Introducing 

Prezi AI.

Your new presentation assistant.

Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.

Loading…
Transcript

United Nations is Formed (1945) -

Marshall Plan (1947) -

Hollywood Ten (1947) -

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) (1938) -

Chinese Civil War (1927) -

Alger Hiss Spy Case (1948) -

Berlin Blockade (1948) -

Israel Becomes a Nation (1948)

Sputnik Launch (1957)

Korean War (1950)

McCarthyism (1950)

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954)

Launch of Freedom 7 (1961)

Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Vietnam War (1955)

Assassination of JFK (1963)

Shooting Down of U2 (1960)

Yuri Gagarin in Orbit (1961)

Suez Canal Crisis (1956)

Warsaw Pact is Formed (1955)

Hydrogen Bomb is Tested by US (1954)

MacArthur is Relieved of Command (1951)

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (1951)

Eisenhower Elected to First Term (1952)

Warren Commission Report (1963)

Construction of Berlin Wall (1961)

Fidel Castro Takes Over Cuba (1959)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization is Formed (NATO) (1949)

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is Formed (SEATO) (1954)

Hollywood writers and directors who were thought to be radials and called before HUAC; they refused to cooperate and were sentence to short prison terms.

The House of Representatives had came up with this committee to investigate the full range of radical groups in the United States, including Fascists and Communists.

In June 1945, representatives from 50 countries, including the United States, met in San Francisco, California, to establish a new nation called the United Nations.

This plan was for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II announced by the United State Secretary of State George C. Marshall.

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Chinese Nationalist Party, governing the republic of China, and the communist party of China. The war began on April 1927.

The name critics gave to Joseph McCarthy's tactic of spreading fear and making baseless charges.

Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. He was accused of being a spy for the Soviets and prepares to testify to HUAC in 1948.

The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.

Freedom 7 spacecraft on May 5, 1961 to become the first American in space, three weeks after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had carried out thefirst orbital spaceflight.

The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.

The thirteen days referred to as the Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other in October 1962, during the Cold War.

The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (supported primarily by the United States of America, with contributions from allied nations under the aegis of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).

Yuri was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

The Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1's success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War.

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United Statesfrom 1953 until 1961. Prior to that he was a five-star general in the United States Army. During World War II, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States.

he Battle of in Biên Phu was the climactic confrontation of theFirst Indochina War between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future ofIndochina at Geneva.

The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership ofSoviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.

The Suez crisis, was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw.

The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.

The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963,by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

Following the adoption of a resolution by the General Assembly of the United Nations on November 29, 1947, recommending the adoption and implementation of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine, on 14 May 1948 David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared Israel a state independent from the British Mandate for Palestine.

The Rosenbergs were convicted of passing military secrets to the Soviets, including information from Ethel's brother, who was an employee on the Manhattan Project. They received the death sentence and were executed in 1953. The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. civilians to be executed for espionage.

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008.

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

The South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, and other defenses.

Learn more about creating dynamic, engaging presentations with Prezi