OL history

By bxiong4

  • marshall plan

    American initiative enacted to provide foreign aid to western europe. The US transferred $13.3 billion in economic recovery programs.

  • Nato Formed

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization created by the US, Canada, and western European nations to provide security against the soviet union.

  • Hollywood Ten

    American 16mm short documentary film. Each member made a short speech denouncing McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklisting.

  • korean war

    A war between North and South Korea from 1950-1953. War started when North Korea invaded South Korea with clashes along the border.
  • Bay of pigs

    Bay of pigs

    This invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southern coast of Cuba.
  • Berlin wall goes up

    Berlin wall goes up

    The communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete Antifaschistischer Schutzwall between West and East Berlin.

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan

    This war lasted over 9 years. Insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujahideen fought against the occupying forces of the Soviet Union and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
  • Berlin wall comes down

    Berlin wall comes down

    The head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased.