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This is a timeline of the events from 1947-1966 that have relatio to the coldwar.
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Western Europe was in terrible shape. Factories an fields had been destroyed and a terrible winter had increased those hardships. -
Greece and Trukey both needed economic and military aid. This was Trumans first test of containment. -
The Marshall plan is announced and initiated. A prcedent was set to help sountries combat, disease, and poverty. -
Soviets troops took over Czechoslovakia. They forced and invasion to crush the reform movement. -
Agreement signed by Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Creates a collecive defense agreement. Lead to NATO. -
The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies railway, road, and canal access. Stalin wanted Germany to remain weak, this lasted 11 months. -
In may, the blockade finally is lifted/ended. The Soviets lifted the blockade on land and gave access to Western Berlin. -
In August, the Soviets detonated thir first atomic bomb. It was known in the West as Joe-1. -
He moved to promote regular life. China moved over to Communist side. -
The UN and South korea froced an advance toward the 38th parallel. The UN told MacArthur to cross the 38th parallel and reunite Korea. (no specific date found) -
President Truman publicly announced his decision to support the development of the H-bomb. It is believed to be 100 times more powerful then the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. -
The Korean war finally started after 5 years of tensions. The Northern Korean army invaded the South Korea in a coordinated general attack. -
This was pronouced an official government agency via The Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on this day. This was orgaized by preident Truman. -
Truman had believed that MacArthur was planning on running agaisnt him for President. MacArthur threatened to pass secrets to China nationalists if Truman didn't use the atomic weapons aon the Communists. -
While Truman and MacArthur had their fight(when he fired MacArthur), there was a cease-fire that had been pushed into effect. -
This conference was to determine the approval of the European Army. They decided to approve the European Army. -
Truman authorized that work be done on the hydrogen bomb. The bomb was much more powerful. It was finihsed and ready in 1952. -
The American people rejected the party in power, the Democrats. Dwight Eisenhower was elected as president. -
They tested over 928 atomic bombs here in the Nevada Test site. On March 17, they tested 11 nuclear bombs. -
The war ended on this day. It ended because of the signing of the armistice. It was signed to seperate North and South Korea. -
In his Atoms for Peace Speech, Eisenhower tried to solve the problem by suggesting to transform the atom from a scourge into a benefit. -
The first of a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests that were conducted. This bomb was housed in a cylinder that weighed about 23,500 pounds. -
This was the main security agencyfor the Soviet Union. it was formed to to serv as the "sword and shield of the Communist party". -
McCarthy made accussations agaisnt the U.S. Amry. The hearing was on national television. The American people watched as McCarthy bully witnesses and produced no evidence. He lost public favor and was voted to be condemned. -
President Eisenhower went on a trip to play a few rounds of golf in Cherry Hills Golf Club. He suffered a Heart attack and took 6 weeks to recover.(no specific date found) -
AKA The Central Treaty Organization. A military alliance of the Cold war. It was between Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the UK. -
This is an alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations. This was formed because NATO was formed. -
400 tanks and 10,000 soldiers were ordered to suppress the demonstration. During the pacification, theyfired at protesting civilians. -
Hungarians asked to leave the Warsaw Pact. But instead the Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary. They crushed the reform movement. Many reformers were killed and other fled the country. -
Egypt seized the control of the Suez Canal. It was owned by Britain and France who built it. Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to take back the canal. -
The Soviets developed an ICBM. An intercontinental ballistic missle. This rocket could travel much farther then American rockets and could carry nuclear weapons. -
The Soviets shocked the world with th launch of Sputnik l. It was the first artifical satelite to orbit the earth. -
Laika was a stray dog that was selected to occupy the Soviet spacecraft. She went into orbit on November 3 and she died of suffocation/overheating hours into the flight. -
Project Mercry was the first human spaceflight program of the US. NASA began Mercury project using Atlas rocket.(no specific date found) -
Americans improved their teaching of science and technology. American scientists worked to catch up. The United States successfully launched its first satellite. -
Khrushchev demanded the withdrawal of troops from Berlin. He delivered a speech where he demanded that the Western Power of the US, Great Britain, and France pull out of West Berlin. -
Fidel Castro took part in the cuban revolution. He asumed military and political power as Cuba's prime minister. -
Khrushchev visited the US. This debate was a series of exchanges between Nixon, Khrushchev, and others. -
Member of states vote against the admission of China to the United Nations. -
President Eisenhower's term came to a close. Many Americans worried abut the future. -
The CIA used U-2 aircrafts that flew high enough so the could not be shot down. A plane was shot down on May 1 over the Soviet Union. The pilot, Francis Gary Powers , was captured. -
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon face off in the 1960 election. Kennedy was a democratic senator and Nixon was Eisenhower's Vice-President. -
Kennedy faced a problem in Berlin. The city was still divided. East berlin was under communist control and West was under control of Great Britain, France, and the US. Almost 3 million East Germans fled into West Berlin. (no specific date) -
The soviest launched a person into orbit around the earth. TThe news stunned America. A space race then quckly began. -
The Invasion called the Bay of pigs occurred. This was a failed landing opporatin on the southwest coast of Cuba. -
On February 10th, Francis Gary Powers and American Student Frederic Pryor exchanged for Soviet KGB Colonel Vilyam Fisher. -
This was a 35 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. This escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments. -
This was the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. On the morning of the 28, Khrushchev issued a notice that all missile will be dismantled. -
This was one of Kennedy's and Khruschev's other agreements. This treaty banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere. -
Kennedy and Khrushchev attempted to reach an agreement. They established a hot line between their nations. This connected them and allowed them to talk directly when crisis arose. -
President JFK was assasinated in Dallas, TX while campaining for re-electon. -
When Kennedy was assasinated, Johnson took over the role as president The followng year(1964) he was elected as president. -
Johnson launched his own program. This act created youth programs, antipoverty measures, small buisness loans, and job training. -
China tested their nuclear bombs on the 16 of october. They are now the 5th member of the exclusive club of nation with atomic bomb capabilities. -
This opened the door for many non-european immigrant to settle in the US. (no specific date found) -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protests. They were held along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
To ensure the health care fr aged and poor. Funded the building of public housing units. -
He negotiated towards a settlement but the US was comittied to withdrawing its troops. -
The rift deepened when General De Gaulle officially announced that France intended to withdraw from the alliance. -
U.S. military sprayed herbicides across more than 4.5 million acres of Vietnam. It was to destroy the forest cover and food crops used by enemies in North Vietnamese.