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Nationalist Government established in Taiwan
-Mao Zedong went to the Island of Taiwan and make their own capital
-Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek want to establish a new government in Taiwan
-Pose a diplomatic problem in America
-Truman administration support Chaing's government -
Ho Chi Minh Declares Vietnam Independence
-Ho Chi Minh proclaimed Vietnam independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam
-French seized Southern part of Vietnam and bomb the North because it is a communist
-Viet Minh launched an attack back
-U.S. help french
-Peace negotiation end up in division of Vietnam -
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
-Talked about Germany and a line or curtain between East and West of Germany -
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French Indo-China War
-A problem in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the involvement of France
-French conquered Vietnam, Vietnam want independence but France oppose it, so Vietnam start a warfare and won
-Because of the war that Vietnam won, Cambodia was liberated and allowed communist, then the South Vietnam invaded to destroy the communist in Cambodia
-Laos was in controlled of France and there was shifts in government -
Truman Doctrine
-The Speech is about not be providing Greek any military or economic assistance because of the Greek Communist Party -
Creation of the CIA
-To get rid of or find any communist in the U.S. -
Marshall Plan
-European recovery plan
-Provide aid to West Germany
-Distribute aid to 16 nations
-To stop the spread of communism -
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Berlin Airlift
-Germany was divided in half, U.S, Britain, and France take the west and USSR take the east of Germany
-Soviet blocked roads, rails, and water so that the Allied could get any of the supplies
-Started to airlift foods and supplies to the Allied air bases in west Germany -
NATO Created
Member: U.S., France, Britain, Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Luxembourg, Canada, Portugals, Iceland
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
-To help increase American influence -
Soviet successfully test their first atomic bomb
-Small atomic bomb
-The U.S. knows that the Soviet have an atomic bomb, the U.S. wants an upgrade -
People's Republic of China established
-Mao Zedong proclaimed the existence of the People's Republic of China
-Mao Zedong wanted to create a socialist society, and later on world communism
-The U.S thought that couldn't help China because it was so corrupted and that they had gone soft on communism -
Alger Hiss put on trial
-Accused of being a spy
-charged for perjury -
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The Korean War
-The Korean war is between North and South Korea
-The North invaded the South to unify into a communist country
-The U.S help out the South, they do not want Korea to be a communist while USSR sent supplies -
America successfully tests the hydrogen bomb
-Soviet successfully build their atomic bomb the U.S. wants to build a better one
-Based on nuclear fission
-The first hydrogen bomb created by the U.S. tested on Elugelab Island -
Stalin dies
-Died from a big heart attack
-When he dies a new power rose
-A lot of people were happy when he died -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg put on a trial
-Accused of being a spy that pass secret information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet -
U.S.-Led Coup in Iran
-U.S. want to overthrow a foreign government during peace time
-To control over Iran oil -
Creation of KBG
-Established under Nikita Khrushchev
-To spy on the U.S.
-Protect the leader of the Communist Party -
Domino Theory Introduced
-President Eisenhower talked about how communism was taking over like a domino
-Communist are taking over in Southeast Asia
-Communist taking neighboring countries -
Vietnam Divided Along the 17th Parallel
-In an effort to solve a problem in Asia, representative meet up in Geneva
-Talk about how Ho, a communist in Vietnam would make Vietnam a communist country, and the U.S. was thinking to divide it up
-The North would be a communist, the South would be an anti-communist -
Creation of SEATO
-To prevent Communist getting in the region
-South East Asian Treaty organization -
Warsaw Pact formed
Members: Soviet, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria
-European Satellite
-To help any member that is being attacked, and bring their military together
-Orbit around West Germany, Which the Allied force is helping out -
Open Skies Plan
-Since the U.S. and Soviet can't agree with any decision, the U.S. proposed that to exchange map
-The map has every military bases information, and they would use an airplane to surveillance the military -
Geneva Summit
-The leader of the U.S., France, Britain and Soviet talk about ending the cold war
-The issues are disarmament, uniting Germany, and increase economic
-Soviet agree on unifying Germany and the U.S. suggest that they both revealed their military sites, the Soviet did not agree to it -
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Hungarian Uprising/US Response
-Protester wanted a more democratic political system and freedom
-Hungarian leader Nagy push toward not having a one-party ruler
-Nagy said that they want to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact
-Soviet tanks come into Hungary to stop what Nagy said
-A street fight broke out and many Hungarian were either injured or dead, and the protest was put down
-The U.S did but just a statement of sympathies -
Suez War
-Egyptian leader Nassar, nationalize the Suez Canal
-The Soviet gave money and arms
-Britain was angry, Britain ask for help from France and Israel to take back the canal
-Israeli hit first then Britain and France joined in and took back the canal
-USSR threaten the U.S with missiles, if Britain, France, and Israel don't back down, they later backed down -
Eisenhower Doctrine
-A lot of tension in the Middle East
-Egyptian leader is an anti-Western nationalist and close to the Soviet Union
-The Egyptian leader took control of the Suez Canal, so France, Britain and the Israeli force were about to attack Egypt
-Eisenhower than proposed a plan, to help out people in the Middle East
-The Doctrine includes- new programs of economic, military cooperation with the neighboring region, and to use the U.S. troops to help protect territories and political independence -
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Nikita Khrushchev takes over USSR
-Took over when Stalin dies
-Deliver a "Secret Speech" about Stalin and try to de-Stalinization
-Help out Cuba by putting a nuclear weapon in Cuba, facing Florida
-The building of the Berlin Wall
-Allow freedom to the Communist party -
U-2 Incident
-U-2 Spy plane flew over USSR
-An American Spy plane have been shoot down
-When Soviet confront the U.S President, the President denied it, but then later admit to it -
NFL/Viet Cong Created in Vietnam
-National Font to liberate the South Vietnamese
-Viet Cong is a Vietnamese Communist and want unify the North and South Vietnam to become communist
-Viet Cong received weapon and support from the North