The Cold War (1947- 1991)

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  • • Tuskegee Airmen (1941)

  • • Navajo Code Talkers (1941)

  • • Executive Order 9066 (1942)

  • • Executive Order 9066 (1942)

  • • Bataan Death March (1942)

  • • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) (1944)

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  • United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

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  • • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima (1945)

  • • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day (1945)

  • • Liberation of Concentration Camps (1945)

  • • Victory in Europe (VE) Day (1945)

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    United Nations

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    : Harry S. Truman (1945- 1953)

  • • Nuremberg Trials (1946)

  • Truman Doctrine (1947)

    The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey

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    The Cold War

  • • Marshall Plan (1948)

  • Berlin Airlift (1948)

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    Berlin airlift definition. A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall ), had cut off its supply routes.

  • NATO Formed (1949)

    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.

  • ho chi minh established communist rule in vietnam

    A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s (see World War II), France in the 1950s (see Dienbienphu), and the United States in the 1960s (see Vietnam War). He died in 1969.
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  • tet offensive

    Tet offensive definition. A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Early in 1968, Vietnamese communist troops seized and briefly held some major cities at the time of the lunar new year, or Tet.

  • my lai massacre

    The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968.

  • vietnamization

    (in the Vietnam War) the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.

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    The Woodstock Music & Art Fair—informally, the Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock— was a music festival in the United States in 1969 which attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

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  • invasion of cambodia

    The Cambodian Campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during 1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam as an extension of the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War.

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  • 26 amendment

    The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old.

  • war powers resolution

    The War Powers Resolution (also known as the War Powers Resolution of 1973 or the War Powers Act) (50 U.S.C. 1541–1548) is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

  • fall of saigon

    The Fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam on 30 April 1975