Post on 11-Jan-2016
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism
UNITED NATIONS *World organization to keep
peace *Met in San Francisco *UN Security Council US
Great BritainFrance
USSRChina
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE**
US would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
TRUMAN Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan Berlin Crisis/Berlin Airlift Korean War/*limited war/*fired MacArthur (quote) McCarthy/McCarthyism Rosenburgs/Alger Hiss H-Bomb CIA NATO Red China Israel became a nation--198 HUAC Israel became a nation
C O L D W A R – US VS USSR
Cold War—The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and the USSR
Capitalism(democracy) vs. Communism Eastern Europe/Satellite nation/Eastern Bloc “Iron Curtain” Containment—US policy of blocking (or
containing) the spread of communism Truman Doctrine—**TURKEY & GREECE**
US would provide economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism
H-bomb
EISENHOWER Warsaw Pact Korean War/ceasefire Brinkmanship/MAD/Civil defense drills Secretary of State—John Foster Dulles Suez Canal—Egypt--Nasser, Israel, UN Eisenhower Doctrine Sputnik/Explorer I/NDEA Hungarian uprising U-2 incident Cuba and Castro Domino theory Military-Industrial Complex
KENNEDY Flexible Response Peace Corps Bay of Pigs Invasion Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Hot Line
EISENHOWER Class Cartoon Baby Boom; Mom at home; TV dinner Highway Act 1956/interstate, suburbs Levittown Sun Belt-sunny states of s & sw RockNRoll-Elvis Presley Billy Graham Brown v. Brd of Ed/Rosa
Parks/LRCrisis
KENNEDY Television Debate with Nixon New Frontier Attorney General-Robert (Bobby)
Kennedy Peace Corps John Glenn—1st American to orbit
earth Assassination—11/22/63 in Dallas,
TX *Lee Harvey Oswald; Warren Comm
LBJ Great Society/War on Poverty Kennedy’s VP/Election of 1964 Civil Rights of 1964/Voting Rights of
1965 Medicare—medical insurance for
over 65 Medicaid—medical insurance for
welfare Robert Weaver—1st black Cab Sec-
HUD Vietnam War—Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution Warren Court
President Lyndon Johnson chooses between two pens to sign legislation that created the Medicare and Medicaid health care programs
NIXON Détente-relaxing of tension between
US/USSR Woodstock-outdoor rock concert in Aug
‘69 Communist China visit Visit to USSR/Brezhnev-leader of USSR Henry Kissinger-NSA then Secretary of
State Spiro Agnew-VP who resigned Gerald Ford-new VP (appointed)
NIXON (cont) SALT-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
(treaty) ERA-Equal Rights Amendment/Roe v.
Wade Neil Armstrong-1st man on moon; quote Watergate-1st president to resign; quote Chappaquiddick-incident involving T.
Kennedy EPA-Environmental Protection Agency
F O R D “I’m a Ford, not a Lincoln” VP was Nelson Rockefeller 1st non-elected (appointed) pres South Vietnam fell to
communism Pardoned President Nixon Bicentennial celebration Khmer Rouge-communists in
Cambodia
C A R T E R From Georgia; family VP was Walter Mondale Iran Hostage Crisis-52;Teheran;
Shah;Attempt Camp David Accords-Israel&Egypt;
leaders Invasion of Afghanistan by USSR
1980 Moscow Olympics boycott Panama Canal Treaty
1) Becomes Panama’s in 2000 2) US & Panama keep canal neutral
Three Mile Island almost nuclear disaster