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Point 4 of Truman´s Inaugural Address
Truman wants to send money to poorer, smaller countries to help them develop and insure that they will not turn to communism. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea and started a war between the two. The US and UN helped South Korea, the USSR and China helped North Korea. -
Firing of Douglas MacArthur
President Truman fired MacArthur after he had made public statements that contradicted the administrations policies. -
ANZUS Pact
Formally Pacific Security Treaty, security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States that was signed in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 1, 1951, for the purpose of providing mutual aid in the event of aggression and for settling disputes by peaceful means. It came into force in 1952. -
The Nuclear Race
The US explode their first Hydrogen device and the USSR and other countries begin to race to see who can get the better explosives first. -
Atoms for Peace
US decides to share uranium with the United nations because they wanted to relieve the tension in the race for nuclear weapons. -
The End of the Korean War
They sign the armistice and South and North Korea are still separated and have about the same amount of land that they had started with in the beginning. -
Iranian Coup D'état
The United States sponsored coup d'etat in Iran of August 19, 1953, has emerged as a critical event in postwar world history. The government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq which was ousted in the coup was the last popular, democratically oriented government to hold office in Iran. -
Eisenhower's New Look policy
The New Look was the name given to the national security policy of the United States during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources. -
Massive Retaliation
President Eisenhower adopted a foreign policy of massive retaliation. Massive retaliation is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which declares that the US could or would respond with the maximum number of nuclear weapons if the US or allies was attacked with nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union or any of its allies. It was designed to deter the Soviets from the use of nuclear weapons. -
Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference of 1954 was a meeting of the "Big Four" foreign ministers of the United States (John Foster Dulles), Britain (Anthony Eden), France (Georges Bidault), and the Soviet Union (Vyacheslav Molotov), on January 25-February 18, 1954. -
Guatemalan Coup D'état
The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–1954. Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala. -
SEATO
In September of 1954, the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. -
Open Skies Proposal
Eisenhower suggests that the US and USSR could share info about their advancements and watch over each other to make sure that neither is not up to anything bad. -
Conference at Geneva
The Geneva Summit of 1955 was a Cold War-era meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Held on July 18, 1955, it was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. -
Atomic Energy Agency
The UN created this agency to promote peaceful use of the atom. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
Space Race
The US and USSR fight to dominate spaceflight technology. -
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 as an agency charged with overseeing all non-military aerospace programs. Previously, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) handled rocket research and other aerospace activities, but the Soviet launch of Sputnik made it apparent that the United States needed to focus its efforts in order to avoid being left behind in the space race. One of NASA's first goals was putting a man into space -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro overthrows American supported Cuban dictator. -
Khrushchev Visits
Eisenhower invites Khrushchev to the US in hope to create better relations with the USSR.