Cold war

  • United Nation

    an organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations had faild
  • China's Civil War

    wo-front conflict but also made the European conflict a higher priority than the fight with Japan
  • atomic bomb

    The terrain and smaller size of Nagasaki reduced destruction of life
  • Truman Doctine

    The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech
  • Marshall Plan

    was the American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WW2
  • State of Israel

    Immediately after the end of British Israel was formed
  • NATO

    An alliance of countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949.
  • cuban recolution

    Castro made his move. For a revolution to succeed, he needed weapons
  • korean war

    between North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea, which lasted from 1950 to 1953 and was the first Cold War military action
  • guatemala

    US included the Guatemalan Labour Party to the International Communist Conspiracy
  • SEATO

    South East Asia Treaty Organizatio
  • Sebator McCarthy

    Became president
  • warsaw pact

    a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states
  • south vetnam

    go Dinh Diem defeats Emperor Bao Dai in national referendum
  • VIETNAM WAR

    April 1975 marked the end of the war
  • hungarian uprising

    Soviet forces launched a major attack on Hungary aimed at crushing
  • eisenhower doctrine

    refers to a speech by President Dwight David
  • Bay of PIgs

    a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista
  • berlin wall

    November 9, 1989
  • cuban missile crisis

    an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union
  • nuclear test ban treaty

    President Kennedy signs the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
  • gulf of tonkin

    a body of water spliting japan and north vietnam
  • tet offensive

    the Communist North Vietnamese troops and the Viet Cong staged a major offensive against the cities and towns
  • nixon vists china

    He was the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China
  • gorbachev

    is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party
  • reagan and gorbachev sign treaty

    With fervent calls for a new era of peaceful understanding
  • cold war ends

    Since this time in 1991, Russia and the United States have grown closer