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Ending of WWII
Japan's surrender ended the 6 year war -
United Nations
Intergovernmental organization -
Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Presented a post-war speech called "The Sinews of Peace" -
Truman Doctrine
Was established to tell that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations -
Marshall Plan
It was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion -
Berlin Airlift
During post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
U.S.S.R.'s Atomic Bomb First Test
At a remote test site at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb, code name “First Lightning.” -
MAD Plan
Mutually Assured Destruction Plan = used high destructive weapons -
China's Civil War
Was a civil war in China fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang led government of the Republic of China, and forces loyal to the Communist Party of China -
Korean War
Was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North -
H-Bomb
Nuclear fusion and hydrogen explosion -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th President -
Stalin's Death
Died of a massive heart-attack -
End of the Korean War
All countries involved agreed to an armistice -
SEATO
SouthEast Asia Treaty Organization -
Warsaw Pact
Defense treaty among 8 communist states of Central and Eastern Europe -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A country could resist American aid if threatened by armed forces -
Sputnik
First artificial Earth sattelite -
Castro takes over Cuba
Overthrew to become leader -
Francis Gary Powers
American pilot who had his U-2 plane shot down -
Bay of Pigs
Invasion of south Cuba -
Berlin Wall
A barrier that divided Berlin from the Germany Democrat Republic -
Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S. because of deployed missiles in Cuba -
Vietnam War
Fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam -
JFK Assassination
He was killed in Dallas, TX -
Lyndon Johnson
36th president -
John F. Kennedy
35th president -
Richard Nixon
37th president -
NASA's first moon landing
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon for the first time in American history -
SALT
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks -
Gerald Ford
38th president -
Jimmy Carter
39th president -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Sent thousands of troops to overtake the country -
U.S. Boycott of the Summer Olympics
Actions to protest the Soviet Union invasion -
Miracle on Ice
American pop culture name for hockey's league in the olympics -
Ronald Reagen
40th president -
STAR WARS
Use a ground-based and space-based system to prevent nuclear attacks -
Gorbachev Came to Power
General power of the communist party of the Soviet Union -
George Bush Sr.
41st president -
Soviets Leave Afghanistan
Leader Colonel Boris Gromov retreated troops -
Tiananmen Square
Pro-democracy movement and portest symbol -
Berlin Wall Falls
Took almost 3 decades for the wall to be "torn down" -
Boris Yeltsin
First president of the Russian Federation -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Divided into 15 different countries
