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Joe McCarthy's
He was a republican for the state Wisconsin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy -
Marshall Plan
The marshall plan help get the Europeans going again. The plan sent 15 billion dollars to the war torn countries to help them rebuild. This idea was the brain child of SOS George C. Marshall, it was estimated to last four years. This also showed that by being not communist is paying off to the free European countries. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin airlift was the allies was to avoid the soviet road blocks. The road blocks have been cutting off the allies from being able to get supplies into Berlin. At first the air lift was not very good but over time the allies had it down to a science. Towards the end they were having planes land every 7-10 minutes which brought in the food needed to sub stain the people. -
NATO
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Soviet atomic weapons test
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Korean War
The Korean war was a war between north Korea and south Korea but each side was backed by a superpower. The north Koreans was back by the USSR while the south Koreans were backed by the USA. This war began when north Korea invaded the south and pushed them all the way back. Due to the attack NATO sent a force of men to help the south Koreans. The force was mostly made up of Americans and they pushed them all the way back to the Korea Chinese boarder but they ended up at the 38th parallel again. -
Rosenberg Trails
They were Soviet Union spies that were US citizens. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried and sentenced to death.
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US first hydrogen bomb
Ivy Mike is the code name. It was 3x bigger then a atom bomb. it was detonated on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll -
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President Dwight D Eisenhower
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Joe 4 Soviet Hydrogen Bomb
the bomb is about equal to 400 kilotons of TNT. It was bigger than the atomic bomb used to cause the japs to surrender. This bomb lead to huge amounts of military build up on both sides of the iron curtain. But most of the soviet unions economy was going to these super weapons which led to their people continuing to starve.
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The Murder of Emmett Till
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The Murder of Emmett Till
He was a 14-year-old boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till -
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Nikita Khrushchev
During his time in power he tried to make the people in the USSR happier. This meant undoing a lot of policies that Stalin put in, this time is call de-Stalinisation. During his time of power the first satellite was launch and there were a lot of revolutions put down. One of these include the Hungarian uprising which was crushed very fast by the soviet union. Towards the end of his time he was forced to retired due to pressure put on him by opposing parties. -
The Hungarian Uprising
During the cold war the soviet puppets states started to reach for their freedom. One of these revolutions started in late October when the people of Hungary didn't want to be under the thumb of communism. The revolt was a quick one but in the short amount of time they were able to over turn the whole government. They took their flags and cut out the communist symbol in the middle. However after aliitle bit of time the soviets invaded again and took Hungary back and NATO did nothing to stop it. -
Launch of the sputnik one
The sputnik 1 was the first ever satellite launch in the world. This was very bad for the capitalist governments because it was a sign of success for the soviet powers. This also meant their rocket technology was evolving faster as well which mean they were able to get better weapons. Link text -
Castro takes control of Cuba
Castro with some of his supporters lead an violent revolution. After the revolution he was made prime minister and started to convert the Cuban island to a communist state. -
U2 plane incident
During the cold war there was a lot of spying on each other. While an american high altitude U2 plane was flying over soviet territory. This brought up a lot of concern on both sides, the soviets didn't like the fact that the Americans where flying in their air space and the Americans were concerned the soviets would hold the pilot as a hostage and or they might start a war. The pilot was used by the soviets to get one of their spies back in a prisoner exchange. -
John F. Kennedy Presidency
John F. Kennedy was elected in 1961 and assassinated 11/22/1963
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First Man in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man in space he was a Soviet aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1
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Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an invasion of the communist island of Cuba. The invasion force was made up of Cuban exiles and with American help with supplies and training. The invasion failed mostly because a lot of US support died down during the days leading up to the invasion Link test -
Cuban Missile Crisis
This crisis was between the US and mainly the USSR. During these couple of days the soviets and the Americans were less than hours away from total destruction. Due to Cuba being taken over by a communist regime the soviets saw a good place to hold their medium range missiles. The main reason behind this was to retaliate against the US missiles in turkey. In the end of it all the missiles in Cuba were recalled and the missiles in turkey were recalled as well. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a civil right activist who was active from the beginning. He was a veteran of world war II who was in the army. He lived in Mississippi where he served as field secretary for the NAACP. He was assassinated by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwath. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
For men from the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church four girls were killed and injured 22. Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11) where the four girls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing -
the murders of james chaney andrew goodman and michael schwerner
The three civil workers where all reported missing over a short period of time. They were believed to have been taken by the KKK and other racist groups. They were shot to death by the clan and then buried. -
First American Troops Arrive in South Vietnam
There were 3500 US army troops they were apart of the 173rd airborne brigade
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html
