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Soviet Unions Iron Curtain (Start)
A physical boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas, western and eastern controlled by the Soviet Union. It served as a buffer to separate communism and capitalism. -
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Soviet Union's Iron Curtain
A physical boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas, western and eastern controlled by the Soviet Union. It served as a buffer to separate communism and capitalism. -
Soviet Union Emerges as a Superpower Nation
The Soviet Union emerged as one of the Superpower nations after WWII. This cause an arms race, between the soviets and the United States of America because the Soviets were communitst and the US was not. -
Japan's Amnesty Agreement
Japan committed many war crimes, but with US amnesty we granted them a "get out of jail free card" that was an agreement for Japan to give us all of their information on human expirenmentation that was done on captive soldiers. -
The Iron Curtain Speach
Prime Minister Winston Churchill former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech is considered one of the opening volleys announcing the beginning of the Cold War.
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Berlin Airlift
During the era of the iron curtain and Berlin wall, there were limited supplies so the U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of the city from the air. This effort, known as the “Berlin Airlift,” lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin. (History.com) -
Communists Begin to Win the Cold War
China gets ahead in the cold war and begins to look like they are winning the war. -
The Korean War
Conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The division of the two was on the 38th Parallel. (http://www.britannica.com/event/Korean-War) -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a supreme court case that ordered the desegregation of all schools and school districts. That included all people of race, gender, and backrounds. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. (wikipedia) -
Arrest of Rosa Parks
A 42-year old African American woman refused to move to the back of the bus for the white people. This started the year long Montgomery Buss Boycott, which also lead to many civil rights acts. -
Cuban Misile Crisis
13 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over balistic misiles deployed in Cuba -
Election of 1960
One of the closest elections in American history between Richard Nixon and the Democratic newcomer John F. Kennedy senator from Massachusetts. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
First Man on the Moon
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." (Neil Armstrong) Among the cold war there was a competiton between the two super powers, The US and the Soviet Union to see who would get to the moon first. America won in July 1969 when Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon for the first time. -
The Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat, in Ukraine, which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
