Cold War Events
for people like me who forget the simplest things!
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- Lead the us forces above the 17th parallel,"wrong man at the wrong time"
- Douglas MacArthur
- Students wanted the right for conversation in the classroom : lead to this
- Student Revolutions (1968)
- the theory that if one country fell to communism they all would
- domino effect
- French merchants
- Bourgeoisie
- Intercontinetal Ballistic Missle
- ICBM's
- Leader of West Africa and the contengious peopple party, his goal was to free Guana from Britain
- Nkrumah
- Destalinization;; in 1956 a secret speech.
- Khrushchev's Secret Speech
- created NASA and wanted to land on the moon by 1970
- J.F. Kennedy
- US had missiles in Turkey so the Soviets put some in Cuba, resovled with the US saying they will take ours out and they would. But US's werent taken out til a couple years later.
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- stopped us from firing nuclear missiles, and having a nuclear war
- MAD ;; massive retailiation
- authors of detente
- Kissinger and Kennedy
- What were some of the new products that "quickly altered the pace and nature of human life"?
- Computers, tv, jet planes, new surgical techniques, etc.
- Lead the Salt March, and Non-violent protests. Didn't believe in partitioning countries
- Gandhi
- wrote "Feminine Mystique" ;; offers an alternative role of females. calls for economic and sexual independence of females
- Friedman
- Churchill, Stalin, FDR
- Big three
- Community before individualism
- Neo-Marxism
- March 1948, independence of this Jewish state
- Isreal
- idea that people can be satisfied by buying things or consumer goods
- Consumerism
- female participation in the workplace declined, men came home from the war. Lead to this
- the baby boom
- National Liberation Front, in 1954 used guerilla warfare to liberate their homeland
- FLN