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35 Cards in this Set
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April 1945
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San Francisco Conference
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March 1946
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"Iron Curtain" Speech by Winston Churchill [describe the division between Western powers and the area controlled by the Soviet Union. As such the speech marks the onset of the Cold War]
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1947
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George C. Marshall Secretary of State
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1948
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Marshal Plan
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1949
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NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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1950 (3events)
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Mao Zedong makes China a communist nation
North Korea War attacks South Korea McCarran Internal Security Act (stop communist) |
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1951
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Edward Teller and Stanislow Unam build the first Hydrogen Bombs.
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1952
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The Hydrogen Bombs were tested
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1954
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Brown v. Board of Education
Earl Warren (segregation in schools) |
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1956
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Highway Act- Build a interstate system
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October 4, 1957
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Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball
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1961...
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unknown
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1962...
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unknown
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November 22, 1963
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In Dallas Texas The assassination of John F. Kennedy
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1964...
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unknown
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1965...
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unknown
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1968...
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unknown
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April 4, 1968
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shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor.
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1972...
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unknown
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April 30, 1975
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The war in Vietnam ended today as the government in Saigon announced its unconditional surrender to North Vietnamese forces.
The President, Duong Van Minh |
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1979
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Iranian Hostage Crisis
[took over embassy in Tehran, had 66 hostages] |
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1986
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Lebanon Magazine mention Reagan was selling weapons to Iran an exchange for Iran freeing hostages.
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1989
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. Communist in Germany failed. The Berlin Wall went down.
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1991
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Soviet Union becam independent self governing states. Russian Parliament by Boris Yeltson
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September 11, 2001
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Terrorist attack
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Type of Power, where you have aid in defeating Germany, bombs, home ground and stability of the economy?
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Super Power
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Unknown
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"Leave it to Beaver"
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the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
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Cold War
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Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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Soviet Union
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Soviet politician and dictator.A disciple of Vladimir Lenin, he served in minor party posts and was appointed to the first Bolshevik Central Committee
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Joseph Stalin
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Babyface, wrote the "Iron Curtain" speech
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Winston Churchill
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who led his nation through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to turn back a communist invasion of South Korea.
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Harry Truman
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led the United States through two of the greatest crises of the 20th century: the Great Depression and World War II. He wrote the Great Deal
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FDR
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US, Britain, China And Russia met in 1944, they are?
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United Nations
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Poland
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