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Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was a former state departmen offical
Alger Hiss was accused of Passing goverment Issuses to the Soviet Union
Hisses accuser wittake chambers claimed that he gave top secreat papers to thesoviet union -
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Cold War Timeline
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Iron Curtain speech
The term iron curtain is away of reffering to a barrier of understanding information
Churchills use of the word became popular descring the cold war between the U.S and the Soviet Union
Stalin hoped to make the soviet union most powerful -
Truman Doctrine
President Truman made a urgent request to congress to aid greece and turkey
Trumans policy of blocking comunist exspanisons was containment
After WWII much of Europe lay in ruins -
Marshall Plan
Secretaryof state of geroge Marshallproposed it
It helped countries such as france recover
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Vietnam War
Eisenhower (1953-1961) sent weapons and advisers to train vietnam troops
Kennedy (1961-19630 sent more troops and advisers
Johnson(1963-1969)sent many U.S troops to fight and orderd bombings
Nixon(1969-1974) began vietiamzation of the war forced north Vietinam to sighnpeace treaty also brought the U.S troopd home -
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and ethel rosenburg were american comunists
both sentenced to death
julius was a electrical engineer
ethel was an actress and siger
both recurted people to comunisum -
WarSaw Pact
This pact was formed by the Soviet Union the satelite nations of eastern Europe
The warsaw pact was in respone to NATO -
U-2 Spy Plane
Americans werewere spying on the Soviet Union to see where they kept their missles
Soviet Union shot down the plane
The pilot was put in a Russian jail
The pilot was taking pictures of where the missles were kept -
Bay of pigs
Americans trained cubans to secretly attak Castro
The attak fialed
Comunist leader became even more popular after the secret failed attak my America -
first man on the moon
Neil Armstong was the first man on the moon
it cost 24 billion dollars to send the men to the moon
one famous quote that was used by armstong was this is a small step for man but a giant leap for man kind
another famous quote is the eagle has landed reffring to the space shuttle -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union Lauched sputnik into space
Sputnik was the first artifical made satellite sent into space
The U.S was then alamred the Soviet Union could now launch a nuceular missle -
Collapse of Soviet Union
Soviet Union collapsed at the end of the cold war
Mikhail Gorbachev was the leadert of the soviet Union
Ronald Regan was the U.S president
