Historic Timeline
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Обновлено: 19 апр 2019
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GI bill: This act provided veterans of the second world war funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.Executive Order 9981: Is an issued on July 26, 1948, by president Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination in the US armed forces.National Interstate & Defense Highways Act: is a network of freeways or expressways in the united states.Iron Curtain Speech: Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union's policies in Europe and declares, "From Stettin in the Baltic to trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent.Long Telegram: the American charge d'affaires in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state.Marshall Plan: A program by which the united states gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War 2.Sputnik: each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.First man in space: On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.!st US man in space: NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961 aboard his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7.1st space walk: In March 1965, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, beating out American rival Ed White on Gemini 4 by almost three months.Domino Theory: A domino effect or chain reaction is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a chain of similar events. The term is best known as a mechanical effect and is used as an analogy to a falling row of dominoes.Building of Berlin Wall: Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off (by land) West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.Gulf of Tonkin incident: The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox 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 Tonkin.Периоды
McCarthyism: a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under senator Joseph McCarthy.Brown vs Board of Education: Was a a landmark decision of the U.S. supreme court in which the court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.Truman Doctrine: First expressed in 1947 by us president Truman in a speech to congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the cold war.Korean war: Was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on June 25, 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following series of clashes along the border.First man on the moon: Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.Castro Revolution in Cuba: The Cuban Revolution (Spanish: Revolución cubana) was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro's revolutionary 26th of July Movement and its allies against the authoritarian government of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. ... 26 July 1959 is celebrated in Cuba as the Day of the Revolution.Bay of Pigs: The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961.Embargo of Cuba: The United States imposed an arms embargo on Cuba on March 14, 1958 during the armed conflict between rebels led by Fidel Castro and the Fulgencio Batista regime.Cuban Missile Crisis: The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, 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.Berlin Airlift: A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall) (see also Berlin wall), had cut off its supply routes.Vietnam War: The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American 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 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub.L. 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964, was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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