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Yalta Conference
It was the WW2 meeting of the big three, President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill from the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization. However, it became a subject of the issue of the Cold war and eventually helped the American dream to evolve because it caused many people from communist countries to move to America with the dream of freedom and wealth. -
Truman Doctrine
It was an American foreign policy announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman. The purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. Historians often use Truman's speech of it to date the start of the Cold War. It evolves the American dream since it made America to support their allies and exert their influence on the whole world which caused people to think America is the rich and powerful country. -
Marshall plan
It was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II which cost more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent. It led to people respect the United States and later shapes the American dream that so much money is in America so everyone can earn a lot of money in America. -
The RDS-1
The RDS-1 is also known as the First Lightning which was detonated at Kazakhstan after top-secret research and development as part of the Soviet atomic bomb project. It was the Soviet Union's first nuclear bomb that came out earlier than western countries predicted. They thought the Soviet Union would take at least more than 10 years of investigation. It caused the cold war quicker and more intense which later made more people move to America to achieve the American dream, wealth and freedom. -
The Korean War
A war between North Korea and South Korea that was caused by the tension of the cold war between communism countries and western countries. They ended up stop fighting by the Korean Armistice Agreement after the casualty of 5 million people and destroying most factories and industries in Korea. Because of that, the Korean became extremely poor and had a horrible condition to get money which caused that many Koreans move to America to chase the American dream to get money and survive. -
The Vitenamese War
It is considered a proxy war of the Cold war from some US perspectives. The Việt Cộng, also known as Front national de libération du Sud-Viêt Nam or the National Liberation Front, a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, initiated a guerrilla war against the South Vietnamese government. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was the protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama by Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person. It caused African Americans to speak up for their rights and a Supreme Court to take care of racial segregation in the south. Through this, the American dream evolved once again that people came to America expecting everyone gets treated equally regardless of race. -
Apollo 11
It was the spacecraft that brought Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American to the moon. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface. It did not only ended the Space Race effectively between the United States and the Soviet Unions but also made people think that everything is possible in America which becomes a trait of the American dream. -
Watergate Scandal
It was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States by five men at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and President Richard Nixon's administration's subsequent attempt to cover up his involvement. Attempt to resist its probes led to a constitutional crisis and he ended up putting down the post. It evolved the American dream that everything is possible in America but not in an illegal way. -
Paris peace Accords
It ended direct U.S. involvement in Vietnam lasted some 19 years which finished the Vietnam war. Soon, American soldiers withdrew and North Vietnam took over. Also, it ended the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, resulting in all three countries become communist states in 1975.
