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Red Scare
Was known as the McCarthyism this was the fear that people had in a nation fear of the spread of communism. This happened int he US after WWI and during the war after known as the cold war, the scare is also the cause of the death of Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg -
Potsdam Conference
*conference took place close to Berlin
*lasted till August 2.
*Involved the US, The Soviet Union, and Great Brittian.
*The conference was held to get rid of tension between the three. But it was placed because of suspicion and tnsion between the first two. -
Vietnam War (US involvment)
Afraid of the spread of communism would make it to Vietnam and Southern Asia The US started involving themselves more with Vietnam when they loaned money to the french during the Indochina War. Vietnam chose to seperate into tow groups, communist north vietnam and also anti Communist Southern part. The south wanted nothing to do with the north. The US got involved and refused the election. Kennedy sent out about 17k military men to supportsouth vietnam, in 1964, -
Iron Curtain descends on Europe
*Winston Churchhill the brittish prime minister says. , "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."
*This was one way of telling the people about the beging of the Cold War. * -
Truman Doctrine
In a speech to connected session of Congress, President Truman asks for America;s. help or Greece and Turkey to stall communist domination of them both People have seen quite frequently Truman's location which was soon recognized to be Truman Doctrine, as the official declaration of the Cold War. -
Formation of NATO
Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization was a miliatry based alliance that protected those nations who were not communist in West Europe. It also heped to prevent the World War III starting by enemies.
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Marshall Plan
*Helped Gain money, up 13 billion dollars
* Know as the European Recovery Program
* The Soviet Union refused to take part in this event
*Polan, and Czechoslovakia were banned to take part as well even though they wanted to, the soviet union wold not alow it.
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Bay of Pigs invasion
Nation of Isreal was the very first Jewish state in like 2000 years, this was a very great day for people of the new Israel. Even f Great Brittian tok back their army and Egypt started Assaults through air travel -
Korean War
The northern part of Korea invaded the south part. This was the first military invasion during the Cold War, Americans believed this was a communist act, believed they wanted to take over the world. The US sent its troops to make the communist leave south Korea , but at the first fall of that war, came it turned into a war to liberate the North part of Korea from all of the communists
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Communist Which hunt
Taking a hold of the red scare in the United States, J. McCarthy made a list of 205 State Department staff members, who he claimed were members of the American Communist Party. -
Ivy Mike
The first hydrogen bomb created was made by the Us it was also the biggest bomb to be created and made the biggest ball of fire. It created Einsteinium and Fermium and elements that have bever been doscovered. Ivy mike also completely vaporized the place where it was kept, and this place was called Elugelab -
Rosenberg Spy Case
Julius and Ethel were found guilty of espionage when tehy had top secret info that they were relaying to the SU concerning the Atomic bomb that the Us had. Julius was killed by electricution and was the first to be in the electric chair, and then they did the same to ethel. They died 16 minutes apart. They had been spying to get their information that they had. -
USS Nautilus
The naautilus was a submarine, that was 323 feet long and was able to hold anddisplace 92 tons when under water, and it was the first to submarine to ever be pwered just by nuclear energy, the Nautilus was built by and electric boat compant in Conneticut -
Warsaw Pact
This was an agrement of all the countries that signed including the SU , but not the US.. It gave Soviet people the right to order their miliatry of all the countries who signed this pact. The 7 others that Signed were, Poland, Albania, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, And Czechoslovakia . These were all part of the Warsaw Pact. -
Suez Crisis
*Israeli invaded Egypt toward the Suez Canal
*The french and brittish forced soon joined them.
*Causing a cold war problem in the Middle East
*Egyption military had been pressuring brittian to end their military being in the canal zone, this was part of the cause for the Suez Crisis.
* in early 1957 B rittian, France, And Israeli withdrew from the situation -
Sputnik I & Sputnik II
Sputnik was the first artificial satelite to be launched, Sputniks diameter was twenty-two inches and weighed 184 pounds and orbited Earth about every half and half. The first Inited States satellite,, was launched on Jan. 31st 1958. at that time, the Soviets already accomplished one more victory when a dog was launched into space on the Sputnik Two. -
Shooting Match
N. Krushchev said suring an interview that the SU and the Us should take part in a shooting match, when the US saw this interview they became more fearful that they were falling more behind into the arms race with the SU. -
NASA is formed
- the establishment of nasa being formed was said to be a sign of the US commiting to the win of the space race with the Soviet union. In OCT 1957 first satelite launched to orbit the earth.
