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Yalta Peace Conference
The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years, with the Cold War dividing the continent, Yalta became a subject of intense controversy. -
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Postdam Conference
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The Marshall Plan
Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe to help rebuild after the war. -
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Berlin Blockade
A major and national crisis of the cold war where the soviet union blocked the western allies railways, roads and canal accesses to sectors of berlin. -
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Berlin Airlift
Allies brought supplies into blocked off germany through 300,000 air drops of supplies. -
U.S MIlitary Desegregated
But when President Harry Truman signed an executive order on July 26, 1948, calling for the desegregation of the military, it was the beginning, not the end, of the fight for African-Americans to fight alongside white troops. -
Soviet Union Test First Atomic Bomb
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Chinese Revolution of 1949
On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). -
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Korean War
United States Fought The Korean War -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration
Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War. -
McCarthy Hearings
The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Brown V. Board
This unanimous decision handed down by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954, ended federal tolerance of racial segregation. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmett Till was brutally murdered for flirting with a married white woman. -
Eisenhower sent troops to vietnam
U.S Advisors sent to vietnam to train south vietnamese soldiers. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
"Are you going to stand up?" the driver demanded. Rosa Parks looked straight at him and said: "No." Flustered, and not quite sure what to do, Blake retorted, "Well, I'm going to have you arrested." And Parks, still sitting next to the window, replied softly, "You may do that." -
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
he money for the Interstate Highway and Defense Highways was handled in a Highway Trust Fund that paid for 90 percent of highway construction costs with the states required to pay the remaining 10 percent. -
Little Rock Central High School Crisis
heir enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Sputnik I
Russia Launched a spacecraft named sputnik russian for "Sateilite" was launched at 10:29 p.m. moscow time -
John F. Kennedy Elected President
Youngest man ever elected, First catholic, to handle responsibilities of america's Cold War diplomacy.