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Marshall Plan
Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It was later changed for Secretary of State George Marshall. He proposed to have economic assistance in 1947 to restore Europe's economic infrastructure of post war.
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Berlin Airlift
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Joe McCarthy's Career
In 1950 when it seems suspected that the communists had enter the U.S. government. He just claimed that around 200 communists in the U.S. State Department and soon after claimed to have the names of 57 State Department communists even with out much evidence. McCarthy was then reelected in 1952 and became chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Government Operations, and he had the spotlight for two years with his bad squad.
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Creation of NATO
The treaty was made to provide collective security against the Soviet union ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
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First successful Soviet Nuclear weapon text
Code name RDS-1 They would test bombs at Semipalatisk, now called Kazakhstan. Igor Kurchatov lead the project. The bomb itself is similar to the "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki.
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Korean War
The war is between the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and the Republic of South Korea. Untied states joined in to help South Korea fight North Korea while China work with the North. The war lasted only three years and in the end nothing was gained on both sides.
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First Hydrogen Bomb Detonation
Untied states first ever hydrogen bomb not long later they did a test with the bomb because of the race to have the first working hydrogen bomb. They did it in a hurry believing the Soviet Union would be doing the same thing. They weren't wrong, the following year the Soviets made a bomb. By the late 1970's seven other nations started creating hydrogen bombs.
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The Presidency of Dwight D Eisenhower
In 1961 of january 3 Eisenhower handled diplomatic relations with cuba. In 1960 of January 13 Eisenhower supports the Nixon and makes its public. In 1959 of october a Taft-Hartley injunction in the steelworkers strike was the effect of Eisenhower.
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Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel were a married couple that was trialed for the conspiracy to commit espionage. They were american citizens who spied on behalf of the Soviet Union. They were accused of passing on top secret information on the atomic bomb to the soviet Union.
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The Hungarian Uprising
At 1956, after a speech by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev he decided to attack the period of Joseph Stalin’s rule. Mostly because of the people having a bit more freedom they started to not see things eye to eye so a fight broke out. The rebellion leader Hungary and Nagy was executed for treason in 1958 for not following Stalin's rule.
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The Lunch of Sputnik 1
Was a rocket that was launched by the soviets union at Gagarin’s start at 7:28 PM. It was manufactured by the Energia corporation. The launch caused panik to the United States no one knew what it could do or what it was capable of. It was also a shook to the citizen that United States didn't launch a satellite into space first.
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Nikita Khrushchev as the Premier the Soviet Union
In February 1956 Stalin was criticized by for arresting and deporting opponents to get himself to the top, above the party and for incompetent wartime leadership. Khrushchev sent troops to fight Nazi Germany at two locations. After the war Khrushchev went out and help fix the countryside. https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/nikita-sergeyevich-khrushchev -
Castro takes over Cuba
Castro was the first communist state and he started to lead the people of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. For the cold war it means war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Then even had a close call of starting nuclear war and in history it's remember by the name Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Greensboro Four
The Greensboro Four is a event that was started by four African Americans. They went in a popular retail store that refuse to serve African Americans, because of this more African Americans started a protest called "sit-ins" it became a big protest with others joining.
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U2 Spy Plane Shot Down
It can take high resolution pictures and the highest flying altitude is 70,000. The plane can self-destruct that would make it impossible recognize the wreckage and the pilot have kill them self so the Soviet Union can't get information from them. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-u-2-spy-plane-shot-down -
John F. Kennedy elected to Presidency
The 44th president of United States, he did his best to avoid nuclear war with the Soviet union, and even tried to give rights to the African Americans. He is also famous for the Bay of Pigs invasion. He sadly was killed during a parade by a gunshot wound through the neck and head.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The CIA set up training camps in Guatemala, and by November they trained a small army for an assault landing and guerrilla warfare. The United states financed the invasion. This was a failed attempt to stopping communism in Cuba during the cold war.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
This was a 13 day intense political and military standoff involving Americans and the soviets over the fact that the soviets had place nuclear arm missile in Cuba. They put the missiles there because it was 90 miles away from U.S. In the end they came to an agreement that the soviets would remove the missile but the Americans couldn’t invade Cuba and the Americans promised not to invade. It was a win for the Americans. https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis -
Murder of Medgar Evers
He was the civil right's leader, he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith. During World War 2 he volunteered and participated in the Normandy invasion. Because he joined NACCP he traveled around his state encouraging poor African Americans to register to vote. He also started to recruit them into the civil right's movement.
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First American troops arrive in South Vietnam
In 1965 3,500 Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade arrive in Da Nang to protect the U.S airbase from attacks by Viet Cong. When they landed down the only thing that happened was one of the planes having been damaged by anti-air fire. There arrival is a good point to start, but is not the beginning of the Vietnam war. Advisers only started to die in action in 1959 by the time other allies arrived 400 U.S died.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
It was passed by the U.S Senate but was passed after a month of the U.S house of representatives debating whether to pass it or not. After President Lyndon singed it DR. King signed as well and other civil right leaders. This act banned reading test, provided security in places so non-white people were to register to vote for non-white people voting, and allow the U.S general to investigate the use poll taxes.
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Loving V.Virginia
Was a supreme court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage as violations of equal protection. The people who brought the case to life was Richard and Mildred loving. A white male married to a black woman, it was illegal to the virginia state law.
https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/loving-v-virginia
