mayra's Timeline 2019j
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Updated: 20 Apr 2019
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iron curtain speech: Winston churchill delivers speech where he first uses the phrase "iron curtain"to describe the soviet union influence in europe."A shadow has fallen...an iron curtain has decended across the continent(Europe).Truman Doctrine: U.s forgein policy to deal with the spread of communisim across the world.Marshall Plan: named for secretary of state georgia Marshall who in 1947 proposed that the united states provide conomic assistance t restore econmic infrastructure.Spuntik: When the soviet succesfly launched spunltk1 Man in space: Yuri alekseyevich gararin was the first man in spaceLong Telegram: By sending a lengthy 5,500 word telegram from Moscow to secretary of state james Byrnes outlining a new stratagey for diplomatic relations with the soviet union .Cold War: A time when USA and USSR faced of in a series of competition across the world1 US man in space: The first Us man in space was Alan B.Shepard he made it into space and back in 23 days after russian cosmonaut Yuri Gararin.First space walk:Performed by the soviet cosmonaut Alexel Leonvo who spent 12 minutes outside the Voskhood 2 spacecraft.Korean War:The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. As a product of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Korea had been split into two sovereign states in 1948.Golf Of Tonkin resolution:authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam.by the U.S. Congress after an alleged attack on two U.S. naval destroyers stationed off the coast of Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America’s full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War.Vietnam war:The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally.The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet UnionGulf of Tonkin Incident: was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved either one or two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of TonkinBuilding Of Berlin Wall: This wall was constructed by the German democratic republic the wall cut of all lands,it surrounded East Germany but soon government officials opened it.Berlin Air lift :he Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.Domino Theory: This was if one country became a communist country then the neighbhooring country's would also follow through with what they're dongCubin Missile crisis : President John F. Kennedy announces that spy planes have discovered soviet missile bases in Cuba. This became a huge crisis because the missiles were capable of killing thousands and ruining lots of things.Embargo of Cuba: This would provide cuba with food ,oil,and medicine.Bay Of Pigs:Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista, the nation’s American-backed president.officials at the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to push Castro from power but eventually they were out numbered by Fidel's troops and surrendered.Castro Revolution in Cuba: This replaced the government with a revloutionary socialist state.
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