The Cold War

By Tyler K
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    Chinese Civil War

    Civil war in China
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    House Un-American Activities Committee

    an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

  • McCarthy Trials

    A series of trials against people acused of being communists

  • End of WWII

    World War 2 ends

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

    Winston Churchill makes his iron curtain speech

  • Marshal plan

    The plan to help the war torn Europe out of economic struggles

  • Berlin Airlift

    During the time that the soviets blockaided West Berlin, the U.S. brought in supplies to the city by airdrop.

  • Rosenberg Execution

    Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed for espionage

  • Cuban Revolution

    Fidel Castro revolts against the Cuban dictator.

  • Hungarian Revolution

    Nationwide revolt against the Soviet controll over the country of Hungary.

  • U2 Incident

    A United States U2 plane is shot down by Soviets

  • Creation of the Berlin Wall

    The Soviets built a wall separating East and West Berlin to keep people from going to Democratic West Berlin.
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    Cuban Missile Crisis

    USSR sneaks nuclear missiles in cuba

  • Limited Test Ban Treaty

    Treaty banning the testing of Nuclear weapons

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

    The name of two different confrontations in Vietnam. One real, one not real.

  • Tet Offensive

    Suprise attack after a holiday and funeral for dead vietcong which were really live vietcong hiding.

  • Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Soviet Union and her main sattelite states invaded Czechoslovakia

  • Nixon Visits China

    Richard Nixon goes to Bejing

  • SALT 1 Treaty

    Strategic Missile treaty

  • Fall of Saigon

    U.S. troops leave Vietnam

  • Soviet Invasion of Afganistan

    The USSR invades Afganistan in the middle east

  • Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)

    The President's plan to launch laser sattelites into space to attack balistic misslies launched by the Soviets

  • 1980 Olympic Boycott

    Many countries boycotted the 1980 olympic games in Moscow.

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Berlin wall is torn down

  • Break up of the Soviet Union

    Soviet Union is separated