America and the Soviet Union After World War 2

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America and the Soviet Union After World War 2 Cold War America and the Soviet Union After World War 2

The Late 1940’s July 17-Aug. 2, 1945 Potsdam Conference Sept. 2 Ho Chi Minh Declares a free Vietnam March 5, 1946 Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech March 12, 1947 Truman Doctrine enacted June 5, 1947 Marshall Plan June 1948 Formation of West Germany Aug. 1949 First Soviet Nuclear bomb detonated The Late 1940’s

1940’s Continued June 24, 1948-May 1949 Berlin Blockade and Airlift April 4, 1949 Formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 1940’s Continued

1950 Congress passed legislation against Americans suspected of being communist sympathizers, Truman vetoed the measure Senator Joseph McCarthy produced a list of over 200 communists in government positions As a result of his investigations over 2000 government workers lost their jobs with little or no proof of communist sympathies He fell from power due to the Army- McCarthy Hearings McCarthyism

Cold War goes Hot in Korea June 25, 1950 North Korean communist forces invade South Korea July 5, 1950 US Marine divisions make stand at Pusan Perimeter Sept. 15, 1950 General Douglas MacArthur lands troops at Inchon causing communist forces to retreat Nov. 25, 1950 Chinese communist forces intervene March 18, 1951 US forces retake Seoul for the last time and establish a line on the 38th Parallel Cold War goes Hot in Korea

The next two years sees trench warfare similar to WW1 along the 38th Parallel July 27,1953 UN and North Korea agree to divide North and South Korea For the US, this seemed to prove that intervention against the communist works Korean War Ends

Warsaw pact Warsaw Pact formed in 1955 Oct. 1956 Soviet troops crush anticommunist revolt in Hungary Nov. 1, 1957 Sputnik April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became first man in space Aug 1961 Berlin Wall built Warsaw pact

Bay of Pigs Invasion fails to depose the communist regime of Fidel Castro Cuban Missile Crisis results in a tense 13 day standoff over Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba Cuba 1961-1962

Space race and the calming of tensions 1968 US launches the first manned orbit of the Moon with Apollo 8 July 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon 1972 Détente Nixon visits the Soviet Union and China 1972 SALT Treaty signed Space race and the calming of tensions

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