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Cold War

Cold War. By president. Truman. Note X and George Kennan Containment Truman Doctrine (Turkey and Greece) Marshall Plan (rejected by Soviets) Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift (Operation Little Vittles) NSC – 68 and National Security Act China falls in 1949 NATO vs. Warsaw Pact

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Cold War

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  1. Cold War By president

  2. Truman • Note X and George Kennan • Containment • Truman Doctrine (Turkey and Greece) • Marshall Plan (rejected by Soviets) • Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift (Operation Little Vittles) • NSC – 68 and National Security Act • China falls in 1949 • NATO vs. Warsaw Pact • Hungarian Coup • Beginning of McCarthyism • Korean War

  3. Eisenhower • Sputnik, NDEA, NASA and Space Race • Coups in Guatemala and Iran • Suez Crisis- Eisenhower Doctrine • Military Advisors to Vietnam • Ends Korea • End of McCarthyism • Cuba falls in 1959 • Kitchen Debates • U-2 Incident

  4. Kennedy • Bay of Pigs • Alliance for Progress • Peace Corps • Brinkmanship • Cuban Missile Crisis • Vietnam Escalation • Berlin Wall (1961) – I am a Berliner • Limited Test Ban Treaty

  5. Johnson • Vietnam • Gulf of Tonkin • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Tet Offensive • “Grandma’s nightshirt” • My Lai Massacre • War correspondents • Anti war demonstration • Democratic National Convention of 1968 • Jane Fonda • 1969 Conscription Act (draft) • Moon landing • Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty

  6. Nixon • Vietnamization • War Powers Act (74) • Kent State shootings • Détente • Kissinger • Ping Pong Diplomacy • Nixon visits China • Nixon visits USSR • Nixon Doctrine • SALT I

  7. Ford • SALT II

  8. Carter • Iran Hostage Crisis • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Charlie Wilson’s War) • SALT II

  9. Reagan • Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! • SDI (Star Wars) • Iran Contra Affair • Libya Bombing (Unholy Trinity) • Reagan Doctrine • Arming of Mujaheddin against Soviets in Afghanistan

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