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Berlin Airlift
First major crises of the Cold War. The Berlin Airlift was the effect of the Berlin Blockade. Where the soviets blocked off all ways to deliver goods to Berlin. The Berlin Airlift came to light after they decided to fly in goods by plane in order to bypass the blockade. Photo: https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-airlift-70-years-on-when-occupiers-became-protectors/a-44373437 -
Marshall Plan
American plan to help Western Europe where America donated billions of dollars to help Western European economies after WWII Photo: http://www.afsa.org/helping-europe-help-itself-marshall-plan -
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Joe McCarthy's Senate Career
McCarthy was a republican U.S. Senator. In 1946 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and in 1950 he claimed 205 communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. In 1952, he became chair of the Senate's subcommittee on investigations. For two years he investigated a slew of government departments and interrogated witnesses, this is known as the Red Scare. On December 2, 1954, McCarthy was one of the few presidents to ever me censured. -
NATO
Stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.It is an alliance consisting of 29 sates from North America and Europe. Photo: https://www.geo.tv/latest/184525-nato-condemns-threatening-russia-after-weapons-show -
Soviet Atomic Bomb Project
Named RDS-1, this was the first successful soviet nuclear weapon test; apart of the soviet atomic bomb project. Photo: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/hiroshima-70th-anniversary-timeline-terror-6205314 -
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The Korean War
The war began when soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army crossed 38th parallel. This is what started this Cold War. American troops had entered the war to support South Korea. After back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting died down and the war stalled. In 1953, the Korean War ended. Around 5 million soldiers and citizens passed. In the end, the Korean peninsula is still divided as a result of this war. https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war -
Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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First US Hydrogen Bomb
As part of Operation Ivy, the first US Hydrogen bomb was set off on this date. Its codename was Ivy Mike and it was detonated on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll. -
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Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower was a republican president. First, he was the first Supreme Allied Commander of (NATO) in 1951. Then, in 1952 he was elected U.S. president. He served two terms before retiring in 1961. -
Murder of Emmett Till
This case has a lot of different versions as many of the witnesses have different accounts of what occurred. The story most people agree on is that a young black boy named Emmett Till was accused of flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, at a store, and rumor spread until it reached her husband, which is where things went downhill. Roy Bryant took Emmett from his home later that night. They severely beat him and shot him in the head before disposing his body into a river. -
First USSR Hydrogen Bomb
RDS-37 was the name of the first USSR Hydrogen bomb that was detonated on this date. The detonation occured in Atomgrad, Semipalatinsk, Chagan Lake -
Hungarian Uprising
This was a revolution against the Hungarian Republic and its policies. The Soviets took the victory and the revolution ended in November of the same year. -
Sputnik 1
This was the first artificial space satellite, conducted by the Soviet Union. It completed a total of 1440 orbits before falling back into the atmosphere about two months later. -
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union during the very peak Cold War as premier. He focused on pursuing a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West but, the Cuban Missile Crisis started after he planted nuclear weapons near Florida. While he could be authoritarian in his own ways, he defeated a revolt in Hungary and approved the construction of the Berlin Wall. -
Castro Takes over Cuba
After the overthrow of Batista in 1959, Castro obtained military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States started to be against Castro's government and tried to remove him by assassination, economic blockade and other ways, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. All of them being unsuccessful. Sources:
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
Fidel Castro overthrew General Fulgencio Batista in Havana. For two years, the U.S. State Department the CIA tried to throw Castro out of leadership. Then in 1961, the CIA launched a huge invasion in Cuba using 1,400 American-trained Cubans who had fled Cuba after Castro took over. But this was unsuccessful. The American army was outnumbered by Castro’s army, and they surrendered after less than a day of battle. Sources: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/bay-of-pigs-invasion -
U2 Spy Plane Shot Down
The Soviet Air Defense Forces shot down the U2 Spy plane while it was in Soviet Territory performing photographic aerial reconnaissance. The plane was operated by Francis Gary Powers. The plane crashed near Yekaterinburg and the pilot parachuted to land safely with no injuries. -
First Man In Space
Yuri Gagarin (a soviet) was aboard spacecraft Vostok 1 when he became the first man in space. During this trip, he also became the first person to orbit the planet. The entire trip lasted exactly one hour and 48 minutes. Sources: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The U.S. and the Soviet Union had a standoff over nuclear missiles in Cuba, extremely close to the coast of the U.S. Kennedy said he wanted to put a naval blockade around Cuba. He also said the U.S. was prepared to use military force if they had to. People were terrified because they thought were going into a nuclear war. This never happened because the U.S. agreed to Khrushchev’s offer to stop the missiles if the U.S. agreed not to invade Cuba. -
Murder of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a black american civil rights activist born in Mississippi. Because of his fame, he was a target among the KKK. Many times he was followed home by police cars and even had to train his children what to do if a shooting or bombing were to ever occur around them. He was shot in the heart after coming home from an NAACP meeting on June 12, 1963. The person who shot him, Byron De La Beckwith, was consequently convicted of murder. -
Murder of Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner
This case is about the abduction and murder of 3 activists. All three of them were apart of the Congress of Racial Equality. A group of nine men were the masterminds behind the murders. The lynch mob shot the men initially and then set them on fire to make sure they were dead. Then, all three men were buried. The only charge SOME of the men got, were conspiracy to deprive the three men of their civil rights. -
First American Troops to Arrive in South Vietnam
U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam. Becoming the first American troops to infiltrate Vietnam. In the same month, President Johnson began a campaign for the bombing of targets in North Vietnam and the Ho Chi Minh Trail during Operation Rolling Thunder. Sources:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-timeline
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Loving vs. Virginia
This case was a decision made by the supreme court to remove the ban on interracial marriage.
