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The Cold War

Berlin Crisis. NSC-68. Mao. Vietnam. Korea. The Cold War. Detente. McCarthy. Stalin. "X" Article. Truman Doctrine. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. STALIN. Winston Churchill. “V” for Victory. Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. European Recovery Plan.

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The Cold War

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  1. Berlin Crisis NSC-68 Mao Vietnam Korea The Cold War Detente McCarthy Stalin "X" Article Truman Doctrine

  2. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili STALIN

  3. Winston Churchill “V” for Victory

  4. Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt

  5. European Recovery Plan On November 29, 1948, President Truman met with the top leaders of the Marshall Plan--George Marshall, Paul Hoffman , and Averell Harriman. or Marshall Plan

  6. Truman signs Econ. Recovery Act 1948

  7. Soviet opposition to the Marshall Plan. Can Stalin Block It?

  8. The Berlin Blockade Truman v. Stalin

  9. Operation Vittles, as the airlift was unofficially named, began on June 26 when USAF C-47s carried 80 tons of food into Berlin to help maintain a minimum level of existence. Berlin Airlift

  10. General Curtis LeMay . . . the man who created the framework for the Berlin Airlift.

  11. Lt. Gail S. Halvorson, "Uncle Wiggly Wings,” originator of the candy drop to Berlin children. Operation Little Vittles

  12. HUAC Nixon

  13. Alger Hiss at the UN conference with Truman Hiss

  14. Mao proclaims the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.

  15. Chiang Kai-shek Taiwan

  16. Truman and Douglas MacArthur

  17. McCARTHY

  18. Atomic spies The Rosenbergs Sing Sing

  19. Eisenhower and Dulles greet . . . Ngo Dinh Diem Washington, 1957

  20. After the war, Bao Dai briefly joined ranks with Ho Chi Minh and the Vietminh, only to flee into exile in Hong Kong and France from 1949-1955. He returned to Vietnam to rule under French control until he was ousted by Diem in a rigged election in 1954.

  21. Hungarian politician Imre Nagy (1895 -1958) first became prime minister in 1953, at the time revolution broke out in Hungary. Executed in 1958. Hungary Imre Nagy

  22. In 1989, with the collapse of communist Hungary, they dug up and found the skeletons of the rebels and reburied Imre and his fellow supporters. This most extraordinary funeral monument is full of strange symbolism - there is a column that is precisely 1956 millimetres deep. Nagy

  23. Kitchen Debates Moscow Khrushchev Nixon 7-24-59

  24. Nixon: "This is the newest model. This is the kind which is built in thousands of units for direct installation in the houses. Any steel worker could buy this house. They earn $3 an hour. This house costs about $100 a month to buy on a contract running 25 to 30 years."

  25. Khrushchev:You think the Russian people will be dumfounded to see these things, but the fact is that newly built Russian houses have all this equipment right now. Moreover, all you have to do to get a house is to be born in the Soviet Union... Yet you say that we are slaves to communism.

  26. The debate continues.

  27. Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the USA U-2 spy plane which crashed in Russia, May 1960, appearing before the US Senate, holding a model of a U-2 plane. He was exchanged by the Russians for Soviet spymaster ABEL. Powers

  28. Nikita Khrushchev, “We will bury you.” LBJ, “we do not intend to beburied.”

  29. 1961 Cuban leader Fidel Castro looks out from a tank during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

  30. Berlin Wall and Brandenburg Gate

  31. As Kennedy paid tribute to the spirit of Berliners and to their quest for freedom, the crowd roared with approval upon hearing, “Ich bin ein Berliner.” 1963 JFK Berlin

  32. Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Robert McNamara, and John Kennedy

  33. Ngo Dinh Diem Ho Chi Minh

  34. General Maxwell Taylor meets with Diem in Saigon.

  35. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning flesh. As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him. Thich Quang Duc Self-immolation June 11, 1963

  36. LBJ watching news on three-TV console L B J

  37. William C. Westmoreland, Commander of Military Assistance Command--Vietnam (MACV) from 1964-1968, authorized "search & destroy" missions to lure the VC and NVA into battle where US firepower could annihilate them.

  38. U.S.S. Liberty (June 8, 1967) Attacked by Israeli fighter planes near Sinai, 34 American sailors killed.

  39. The hole left by an Israeli torpedo. Israel claims they mistook our ship for the out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir.

  40. 1968 Tet

  41. William Calley My Lai

  42. Prague Spring (1968)

  43. On January 23, 1968, the USS PUEBLO was attacked by North Korean naval vessels and MiG jets. Eighty-two surviving crew members were captured and held prisoner for 11 months.

  44. Richard Nixon holds a news conference concerning Vietnam. 1969

  45. Olga Korbut 1972 Munich Olympics Smile for détente.

  46. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger holds a press conference. 1972

  47. Nixon in China, February 1972, with Chou En Lai Great Wall

  48. President Carter entertains Deng Xiaoping Xiaoping with Nixon at WH state dinner

  49. 1980 Olympic Boycott After Soviet tanks rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, President Carter called for the U.S. team to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  50. BOYCOTT "Misha" the Russian Bear, Mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games "Sam" the Eagle, Mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games

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