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Harry S. Truman's Presidency
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World War II Outcomes
At the end of WWII, the German regime was left severly damaged as seen by this image and it was up to the Allied forces to basically put the pieces back together again. http://www.mysocialstudiesteacher.com/wiki/images/b/b8/Germanrubble.jpg -
United Nations
Formed in part by FDR, the United Nations is an international organization composed of independent states brought together to encourage diplomacy and peace between various countries. The UN is also ensuring that countries, and especially Germany/ Axis countries, included in the organization obey international laws http://pressroom.ipc-undp.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Pictures-for-Uploading31.jpg -
Truman Doctrine
With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations who are under the threat of communistic nations and to prevent Soviet intervention. This document was first used in Greeceand Turkey. https://o.quizlet.com/Klq7B4tRmp48hEgZFwnLqQ_m.png -
Red Scare
Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare (becuase Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag). The advancement of communism in countries like Japan, as well as the heightened strength of the Soviet Union left the Americans on the edge. http://cdn.history.com/sites/2/2014/02/redscare-AB.jpeg -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Europe proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. http://adst.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Marshall-Plan-shipments.jpg -
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
This organization was based off of the North Atlantic Treaty and was formed out of the fear that the Soviet Union would ally militarily with Eastern European nations (the Warsaw Pact), and thus become a threat to Western Europe and the United States. The North Atlantic Treaty which it was based on declares that attack of one member country is an attack on them all. http://i63.servimg.com/u/f63/13/93/71/70/natogi10.png -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the concept of making false accusations based on a rumor of guilt by association. The term came around after Senator Joseph McCarthy recklessly accused hundreds of government officials of being communists without any evidence to back him up. http://modkraft.dk/sites/default/files/1953mc.jpg -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (communist North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea who the U.S. occupied). The UN with the United States as a principle component fought on the side of South Korea. After over a million casualties, no side gained an advantage and the 38th parallel still remains today to seperate the two countries. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~park25h/classweb/worldpolitics/images/KoreanWar4.jpg -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The Vietnam War
This conflict pitted the communist governemnt of North Vietnam and allies known as Viet Cong against Sourth Korea and its allies the United States. The war was also part of a larger regional conflict (Indochina wars). This war also caused exreme dissatisfaction from the American people who did not feel we needed to be losing lives in this war. U.S. combat units were withdrawn in 1973 and in 1975 South Vietnam fell to a full-scale invasion by the North. http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Co -
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John F. Kennedy
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Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro. Kennedy approved of this plan but it failed and left a lot of embarrasment for the country. http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/fn-latino/news/660/371/bay%20of%20pigs2.jpg?ve=1&tl=1 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. After President Kennedy unsuccesfully asked them to remove it, he ordered a naval blocade to prevent anotehr dilivery of missiles. The Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles if the U.S. promises not to attack Cuba. https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/ -
Kennedy's Assassination
JFK, the 35th Presdnet of the United States, was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling with his wife Jacqueline. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was subsequently sworn into office as President. http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/121122030516-jfk-assassination-1122-story-top.jpg -
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Richard Nixon
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Ronald Reagan
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George H. W. Bush
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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
On this day, Germans finally brought down this symbol of division. Just two years following this event, other communist regimes of Eastern Europe would collapse like dominoes. https://fatherdrom.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/blogspan.jpg -
Persian Gulf War
This was a war that began in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait and ended in 1991 when a coalition of countries led by the United States expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait and destroyed much of Iraq's military capability. http://caveofknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GulfWahmed.jpg -
Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union's reign began to come to an end in 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev became to new leader of Russia. He and President Reagan came together to create the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to destroy nuclear weapons. http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Collapse-of-Soviet-Union.jpg -
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Bill Clinton
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NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
The North American Free Trade Agreement, abbreviated NAFTA, is an agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico that eliminated tariffs and duties on trade between the three countries. Trade barriers began dropping as of Jan. 1, 1994, and were completely eliminated on schedule by Jan. 1, 2008. data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wCEAAkGBxQREhUTExQVFhUWFhwbFRgXGBsaGBoYGBwZG -
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George W. Bush
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September 11th Terrorist Attack
On this day, Islamic terrorists, believed to be part of the Al-Qaeda network, hijacked four commercial airplanes and crashed two of them into the World Trade Center in New York City and a third one into the Pentagon in Virginia: the fourth plane crashed into a field in rural Pennsylvania. The President at this time was George W. Bush. http://stateofthenation2012.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/clark4-800x555.jpg -
War in Afghanistan
This was an international conflict in Afghanistan beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks on the world trade center's twin towers. Bush responded by going to war against Afghanistan. http://capitolhilloutsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/afghanistan-war.jpg -
War in Iraq
Along with Iraq's alleged development of WMDs, another justification for this war was the purported link between Saddam Hussein's government and terrorist organizations, in particular Al-Qaeda. In that sense, the Bush Administration cast the Iraq war as part of the broader War on Terrorism. http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hires_080804-A-8725H-341.jpg
