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China's Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between forces loyal to the Kuomintang. The war ended in 1950. -
WWII Ends
The Axis Powers surrendered unconditionally. The Allies excepted Germany's surrender about a week after Hitler committed suicide. -
Mutually Assured Destruction / MAD Plan
A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by teo or more opposing sides. -
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization established to promote international co-operation. It was also a replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict. -
Berlin Airlift
The Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the number of people in West Berlin. Over 200,000 flights were flown in one year. -
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
The former British Prime Minister: Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Churchill’s speech was considered one of the opening announcements for the beginning of the Cold War. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named after the Secretary of State George Marshall. Marshall proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe in 1947. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization - an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. -
USSR's first Atomic Bomb test
A test site at Semipaltinsk in Kazakhstan, the USSR successfully detonates the first atomic bomb. Code name: 'First Lightning' -
Korean War
Conflict between Communist and Non- Communist forces in Korea. -
H - Bomb
A weapon deriving a large portion of its energy from the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotepes. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As the 34th President, Eisenhower obtained a truce with Korea to ease the tensions of the Cold War -
Stalin's Death
Died of a massive heartattack. -
End of Korean War
Armistice ended the Korean War. -
SEATO
The Southeast Asia Treaty was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among 8 communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Vietnam War
The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. They viewed the conflict as a colonial war, fought initially against forces from France and then America, as France was backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from US military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
Sputnik
First artificial Earth satelite. The Soviet Union launched it into an ellipitcal low Earth orbit to broadcast radio pulses. -
When did Fidel Castro take over Cuba
Fidel Castro established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere after leading an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades. -
Francis Gary Powers
An American Pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency U-2 spy plane was shot down, causing the 1960 U-2 Incident. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs known in Latin America as Invasión de Playa Giron was a failed military invasion of Cuba. -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from Easr Berlin. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. -
JFK Assassination
Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. -
Lyndon Johnson
In the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as John F. Kennedy's running mate, was elected Vice President. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President. -
Richard Nixon
Although Nixon initially escalated the war in Vietnam, he subsequently ended the U.S. involvement in 1973, along with the military draft. -
NASA's first Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. -
SALT - First Strategic Plan Limitations Treaty
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Gerald Ford
As the 38th President, Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, marking a move toward détente in the Cold War. With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States and he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The invasion of Afghanistan by troops from the Soviet Union began the war. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War -
U.S Boycott of Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
Miracle on Ice
The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Before his presidency he served as the 33rd Governor of California and was also an actor from 1937 to 1964. -
Star Wars - Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address.
