-
-
A speech given by Churchill that is one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.
-
A system created by the Soviet Union that provided aid to rebuild countries
-
The U.S would provide political, military and economic help to all democratic nations that were under threat from external or internal forces
-
10 members of the Hollywood film industry publicly denounced the tactics employed by the HUAC. They received jail sentences and were banned from working for the major Hollywood studios
-
An economic recovery act
-
June 24 1948-May 12 1949
The U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. They carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo. -
Soviet Union blocked the Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin.
-
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
-
Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb. To measure the effects of the blast, scientists constructed bridges, buildings, and other structures, in range of the bomb.
-
an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury
-
North Korea invade south Korea. United States aid the south and the soviet union aids the north
-
Julius and Ethel were spies for the Soviet Union. Put on trial and executed
-
-
the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries.
-
series of hearings nvestigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy
-
A conference to find a way to settle outstanding issues in the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina.
-
A treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union
-
Soviet tanks came to stop Hungarian protesters
-
The convention was held during a year of violence, political turbulence, and civil unrest, particularly riots in more than 100 cities following the assassination of MLK
-
United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
-
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506
-
A barrier that divided Berlin from East Germany. From 1961 to November 9 1989
-
Kennedy is told cuba has missiles and over the next 13 days resolves the crisis
-
Diem and his brother were both brutally murdered
-
He was shot twice, in Dallas, Texas, and an hour after his death Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime.
-
Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing president Johnson to do anything he believed was necessary to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.
-
series of bombs against North Vietnam
-
One of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese army against the South Vietnamese
-
James Earl Ray shot and killed King in Memphis
-
Kennedy was shot while exiting through the hotel kitchen immediately after leaving the podium in the Ambassador Hotel and died in the hospital six hours later.
-
About 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia
-
thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, while the Democratic Party falls apart over an internal disagreement concerning its stance on Vietnam.
-
The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, won the election over the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey
-
The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard
-
Nixon's historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China.
-
a temporary stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions.
Each side held that military operations were justified by the other side’s violations of the cease-fire. What resulted was an almost endless chain of retaliations. -
between incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, former California Governor Ronald Reagan
-
a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.
-
Reagan makes a speech in front of the Berlin wall to tear it down
-
wall gets teared down
