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Marshall Plan
The marshall plan aid was divided amongst the participant states roughly on a per capita basis a larger amount was given to the major industrial powers as the prevailing opinion was that their resuscitation was essential for general european revival. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the korean war began when some 75,000 soldiers from the north korean People’s army poured across the 38th parallel the boundary between the soviet backed democratic People’s republic of korea to the north and the pro western republic of korea to the south. -
Election of Eisenhower
Eisenhower slightly improved upon his 1952 majorities in both the popular and electoral vote he maintained his 1952 gains among Democrats especially white urban southerners and northern catholics. -
Start of Vietnam War
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 -
Bay of pigs
The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones located on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961 -
Berlin Wall
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, East Germany, starting on 13 August 1961, the wall cut off by land west berlin from virtually all of surrounding east germany and east berlin until government officials opened it in november 1989 -
Assassination of Kennedy
jon was killed on november 22 1963 at 12;00 -
Election of Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977 -
Election of Carter
Jimmy Carter took his first step on the road to the White House in 1972 by becoming chair of the Democratic Governor's Campaign Committee, and then his second step in 1974 by getting himself named as the campaign chairman of the Democratic National Committee -
Election of Reagan
The United States presidential election of 1980 was the 49th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 1980. Republican nominee Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter.
