khrushchev demands NATO withdraw troops from Berlin
Khrushchev, a Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, fought to figure out a lasting compromise that would benefit a divided Germany and the problems concerning West Berlin. He wanted the Eastern powers to have access to the west by creating a peace treaty with France, United Kingdom, and United States. This caused the Western Allies to be uneasy, since they didn't want to go to war over this issue but, when the West would not cooperate he made the decision to start the Berlin Wal -
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Cuba taken over by Fidel Castro
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After the overthrow of the previous brutal dictator, Fulgencio Batista, the Cubans had hope that they would be free from a bane government intervention and oppression. This feeling would later died quickly as Fidel Castro introduced new massive land reforms, that would make the United States cut all diplomatic relations with Cuba. This event would later result in Castro seeking for help to the Soviets, declaring a Communist Island. -
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CONTINUED PIGS INVASION
A young Cuban nationalist by the name of Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana in cuba and overthrew the leader of the time. This was important to the cold war because this was a new leadership that was only 100 miles off the coast of america. So naturally this worried americans with communisms so close to our shores. -
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plane deep inside Russia which was later shot down by a Soviet air missile on the morning of May 1, 1960. This incident broke down a meeting between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany. The story of the U2 incident and aftermath reveals a great impact in the cold war. -
U-2 incident: American spy plane shot down over USSR
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John F Kennedy Elected
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President John F. Kennedy, the first young president to be elected who is also a Catholic, ran against Richard Nixon. This election was the first to have the candidates engaged in a televised debate. Foreign Policy was a debate that fired up both Candidates as Nixon Saw Kennedy as to young and inexperienced to understand the diplomacy of the Cold War. -
CONTINUED JFK ELECTED
Kennedy seem to experience difficulties as he won the election, first with the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, then by a blustering Nikita Khrushchev during a summit meeting in Europe, and finally by the construction of the Berlin Wall. -
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CONTINUED BERLIN WALL
The Communist gorvernment of the GDR set up[ a wall dividing the East and West sides of Berlin. The purpose of this wall was to keep the Fasciasts from entering East Germny. This wall remainds one of the most enduring and significant symbols of the Cold War. -
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CONTINUED CUBAN MISSLE
The Cuban Missle Crisis was a tense 13 day period between the US and the Soviet union in 1962 over the Soviet Nuclear Missiles being held in Cuba. In this time the US was ready to use naval force to neatralize the threat on the US people. These 13 days are significant to the cold war because this was the closest that the Cold War got to being a bloody battle. -
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CONTINUED JFK ASSANINATION
76% of americans in 1998 believed the president was killed due to conspiracy, he was killed in Dallas during a presidential motorcade. He was killed by Lee Harry Oswald. who was working alone.It is claimed that the Soviets were not involved in this event.
