International Timeline
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 19 abr 2019
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Created byAndrew Sanchez
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IRON CURTAIN SPEECH--minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., when he said of the communist states, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”"LONG TELEGRAM"--Kennan responded by sending a lengthy 5,500-word telegram from Moscow to Secretary of State James Byrnes outlining a new strategy for diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.TRUMAN DOCTRINE--President Harry S. Truman presented His message, known as the Truman Doctrine, asked Congress for $400 million in military and economic assistance for Turkey and Greece.MARSHALL PLAN-- President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948.KOREAN WAR-- The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border.SPUTNIK--History changed when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.1st MAN IN SPACE--Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.1st U.S MAN IN SPACE--NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off in a Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space.1st SPACE WALK--Alexei Leonov, who was born in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1934. He was one of the twenty Soviet Air Force Pilots to be chosen for the first cosmonaut group.1st MAN ON MOON--Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle.GI BILL-- the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, was signed into law. It was created to help veterans.EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981--issued by President Harry S. Truman; It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.MCCARTHYISM--Senator Joseph McCarthy sent this telegram to President Truman two days after claiming that he had identified members of the Communist party working in the U.S. State Department. At a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia.NATIONAL INTERSTATE--National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, was enacted when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law. (got the idea from Germany)BROWN VS BOARD OF EDUCTAION-- civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.CASTRO REVOULTION--The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.BAY OF PIGS--The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA. The United States sought the elimination of Castro for his insistence on communism.EMBARGO OF CUBA--The United States imposed an arms embargo on Cuba during the armed conflict between rebels led by Fidel Castro and the Fulgencio Batista regime.CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS--The Cuban Missile Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.DOMINO THEORY--President Eisenhower was the first to refer to countries in danger of Communist takeover as dominoes.BERLIN AIRLIFT--The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.BUILDING OF BERLIN WALL--Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin.GULF OF TONKIN INCIDENT--was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging, involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.VIETNAM WAR--was an undeclared war in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.GULF OF TONKIN RESOLUTION--The United States Congress approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose “communist aggression” in Southeast Asia.
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