Recent Event Highlights: Kennedy Becomes President, Soviets Get The Hydrogen Bomb, Eisenhower Becomes President, U.S. Gets The Hydrogen Bomb, Truman Becomes President, and 14 more...
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John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) and surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U2_spy_plane_incident
Sputnik was a series of robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union. The first of these, Sputnik 1, launched the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. It also demonstrated the viability of using artificial satellites to explore the upper atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik
The Warsaw Treaty (1955–91) is the informal name for the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact. The treaty was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. It was established at the USSR’s initiative , in Warsaw, Poland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact
The purpose of the operation was to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, the democratically-elected President of Guatemala. The U.S. began to worry about the growth of Communism there due Jacobo Arbenz's policies. By recruiting a Guatemalan military force the CIA's operation succeeded in eliminating the democratic government and replacing it with a military junta headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Guatemala
The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran for the U.S. on 16 January 1979. The CIA is caught unaware. Because the Shah had neutralized or assassinated all of his moderate political opposition, when the Shah was finally overthrown in 1979, it was by extreme Islamic fundamentalists. Former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner had poor intelligence of the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran as, "It was a big gap in CIA coverage." Consequently the CIA engaged in numerous covert operations in an attempt to maintain control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_in_Iran
The 82-ton device, nicknamed “the Sausage,” created a radioactive mushroom cloud 60 miles across and a crater over a mile wide. At more than 10 megatons, the blast exceeded the power of all the high explosives detonated in both world wars.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/how%E2%80%99d-the-russians-get-the-h-bomb/
A five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower
The "Ivy Mike" shot was the first full test of a Teller-Ulam design "staged" hydrogen bomb, with a yield of 10 megatons. It was not a deployable weapon, however — with its full cryogenic equipment it weighed some 82 tons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_States
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and People's Republic of China (PRC), with air support from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with the Communist Party of China in control of mainland China, and the Kuomintang retreating to Taiwan. On 1 October 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China. "Communist China" or "Red China" were two of the names of the PRC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China
The Soviets (Russians) tested their first A-Bomb in 1949.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-explode-atomic-bomb
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Blockade
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the primary program, 1947–51, of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine
The target of Hiroshima was a city of considerable military importance, containing Japan's Second Army Headquarters, as well as being a communications center and storage depot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Curtain
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman
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