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The Iron Curtain Speech
A speech given by Winston Churchill, stated the division of Europe. It was divided between the Soviet Union and its satellite states, and the West, non-soviet controlled areas. The imaginary boundary was known as the Iron Curtain. -
The Marshall Plan
Initiated by the U.S., the Marshall plan was a rescue plan to help renew European nations' damaged industries on both sides of the war. Like the U.S. economy, the plan created a concoction of public organization of the private economy. The plan also benefited European economic integration and federalism. -
The Molotov Plan
The Soviet Unions, Marshall plan version was the Molotov Plan. It provided help in Eastern Europe to rebuild countries that were economically and politically in agreement to the Soviet Union. -
The Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established, with the help of the U.S. congress, the Truman Doctrine in 1947. It aided Turkey and Greece from Soviet Union taking over, when Russia decided not to help economically after WWII. -
The Berlin Airlift
After WWII, Berlin was divided into four sections. The Soviets closed all land traffic to Berlin from West Germany. The U.S. still wanted to help so it did so by air, providing food and supplies. This became to be known as the Berlin Aircraft. -
The Berlin Blockade
Established by the Soviet Union, the Berlin blockade blocked the western allies’ railroad and canal access to the sectors of Berlin. It constricted the supply of goods and in response the western allies organized the Berlin airlift. -
NATO
The north alliance treaty organization is a military alliance between states across North America and Europe. -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Test
The Soviets developed an atomic bomb directed by nuclear physicist Igor Kurchatov. The test successfully took place in Semipalatinsk, Kasakhstan, making them the second nation in possession of a nuclear device. -
Geneva Conference
The conference was in Geneva, Switzerland, trying to find a way to solve issues in the Korean peninsula and restore peace in Indochina. -
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The first Indochina war between the French and Viet Minh’s troops in the Dien Bien Phu valley. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty signed from the Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites. It established that they would come to defense of each other if attacked from an outside force, and set up a unified military command. -
The Invasion of Hungary
Hungarian protesters demanded the government for a more democratic political system and freedom. -
The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall began to be built by the Soviet Union to divide Berlin between west and east. It was primarily built to keep East Germans from fleeing to the democratic west. -
Assassination od Diem
After the government of South vietnam was overthrown troops arrested him with his younger brother and on the way to the military quarters he was executed. Many people celebrated his death but it also brought chaos to the nation -
Assassination of JFK
Working for his campaign, JFK rode through Dallas, Texas when three shots were fired and he was shot twice to death. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the crime an hour after he died. -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
On August 4, 1964 North Vietnamese attacked US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and president asked congress for a resolution to be able to do anything that he thought was necessary. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Title for the sustained bombing in North Vietnam. It was planned to last 8 weeks, but lasted three and a half years. -
TET Offensive
A coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. The largest military campaign of the Vietnam war, launched by about 70 thousand North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was assassinated by a single shot that struck his face and neck when he was standing on a motel balcony, in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. Who confessed in March that he was planning it and committed the crime -
Assassination of RFK
After winning the California presidential primary Robert Francis Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan, later dying at Good Samaritan Hospital. Sirhan so said he shot RFK, because he objected his support for the six day war in Israel. Sirhan is still alive and in prison in California serving his life sentence. -
The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia and take control of Prague, stopping Eastern European communism from dividing the city. -
Riots at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
Thousands of Vietnam war protesters converged down the site, battling police in the streets. Trying to turn public opinion against the war. While inside in the conference the feel was contentious. With media coverage the city grew violent. -
Election of Richard Nixon
In the 46th quadrennial presidential election republican Nixon won the election over the democratic nominee, Vice president Hubert Humphrey. -
Kent State shooting
Demonstrators faced off Ohio national guardsmen, when they opened fire on a crowd killing 4 students. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
When Henry Kissinger returned from Paris with a peace proposal of France, president ordered a ceasefire of the bombings in North Vietnam. The Saigon government rejected it, protesting they had been sold out. The ceasefire was finally reached in January 27. -
Fall of Saigon
US agreed to not put troops in Vietnam and stay out of that foreign affair. President Nixon promised we would continue to aid and we would respond with full force if the communist violated ceasefire. In panic desperate for protection US helicopters shuttled more than 7k people out of vietnam. The next day communist stormed in the presidential gates of Saigon and got their independence.