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Khrushchev visiting Los Angeles
Krushchev is known because he has a bad temper. When anto communist madde a cooment about communist and the SU he was not very pleased and threatened the anti communist. to make it worse he wanted to disney land but for his safety the governemt would not allow it. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
Kennedy forced the CIA to gather a force of bannished Cuban exiles to attack in Cuba in March a year later. Even though kennedy knew this would not look good ont he US he still made it happen. Right away the invasion fell when Castro forced his troops to counter attack the exiles ships with out warning, and completely unexpected -
Berlin Wall Costructed
*Originally built out of Barbed Wire un August on the night of the 12th.
*On the 15th re-constructed out of concrete.
*Divided Eatern part of Germany from the West.
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Checkpoint Charlie Incident
This was a stand off betweent he US of american tanks, and the USSR tanks. At checkpoint. Soon after the berlin wall was constructed. This happened because they had a dispute about Eart German gaurds were or were not authorized by Gov Authority, to examine examine Allan L;s travel Doc. he was the Us diplomat. He wanted to pass through checkpoint charlie. only to view an Opera . a few days later both the Us and the SU their tanks spread out on either side of the checkpoint -
Tsar Bomba
This was the biggest bomb to be made due to demand from Krushchev. It sent out 50 megatons in one nanosecond. Sakharov made the Tsar Boma. The wave fromt his bomb could wrap around the earth 3 whole times -
Cuban Missle Crisis
US spy planes discovered Missle bases on Cuban islands.
*Kennedy sent out Naval ships to make it so soviet ships could not transport weapons to contribute tot he missle bases. and blockoutt traffic to the island
*Kenneday would not withstand it.
*Missles were big enough to take out a city the size of Washington DC -
USS Pueblo Incident
The USS Pueblo was an american ship, that held 83 men. In January of 1968, the ship was within a 12 mile radius of Korean Terriorty. Korean men, boarded and took over the ship, when americans tried to escape Korean people shot the commander and two officers, the Americans were then taken to Pyongyang, where they were charged as spies, and were beaten while being forced to study propaganda. In December, the US and Korea came to an agreement and Korea released the 82 surviving men back the US. -
Berlin Air Lift
This was th US's way of transporting food, medicine, and other items by planes and helicopters etc, over the wall seperating apart West Berlin's land transportation, This helped up to 2 million people for nearly a year. -
SALT I
S- Strategic
A-Arms
L- Limitation
T-Treaty
One of the first meetings for SALT I was between the US and SU in august of this year. was the day that the US Senate signed the approval of this treaty -
Iran Hostage Crisis
In 1979 60 americans were taken hostage by a few iranians students. America had allowed Shah, a man banned from Iran, to come to the US for medical treatment against Cancer, but there was more to it than just that. It was also Irans way of making it so American could no-longer interfere with Irans ways. -
Korean Air Lines 007
SU attacked a US plane that crossed over and that had miliatry bases that they had owned, when no response was heard they shot a missle causing the plane to crash down, and kill everyone who was on it which was 269 people, being passengers and crew members, the US took this in and then suspended all SU passenger airforces who were to cross onto the US land This misunderstanding raised the tension between the Us and the SU dramaticly -
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U.S. & Soviet boycotts of the Olympics
Moscow was boycotted by the US in the summer of 1980, during the olympics. The US was protesting against the invasion of Afganistan by the SU (Soviet Union) . The next olypmics was to take place in Los Angeles , where the US was boycotted by the SU, because the SU (soviet Union) was not liked bt many Americans. -
Chernobyl Disaster
When a group of engineers were testin an experiment using reactor physics (which they knew little to no knowledge about). They wanted to test wether or not if on inertial power that thereactors turbine could run emergency pumps for water. When this experiment faileda explosion cause by chemicals happened, 50 tons of radioactive material was released. They evacuated peole quietly not wanted them to know what happened, they denied it happened it happened 8 miles away fromthe nuclear factory,. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Chinese miliatary groupss invade Tiananmen Square in the middle of the state of Beijing, killing and arresting many many, possibly thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The aawful Chinese gov. attack on those people shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions all the way from America -
Malta Summit
3 weeks after the deconstrustion of the Berlin wall, President Bush and the leader of the USSR demaned that the Cold War end,they both hesitated a bit about if it was true for usre. This was considered the Summit that marked the tension between the two superpowers were declining -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Last Soviet Flag was flown over Moscow
just days before, representatives from several states(Ukraine, the Russian Federation,Moldova Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, , Armenia, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) gathered together in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and said they wouldnt be part of the Soviet Union. they said that for a change, they announced they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. -
William N. Oatis
William was Associated Press that lived in Prague he was convicted of espionage because of a fake confession He did not want to lie under oath he was forced to lie and confess by being sleep deprived for 48 hours or more also he was pressured psychologically.
