Iron Curtain Marshall plan Truman Doctrine Brinkmanship

Korea George Marshall Foreign policy Being on the brink

Vietnam 1948 Harry Truman of war
policies Quarantine European recovery Greece Containment
Brinkmanship program Turkey Arms race
Containment 1947
Arms race Containment Cuban missile
National Defense Middle East
Turkey crisis ‘ missiles in
George kennan
Cuba turkey
1946
Cuban missile crisis
Harry Truman
Peace Commerce
Iron curtain

Detente Salt 1 Reagan doctrine

Star wars
President Jimmy carter Strategic arms Union address
Strategic defense initiative
USSR relations limitations act Reagan administration
Ronald reagan
Containment 1969 anti-Communist insurgents
Soviet ICBM’s
Anti war Nixon
Internal threats
Brezhnev
 presidents
Truman Eisenhower John F Kennedy
National security act Stalin dies Fedel Castro
Price control is lifted Robert Kennedy
Marshall plan passed McCarthyism
Department of health
Us recognizes Israel Department of education Berlin
Atomic bomb Chance for peace speech Vietnam
Submerged lands act Bay of pigs
Hiroshima Cuban missile crisis
Rosenbergs executed
Potsdam conference
Germany surrenders
Nagasaki
 Presidents

Lyndon johnson Richard Nixon Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan

Medicare Warn Viet Cong Natural gas act Sends budget to Congress
Civil rights act Withdraw from S. Vietnam Sec. of state travels to POTUS Reagan is shot
Space race Post office goes public Middle East Reagan recovers
Taft hartley act Cutting government Addresses nation on Soviet grain embargo lifted
Sputnik personnel energy Cutting taxes
Suez crisis Nixon doctrine Speakers at notre dame Military buildup
Vietnam rejects peace Meets Israeli prime minister Negotiate with Soviet Union
Aim to end segregation Coal strike busted Sanctions in Poland
Private sector survey
Gas tax increase
 homefront
2nd red scare HUAC
McCarthyism House of Representatives Hollywood 10 Blacklist
Anarchism Committee Directors HUAC
Political radicalism Invest price citizens Refused to answer propaganda
Communist witch hunts questions Motion picture industry
Spent time in prison Communist ties
 Home front
McCarthyism Julius Ethel Rosenberg Interstate highway Duck and cover
Supervision Convicted as spy’s for system Preparation after the soviets
Fear the Soviet Union and Federal aid highway dropped their first bomb. Fear in
Joe McCarthy were executed by the act of 1956 America caused these practices
government Eisenhower
Speedy safe travel
Military control
Evacuation
 Conferences
Casablanca Teheran
Yalta Potsdam
War conference Stalin needed help
Franklin Roosevelt’s Debate
Outgrowth Peace with Germany
Stalin’s free elections Stalin
Winston Red army
Winston Churchill Churchill
Churchill Stalingrad
Truman
1943
Atomic bomb tested in
America
 Germany
The Berlin Blockade
The Battle of Berlin, East/West Germany East/West Berlin The Berlin
was an attempt in
designated the Berlin As a consequence of Event/Concept. Airlift was the
1948 by the Soviet
Strategic Offensive the defeat of Nazi Description. Yalta response of the
Union to limit the
Operation by the Germany in World Conference. Near Western Allies
ability of France,
Soviet Union, and War II, Germany was end of World War II; to the Soviet
Great Britain and the
also known as the cut between the two USSR and western Union shutting
United States to
Fall of Berlin, was the global blocs in the powers divided down access to
travel to their sectors
final major offensive East and West, a Europe into East and Berlin
of Berlin, which lay
of the European period known as the West; Soviets within
theatre of World War division of Germany. controlled East. Iron Russian-occupied
II. Germany was Curtain. East Germany.
stripped of its war
gains

Berlin Wall
During the early years of the Cold War, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through
which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West. In response, the
Communist East German authorities built a wall
 Conflicts and Crisis
North Korea’s Bikini Atoll One of the Chinese Civil War U2 incident
Communist army crossed important events during Second Taiwan Strait In May 1960 when the Union
the 38th Parallel and his presidency was Crisis the ccp and kmt of Soviet Socialist Republics
invaded non-Communist Operation Crossroads at China divides (USSR) shot down an
South Korea. As Kim Bikini Atoll and the atomic China unities to fight American U-2 spy plane in
Il-sung's North Korean bomb. Thej U.S. japan. Soviet air space and
army, armed with Soviet government tested 20 captured its pilot, Francis
tanks, quickly overran nuclear weapons here Gary Powers. Confronted
South Korea, the United between 1946 and 1958. with the evidence of his
States came to South nation’s espionage,
Korea's aid. General President Dwight D.
Douglas MacArthur, who Eisenhower was forced to
had been overseeing the admit to the Soviets that the
post-WWII occupation of U.S. Central Intelligence
Japan, commanded the Agency (CIA) had been
US forces which now flying spy missions over the
began to hold off the USSR for several years.
North Koreans at Pusa
 Conflicts and Crisis
Cuban missile Thirteen days
Che
Fedel Castro Bay of pigs crisis President Kennedy
Che Guevara
Cuban leader Fidel The Bay of Pigs Arms race Assassination
became part of Fidel
Castro (1926-2016) Invasion was a failed Turkey Cuban missile crisis
Castro's efforts to
established the first military invasion of Cuba 1962
overthrow the Batista
communist state in Cuba undertaken by Spying
government in Cuba.
the Western the Central Quarantine
Hemisphere after Intelligence Agency Blockade
leading an overthrow Brinksmanship
of the military Containment
dictatorship of
Fulgencio Batista in
1959.
 Conflicts and Crisis
Gulf of Tonkin
President John F. incident
Gulf of Tonkin Soviet Invasion of
Kennedy was The Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution The Gulf of Afghanistan. The Soviet
assassinated on Resolution Union intervened in
Nov. 22, 1963, by a Tonkin Resolution
authorized support of the Afghan
lone gunman, Lee authorized President
President Lyndon communist
Harvey Oswald. Mr. Lyndon Johnson to “take
Johnson to “take all government in its
Oswald fired three all necessary measures
necessary conflict with
bullets from a to repel any armed
measures to repel anticommunist Muslim
nearby building, attack against the forces
any armed attack guerrillas during the
striking Mr. of the United States and
against the forces
Kennedy and Gov. to prevent further
of the United States
John B. Connally Jr. aggression” by the
and to prevent
of Texas.w communist government
further aggression”
of North Vietnam. It was
by the communist
passed on August 7,
government of
1964,
North Vietnam. It
was passed on
August 7, 1964
 Conflicts and Crisis
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iranian students seized the Iran contra affair
embassy and detained more Ronald reagan
than 50 Americans, ranging Irangate
from the Chargé d’Affaires to Anti Communist insurgency
Nicaragua
the most junior members of
Drug Trade
the staff, as hostages. The
Iranians held the American
diplomats hostage for 444
days. While the courage of
the American hostages in
Tehran and of their families
at home reflected the best
tradition of the Department of
State, the Iran hostage crisis
undermined Carter’s conduct
of foreign policy.