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Rusion revolution
The US does not like how with communism people have no control. People were tired of the war and starving, people started rebelling for a higher ration of bead. Zar Nickolas was overthrown and they got new freedoms including rights for women. -
Iron Curtain
The iron curtain is the name of the area which divided Europe into two areas at the end of world war 2 made by the Soviet Union it separated the west and the East. The name iron curtain came about when Winston Churchill gave a speech on March 5th 1946. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." -
Postdam Conference
In 1945 President Truman and British prime minister Winston Churchill were on one side to secure political freedoms and democratic governments throughout Europe. Joseph Stallen wanted to dominate all of Europe and force communism on its nations. The allies won the war but their alliance could not handle the peace. -
Atomic bomb Hiroshima/Nagasaki
President Harry Truman ordered an American B-29 bomber to drop the worlds first atomic bomb in Hiroshima located in Japan. The explosion of the bomb wiped out 90% of the city and killed 80,000 people and tens of thousands died later because of radiation. Three days later another B-29 bomber drooped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, this bomb killed around 40,000 people. This caused Japan to surrender. -
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The first Indochina war between the French Unions French far East Expeditionary corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalists revolutionaries. The Viet Minh hid in caves and mountains which looked over French camps. Viet Minh forces overran the base and prompted the French to surrender. -
Truman Doctrine
A document stating that if the Soviet Union threatens anyone then the US will protect the threatened area. Truman wanted to contain and rebuild Western Nations. The US donated food, nets, coal, and other supplies to Europe in order to held rebuild. -
Molotov Plan
The Soviet Union created this system called the Molotov plan that provided aid that rebuilt the country's in Eastern Europe that were economically and politically aliened to the Soviet Union. It was (officially the Economic Recovery Program), ERP). -
Hollywood 10
A group of people who refused to answer about their possible Communist affiliations. they went to prison and because of them congress passed an internal security bill of 1950 and empowered government to take power against every risk. Because if all of this La was concerned about. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshal plan which is also known as the European Recovery Program got $13 billion dollars to finance the economic recovery of Europe. The plan was named after Secretary of Sate George C. Marshal who spoke at Harvard University on June 5th 1947. America thought it was a generous plan to Europe at the time while the Soviet Union viewed it at an attempt to interfere in the the internal affairs of other sates. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was attempted by the Soviet Union to stop France, Great Britain, and the United States to travel in their sectors of Berlin which are in Russian -occupied East Germany. The western powers instituted an airlift that lasted a year and delivered supplies to West Berlin. -
Berlin Airlift
At the end of World War 2, the British, Soviet Union, and the US military divided and occupied Germany, they divided into occupation zones. The Soviet Union controlled eastern Germany while the United States and France controlled the Western parts of the city. But that ended when. They tried to decide weather the Western occupation zones in Berlin would remain under Western allied control or if the city would be absorbed into Soviet controlled Eastern German. -
NATO
The North Atlantic treaty organization is a military alliance between several North American and European States based. Twelve countries in North America and Western Europe met in Washington D.C. to sign the treaty. It basically said if any one attacks one of the countries then they attack everyone in the pact. The original members of the NATO were Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United States. -
Alger Hiss case
Alger Hiss a former State department official was convicted of perjury. He was a Soviet Union spy and during World War Two and served four years in jail. His appearance before HAUC and vehemently denied the charges because they said he didn't even know Chambers. But later they confronted Chambers face to face and said that he knew him but said Chambers was using a different name. -
Soviet Bomb Test
In Kazakhstan the USSR successfully detonates its first atomic bomb and its code name was "First Lightning" and they built bridges and buildings so see how much they affected things. -
Korean War
It began when North Korea invaded South Korea, the United Nations was the principal force and came to help South Vietnam while China helped North Korea. July of 1953 the war ended. -
Rosenberg Trial
The Rosenberg trial began in the New York Southern District federal court. The judge Irving R. Kaufman decided to prosecute the couple that sold nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
Army McCarthy hearings
McCarthy was aggressive and interrogated communists suspects. He turned his investigations to army security but the army charged him with using "improper influence to win preferential treatment for a former staff member" the members name was David Schine. After all of this happened his political career was over. -
Geneva Naval Conference
The Geneva Naval conference in 1927 was a gathering or meeting of the US, Great Britain, and Japan. They talked about making joint limitations to their naval capacities. The conference failed because they all didn't come to an agreement and the naval arms race kept going. -
Warsaw Pact
It was inspired by West Germany and it entrance into the NATO in 1955. After World War One and Two Germany coming back into military power scared the Soviet Union. It was named Warsaw because it was signed in Warsaw. The Soviet Union and seven of its European Satellites signed the Warsaw pact treaty. -
Hungarian Revolution
It was a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian peoples Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. The defeat of the Hungarian revolution was one of the darkest parts in the war. On the day it all started the Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy announced the invasion to the nation in a broadcast stating that "Are troops are fighting. The government is in its place." -
U2 incident
An internal diplomatic crises when the union of Soviet Socialists Republics also known as the USSR shot down an American U-2 plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot named Frances Gary Powers. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was forced to admit to the Soviets that the CIA had been flying spy missions over the USSR for several years. The Soviets sentenced Powers to ten years in prison -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Fourteen Cuban exiles launched what later became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the South coast of Cuba. On January 1st 1959, a Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista , the nation’s American-backed president. For the next two years the Cia tried to castro from power. -
Berlin Wall
