History

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

President Truman

Period: Apr 12, 1945 to Jan 20, 1953

Hitlers death

May 30, 1945

Potsdam

Jul 16, 1945

Iron Curtain

Period: Jan 1, 1946 to Dec 31, 1948

Truman Doctrine

Mar 12, 1947

military and ecnomic aid for Greece to prevent fall to communism

Cominform founded

Oct 5, 1947

Marshall aid

Dec 5, 1947

Berlin Blockade

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949

NATO

Apr 1, 1949

USSR's first atomic bomb test succesful

Aug 29, 1949

China became communist

Oct 1, 1949

Mc Carthyism

Period: Jan 1, 1950 to Dec 31, 1954

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

USA first H-bomb detonation

Nov 1, 1952

Eisenhower

Period: Jan 20, 1953 to Jan 20, 1961

USSR first h-bomb detonation

Aug 12, 1953

Warsaw pact

May 1, 1955

Vietnam War

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Montgomery Bus boycott

Period: Dec 1, 1955 to Dec 20, 1956

Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 4, 1957

Kennedy

Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 22, 1963

Start Berlin Wall

Aug 13, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962

Birmingham march

Apr 1, 1963

was in april but not the 1st

Johnson

Period: Nov 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969

Civil Rights Movement signed by Johnson

Jul 2, 1964

My Lai massacre

Mar 16, 1968

Nixon

Period: Jan 20, 1969 to Aug 9, 1974

resigned after watergate scandal

Watergate Scandal , Burglars found

Jun 17, 1972