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The First Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field.
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President Truman, Soviet Premier Stalin and British Prime ministers Churchill and Attlee Discussed Post-war arrangements in Europe, Future moves against japan were also covered.
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”
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The British told the US that Great Britain would no longer give financial aid to Greece and Turkey's governments.
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In October 1947, 10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
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the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Europe and Asia that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union
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The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
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Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city.
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an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. Became more significant during the Korean Way in the early 1950s.Rivalry with the Warsaw Pact which was the USSR's military alliance. The Soviet Union was a communist superpower that were the opponents of the U.S.
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the USSR successfully tests its first atomic bomb, "First Lightning." The explosion destroyed all of the surrounding structures built to test the strength. Just a few days later, a U.S. spy plane picked up radioactivity from the explosion
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former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II
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the Korean War began when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army went across the 38th parallel.
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Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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An effort to resolve several problems in Asia, including the war between the French and Vietnamese nationalists in Indochina.
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McCarthy begins hearings investigating the United States Army, which he charges with being “soft” on communism. These televised hearings gave the American public their first view of McCarthy in action
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decisive engagement in the first Indochina War (1946–54)
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The Warsaw Pact (Warsaw Treaty Organization) was a political and military alliance. It was created between the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The Soviet Union created this to balance out the National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Hungary is viciously crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on this day in 1956. Thousands were killed and wounded and nearly a quarter-million Hungarians fled the country.
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the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers
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The CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro, The attack was a failure.
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The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
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the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles In Cuba
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President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother are captured and killed by a group of soldiers causing a major turning point in the war
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on Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
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U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions.
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joins the rank of nations with atomic bomb capability. China is the fifth country to do so.
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U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders
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70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
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U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Kennedy was fatally shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later.
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200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” peaceful protests faild
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at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets
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Republican challenger Richard Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey
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Nixon announced that they need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of the Vietnam War effort. At Kent State University the riot got to out of hand prompting the governor of Ohio to dispatch 900 National Guardsmen to the campus.
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Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China
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A cease-fire goes into effect at 8 a.m., Saigon time (midnight on January 27, Greenwich Mean Time).
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the outskirts of Saigon were reached by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA).
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Ronald Reagan won the election by a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate.
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President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, signaling a massive paradigm shift in U.S. policy on nuclear policy. Dubbed “Star Wars” after the 1977 movie,
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President Ronald Reagan made a speech to the people of West Berlin contains one of the most memorable lines spoken during his presidency. "Tear Down The Wall"
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The infamous fall of the Berlin Wall started On midnight of that day, East Germany's Communist rulers gave permission for gates along the Wall to be opened as a result of days of mass protest.