The communist government of the German democratic Republic (GDR) built a barbed wire fence and or concrete wall separating East and West Berlin. The purpose of the wall was to keep people living in the western part from entering east Germany and undermining the socialist State. The wall was taken down November 9th 1989 when the East Germany communist party announced citizens of GDR could cross the boarder when ever they wanted -
Cuban Missle Crises
Leaders of the US and Soviet Union were in a very intense 13 day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation on nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba which was 90 miles from the US shores. President John Kennedy lets Americans know about the presence of the missiles and told everyone that his decision was to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and that the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this threat to national security. -
Assassination of Diem
The day before he was taken by soldiers with his brother he was overthrown by his South Vietnamese government. After his death many people in South Vietnam were happy but his death caused political chaos in the Nation. American became more involved and tried to help South Vietnam and beat communist rebels. -
Assassination of JFK
John F Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States and got shot in Dallas Texas -
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf revolution which authorized President Johnson to take any measures that he believed were necessary to retaliate and promote the peace and security in Southeast Asia. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation rolling thunder was a strategic bombing campaign. The US military aircraft attacked targets in North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. All the bombing it did was intended to put pressure on North Vietnam's communist leaders and reduce their ability to wage war against South Vietnam who were supported by the US. Operation rolling thunder was the first American attack on North Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
IN January 70,000 Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive which were fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. The Communist leader of Vietnam planned the offensive to rebel among the South Vietnamese and encourage the US to scale back from Saigon. North Vietnam won with the Tet Offensive. -
Assassination of MLK
MLK was a civil rights activist and clergyman. He was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot on the second floor on the balcony of the hotel. He was a non-violent person and was a Christian. -
Assassination of RFK
President Robert F. Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles after receiving the California Presidential primaries in the 1968 election. He was shot several times by a 22 year old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan and died a day later in a hospital. Kennedy was perceived as the only man in American politics to unite people. His killer spent the rest of his life in prison. -
Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia which is also known as operation Danube was a very scary attack. There were 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks that invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the country of communism. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics but they could not hold the Soviet tanks. -
Riots of Democratic Convention
In 1968 the Democratic convention lead to a tense national mood. On April 4, MLK was assassinated and riots broke out throughout the country. Thousands of antiwar civilians went to Chicago’s streets to protest the Vietnam War and was supported by the top Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey. -
Election of Nixon
Nixon was defeated by Kennedy bur eight years later he defeated Hubert H. Humphrey and was elected for president in 1968. Two years after losing to Kennedy, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost the campaign against Edmund Brown. Most political observers believed that Nixon’s political career was over, but he recovered his political standing in the Republican Party to announce his candidacy for president. Between the conservative elements of his party and the liberal wing Nixon won. -
Kent State
President Nixon was on TV and announced the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers to expand the Vietnam war effort. This contributed majorly to massive protests on college campuses. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters set fire to the ROTC building. The governor of Ohio sent 900 National guardsman to the campus. -
Nixon Visits China
President Nixon takes step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China by traveling to Beijing for a week of talking. Nixon’s historic visit began the slow process of the re-establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China. -
Ceasefire in Vietnam
A cease-fire started at 8 a.m., Saigon time it was midnight on January 27, Greenwich Mean Time.When the cease-fire went into effect Saigon controlled about 75 percent of South Vietnam’s land and 85 percent of the population. The South Vietnamese Army was well equipped because of last minute deliveries of U.S. weapons and continued to get U.S. aid after the cease-fire. The CIA estimated North Vietnamese presence in the South at 145,000 men. It began on time and both sides violated it. -
Fall of Saigon
The North Vietnamese army went to the outskirts of Saigon. The South Vietnamese President General Duong Van Minh. He said "We are here to hand over to you the power in order to avoid bloodshed." There was very small resistance and it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of their revolutionary leader named Ho Chi Minh who died several years before. -
Reagan Elected
Ronald Reagan was a former California governor and actor. He served as the U.S President from 1981 to 1989. He was a republican governor 1967 to 1975 he was a great communicator and won popular vote two terms in a row. He died at age 93 when Alzheimers took over his body. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
The cold war came to an end across Eastern Europe. East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. At midnight that day, he said that citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners went to the wall, drinking beer and chanting “Tor auf!” (Open the gate!). At midnight they all went through the checkpoints. -
SDI announced
The strategic Defense initiative also known as the (SDI) or star wars was a plan under Ronald Reagan to trick the Soviet Union. It was a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. Many of the ideas had lasers in them so that is why it was named star wars plus it was in space. -
Geneva conference with Gorbachev
For the first time in eight years the leaders of the Soviet Union and the U.S hold a summit conference meeting in Geneva. President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev produced no earth-shattering agreements. The meeting was good for the future, as the two men talked for a long time and personal talks develop a sincere and close relationship. -
'Tear down this wail' speech
President Ronald Reagan talked to the people of West Berlin. The Berlin wall was built by communists in 1961 to keep the Germans from escaping communist-dominated East Berlin into Democratic West Berlin. This was one of Reagan's most popular speeches.
